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7.6/10   1,530 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Derek Marlowe (writer) and
David Wickes (writer)
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Release Date:
21 October 1988 (USA) more
Genre:
Plot:
During the latter half of 1888 a notorious serial killer nicknamed Jack The Ripper terrorises the East... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Won Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 4 nominations more
NewsDesk:
Mr. October: Dani Filth
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User Reviews:
Catch Me If You Can more (41 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Michael Caine ... Chief Insp. Frederick Abberline

Armand Assante ... Richard Mansfield
Ray McAnally ... Sir William Gull
Lewis Collins ... Sgt. George Godley
Ken Bones ... Robert James Lees
Susan George ... Kate Eddowes

Jane Seymour ... Emma Prentiss
Harry Andrews ... Coroner Wynne E. Baxter

Lysette Anthony ... Mary Jane Kelly

Roger Ashton-Griffiths ... Rodman
Peter Armitage ... Sgt. Kerby

Desmond Askew ... Copy Boy
Trevor Baxter ... Lanyon
Mike Carnell ... Newsvendor
Ann Castle ... Lady Gull
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Additional Details

Runtime:
182 min (2 parts)
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Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:16 | Australia:M | West Germany:16 | UK:15 (original rating) (1988) | UK:15 (re-rerating) (2003) | UK:PG (re-rating) (2000)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Armand Assante's stand-in died during shooting. more
Goofs:
Anachronisms: Just after Sir Charles Warren leaves the yard for the Lord Mayor's Parade, Superintendent Thomas Arnold remarks to Abberline, "He's offered to resign." In fact, Charles Warren resigned the day before the murder of Mary Kelly. more
Quotes:
[Sgt Godley wakes up a hungover Chief Inspector Abberline]
Godley: Chief Superintendent Arnold wants to see you.
Abberline: Arnold? Does he know where I am?
Godley: No, but he's about the only policeman in Scotland Yard who doesn't!
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9 out of 9 people found the following review useful.
Catch Me If You Can, 25 October 2002
9/10
Author: J. Wellington Peevis from Malltown

Who cares if its deductions are accurate? Everyone's dead and we'll never know for certain. What matters is this story delivers you a culprit which owing to the official unsolved status, I didnt believe I would see until the last second. Very well done TV fare. If I have one criticism, it is the filming quality. On the interior and set shots, the camera work and lighting cast those pinkish hues off of phony scrubbed brickwork that betray a backlot and might confuse you into thinking you are watching an old Gunsmoke rerun. But rest assured, the story is powerful enough to make this quite insubstantial for a normal person. The performances are excellent. Michael Caine would be good doing tampon commercials, and the rest of the mostly English cast are all equally excellent. There are some truly frightening sequences. Asante's conversion into Mr. Hyde is the stuff nightmares are made of. The suspense at the climax deftly handled. Its quite long, and drags only a bit 3/4 through. But this is well worth anyone's time who has an interest in this most infamous of criminal investigations. Which puts it up just about everyone's alley doesnt it?

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