Who would have thought that a series of Jack the Ripper-style murders would happen at the same time as a new play about the infamous Whitechapel murderer was playing on the London stage? And what if the actor,  Richard Sand (Hansjörg Felmy), who plays Jack becomes a suspect in an example of the ultimate in Method acting?

Director Edwin Zbonek and writer Robert A. Stemmle have adapted another Bryan Edgar Wallace story, this reveals to us thatthe actor may have been insane and an alcoholic in the past, but does that make him a killer? Isn’t he trying to settle down with Ann Morlay (Marianne Koch)? I mean, who wouldn’t want to? So why is he maybe killing sex workers?

Producers Releasing Corporation released this in the U.S. along with The Phantom of Soho. There’s not just a great poster, I’ve also found the pressbook.

This comes at the time when the Krimi and the Giallo were trading back and forth. You can see the influence of Blood and Black Lace, as well as the exploitation film expectation that there had to be nude female flesh. Regardless, it works and creates quite the picture, which has a great killer reveal at the end.

This is part of the Terror In the Fog box set and has extras including a new introduction by genre film expert and Video Watchdog founder Tim Lucas and audio commentary by Kim Newman and Stephen Jones. You can get it from MVD.