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May 1974 (USA) moreTagline:
Nothing can stop the Killer with a Blood Lust for Ladies - Naked and Dead.Plot:
A mutilating knife-killer haunts the small Southwest-desert town of Mescal. Though most victims have been prostitutes... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Unwashed Elam... moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Jack Elam | ... | Jarrod (Sheriff) | |
| Ruth Roman | ... | Elizabeth | |
| Jeff Cooper | ... | Burns | |
| John Kellogg | ... | Hollyfield | |
| Gene Evans | ... | Hooker | |
| Diana Ewing | ... | Jenny | |
| Derek Sanderson | ... | Lute | |
| Jon Spangler | ... | Seth | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Peter Athas | ... | Travis | |
| Phillip Avenetti | ... | Ramon | |
| Fred Biletnikoff | ... | Horace | |
| Al Hassan | ... | Riley | |
| Pat Herrerra | ... | Nina | |
| Hank Kendrich | ... | Fairchild | |
| Kit Kendrich | ... | Cora | |
| Rob Lien | ... | J. B. Mullin | |
| Greg Little | ... | Amon | |
| Deen Pettinger | ... | Rider #2 | |
| Richard Schaal | ... | Ainalls | |
| Bud Stout | ... | Driver | |
| Norm Tempas | ... | Rider #1 | |
| Brooke Tucker | ... | Myra | |
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Also Known As:
A Knife in the Dark (Europe: English title) (video title)Jack the Ripper Goes West
Silent Sentence (TV title)
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Old Tucson - 201 S. Kinney Road, Tucson, Arizona, USAMOVIEmeter: 
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A bizarre yet watchable cross between a typical oater and a slasher film, KNIFE FOR THE LADIES (or better known as "Jack The Ripper Goes West" on DVD) is actually a fairly entertaining jumble of genres, aided by the one and only Jack "One-Eye" Elam as the town sheriff, a drunken, unwashed, temperamental SOB who loves his rotgut and loves to fight, all of which is exacerbated when a clean-cut private eye comes in from the big city to help the townsfolk stop an unknown murderer bumping off the women. Although the DVD version is obviously edited of some scenes, causing the story to leave gaps as big as the one in Terry-Thomas's smile,the film moves along at a good gallop until the somewhat predictable conclusion.