Patricia Cornwell: Stalking the Ripper
- Episode aired Oct 30, 2002
- Not Rated
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Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell attempts to prove that Walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper.Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell attempts to prove that Walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper.Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell attempts to prove that Walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper.
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Paul Ferrara
- Self - Director of Forensic Science, Virginia
- (as Dr Paul Ferrara)
Anna Gruetzner Robins
- Self - Art Historian
- (as Dr Anna Gruetzner Robins)
Walter Sickert
- Self
- (archive footage)
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Written by Colin Greenwood, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Phil Selway and Thom Yorke, Paul Lansky and Arthur Kreiger
Performed by Radiohead
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Case Closed
There is little doubt in my mind that Patricia Cornwell is one of the foremost writers of this or indeed any other era. Her books have consistently brought joy and enlightenment to millions and I see her celluloid outings as a continuation of this. In her books, the brilliant yet troubled Kay Scarpetta and her dealings with the brilliant, yet troubled FBI agent Benton Wesley and her talented, yet disturbed niece Lucy are never short of riveting and this dramatic tension was evident in her dogged pursuit of the Ripper. In my opinion, the reason why there is such widespread confusion about Cornwell and even dissent as to her true merits is that people fail to understand that she needs to be viewed purely as a comic writer. Her hackneyed literary offerings have never been anything short of hilarious, all the more so given the overwhelming self importance with which she writes, but it is the screen that allows her comic genius take flight. Cornwell's musings on the case, including her destruction of an innocuous looking painting in an effort to 'unmask' the killer are pure genius. What is best though, is the one page advertisement taken out in national newspapers around the world this year admitting she got it all wrong and ending with the classic line 'I believe this case is very much open'. There are no words to fully describe how amusing P Cornwell is, so I suggest you all watch for yourselves.
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- james-battey
- Oct 30, 2005
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