From Hell (2001)

I just love a good conspiracy. So it seems do a lot of people. Just do a quick search of the internet—plugging conspiracy into Google yields about 47.5 million results—and you will see how popular the word is. Sure, some of them might be dictionary definitions and a few might be part of a band name, but most lead to descriptions of some event where there is one or more persons colluding in something nefarious, devious or complex. This movie brings together some of the more popular ones and tosses them together and pours out a mix in a recipe to excite even the least interested of us in the gossip of persons known to just about everyone. Maybe there are some guys in Paraguay who might be puzzled by a story involving Jack the Ripper, the Masons, the British Royal family, the medical doctors, the British constabulary, the hookers of London, the Irish, the gangs of China, the parents of illegitimate children, the pubs of East London, the Industrial Revolution, the use of anisette and laudanum, chasing the dragon with opium, forensic science, John Merrick, Scotland Yard, English poets and authors, surgery and some poor girl’s mum and dad. Yikes, something for all of us.

Director:  Albert Hughes; Allen Hughes Writer:  Alan Moore; Eddie Campbell; Terry Hayes; Rafael Yglesias Cast:
Johnny Depp -  Inspector Fred Abberline Heather Graham -  Mary Kelly Ian Holm -  Sir William Gull Robbie Coltrane -  Sergeant Peter Godley Ian Richardson -  Sir Charles Warren Jason Flemyng -  Netley, the Coachman Katrin Cartlidge -  Dark Annie Chapman Terence Harvey -  Benjamin ‘Ben’ Kidney		Susan Lynch -  Liz Stride Paul Rhys -  Dr. Ferral Lesley Sharp -  Kate Eddowes Estelle Skornik -  Ada Nicholas McGaughey -  Officer Bolt Annabelle Apsion -  Polly Joanna Page -  Ann Crook Mark Dexter -  Albert Sickert/Prince Edward Albert Victor