JACK THE RIPPER
This was a lavish 2-part (4-hour) drama made by Euston Films for ITV which starred Michael Caine and Lewis Collins as the detectives investigating the Whitechapel murders.
The original ITV broadcast contained a brief topless scene as prostitute Annette (Kelly Cryer) is sitting at her brothel dresser and pulls a black shawl around herself when Sgt George Godley (Lewis Collins) enters the room to question her. This moment opens the scene and modern versions remove the brief topless lead-in and instead begin the scene just after she has covered herself up (so approximately from the final picture in the collage below).
This is a slightly different situation to timeslot-editing in that its editing wasn't done by a TV channel for pre-watershed showing but seems to have been done at source. The edit was present when this was a Daily Mail DVD giveaway in 2008 as part of a Michael Caine Collection (other films of his that contained nudity weren't edited). And more recently the Drama Channel showed it post-watershed and it contained the exact same edit. So chances are it was edited for a commercial DVD release and this is now the only version made available.
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| Kelly Cryer in Jack The Ripper (ITV/1988) |
(The face images come from the Daily Mail DVD and the rest are from an archive clip of the original broadcast)
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