Joe Mantegna played the lead roles in David Mamet’s House of Games and Homicide.

Jack gains another ally in Sir Charles' wife, Lady Claire (Coral Browne), who hates her husband and befriends Jack just to spite him. The New York Times described it as "fantastic fun" and Variety called it "brilliantly caustic", but the Los Angeles Times called it "snail-slow, shrill and gesticulating" and Newsweek said it was a "sledgehammer satire". Directed by Peter Medak. Peter Medak’s version of Barnes’ 1968 play — about a loony English earl who’s certified insane when he thinks he’s Jesus Christ but normal when he thinks he’s Jack the Ripper — pivots on one of Peter O’Toole’s best performances, bringing together in one movie the rambunctious and psychotic personae of the thesp’s career at that point.

| Rating: 3/4. Even if the relationship chemistries feel weak at times, the main character's struggle never feels false but indeed takes on a mythical quality. Reportedly, when United Artists, its North American distributor, told producer Jules Buck that it would be cutting the film extensively for US release, Buck punched the company's London representative and bought the film back.

The selected filming locations are exquisite and film beautifully. : The Life and Future Times of Jack the Ripper, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Ruling_Class_(play)&oldid=951569181, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Freehold Company and Peter Hulton (joint) for, This page was last edited on 17 April 2020, at 20:04. Next to O'Toole's performance, my favorite element of the film is that it chooses to overtly blur the line between an objective reality and the subjective reality Jack is experiencing by seamlessly sewing the two together when the situation warrants it.

Joe Mantegna played the lead roles in David Mamet’s House of Games and Homicide.

Jack gains another ally in Sir Charles' wife, Lady Claire (Coral Browne), who hates her husband and befriends Jack just to spite him. The New York Times described it as "fantastic fun" and Variety called it "brilliantly caustic", but the Los Angeles Times called it "snail-slow, shrill and gesticulating" and Newsweek said it was a "sledgehammer satire". Directed by Peter Medak. Peter Medak’s version of Barnes’ 1968 play — about a loony English earl who’s certified insane when he thinks he’s Jesus Christ but normal when he thinks he’s Jack the Ripper — pivots on one of Peter O’Toole’s best performances, bringing together in one movie the rambunctious and psychotic personae of the thesp’s career at that point.

| Rating: 3/4. Even if the relationship chemistries feel weak at times, the main character's struggle never feels false but indeed takes on a mythical quality. Reportedly, when United Artists, its North American distributor, told producer Jules Buck that it would be cutting the film extensively for US release, Buck punched the company's London representative and bought the film back.

The selected filming locations are exquisite and film beautifully. : The Life and Future Times of Jack the Ripper, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Ruling_Class_(play)&oldid=951569181, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Freehold Company and Peter Hulton (joint) for, This page was last edited on 17 April 2020, at 20:04. Next to O'Toole's performance, my favorite element of the film is that it chooses to overtly blur the line between an objective reality and the subjective reality Jack is experiencing by seamlessly sewing the two together when the situation warrants it.

Joe Mantegna played the lead roles in David Mamet’s House of Games and Homicide.

Jack gains another ally in Sir Charles' wife, Lady Claire (Coral Browne), who hates her husband and befriends Jack just to spite him. The New York Times described it as "fantastic fun" and Variety called it "brilliantly caustic", but the Los Angeles Times called it "snail-slow, shrill and gesticulating" and Newsweek said it was a "sledgehammer satire". Directed by Peter Medak. Peter Medak’s version of Barnes’ 1968 play — about a loony English earl who’s certified insane when he thinks he’s Jesus Christ but normal when he thinks he’s Jack the Ripper — pivots on one of Peter O’Toole’s best performances, bringing together in one movie the rambunctious and psychotic personae of the thesp’s career at that point.

| Rating: 3/4. Even if the relationship chemistries feel weak at times, the main character's struggle never feels false but indeed takes on a mythical quality. Reportedly, when United Artists, its North American distributor, told producer Jules Buck that it would be cutting the film extensively for US release, Buck punched the company's London representative and bought the film back.

The selected filming locations are exquisite and film beautifully. : The Life and Future Times of Jack the Ripper, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Ruling_Class_(play)&oldid=951569181, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Freehold Company and Peter Hulton (joint) for, This page was last edited on 17 April 2020, at 20:04. Next to O'Toole's performance, my favorite element of the film is that it chooses to overtly blur the line between an objective reality and the subjective reality Jack is experiencing by seamlessly sewing the two together when the situation warrants it.

Joe Mantegna played the lead roles in David Mamet’s House of Games and Homicide.

Jack gains another ally in Sir Charles' wife, Lady Claire (Coral Browne), who hates her husband and befriends Jack just to spite him. The New York Times described it as "fantastic fun" and Variety called it "brilliantly caustic", but the Los Angeles Times called it "snail-slow, shrill and gesticulating" and Newsweek said it was a "sledgehammer satire". Directed by Peter Medak. Peter Medak’s version of Barnes’ 1968 play — about a loony English earl who’s certified insane when he thinks he’s Jesus Christ but normal when he thinks he’s Jack the Ripper — pivots on one of Peter O’Toole’s best performances, bringing together in one movie the rambunctious and psychotic personae of the thesp’s career at that point.

| Rating: 3/4. Even if the relationship chemistries feel weak at times, the main character's struggle never feels false but indeed takes on a mythical quality. Reportedly, when United Artists, its North American distributor, told producer Jules Buck that it would be cutting the film extensively for US release, Buck punched the company's London representative and bought the film back.

The selected filming locations are exquisite and film beautifully. : The Life and Future Times of Jack the Ripper, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Ruling_Class_(play)&oldid=951569181, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Freehold Company and Peter Hulton (joint) for, This page was last edited on 17 April 2020, at 20:04. Next to O'Toole's performance, my favorite element of the film is that it chooses to overtly blur the line between an objective reality and the subjective reality Jack is experiencing by seamlessly sewing the two together when the situation warrants it.