A Knife for the Ladies, also known as Knife for the Ladies, Jack the Ripper Goes West, or Silent Sentence, is a 1974 American western horror film written by George Arthur Bloom, the late Seton I. Miller, the late Robert Shelton, and directed by Larry G. Spangler.
A detective is called to an American Southwest town to investigate a series of murders and is forced to work with a good-hearted, but grumpy sheriff.
Victims[]
- Lettie Mills - Stabbed in the neck and cut across her throat by Elizabeth Mescal with a hunting knife.
- Unnamed Young Girl - Stabbed in the neck and cut across her throat by Elizabeth Mescal with a hunting knife three weeks prior to the film, mentioned.
- Unnamed Victim - Murdered by Curt Bukel prior to the film, mentioned on a wanted poster.
- Nina Torres - Stabbed in the neck and cut across her throat by Elizabeth Mescal with a hunting knife.
- Ramon - Hanged from a tree by Virgil Hooker, Lute Dooland, and Horace Dooland with a rope noose off-screen, body shown.
- Julio Mescal - Died of unspecified causes prior to the film, mentioned.
- Lute Dooland - Shot in the stomach by Virgil Hooker with a revolver.
- Horace Dooland - Shot in the back twice by Virgil Hooker with a revolver.
- Virgil Hooker - Shot in the back by Sheriff Jarrod Colcord with a rifle.
- Myra Lynne - Stabbed in the neck and cut across her throat by Elizabeth Mescal with a hunting knife off-screen, body shown.
- Orville Ainslie - Stabbed in the chest by Elizabeth Mescal with a hunting knife.
- Elizabeth Mescal - Shot in the back by Sheriff Jarrod Colcord with a revolver.
- Travis Mescal - Accidentally stabbed in the chest by his mother's knife when Sheriff Jarrod Colcord shot her and the two of them crashed through the stair railing.
Deaths[]
- Total - 13
- 7 Men
- 5 Female
- 1 Victim of Unknown Gender
Kill Counts[]
- Elizabeth Mescal - 5 (Deceased)
- Sheriff Jarrod Colcord - 3 (Alive)
- Virgil Hooker - 3 (Deceased)
- Lute Dooland - 1 (Deceased)
- Horace Dooland - 1 (Deceased)