In Pandora’s Box, who kills Lulu in the film’s final act?

Jack the Ripper kills Lulu in the final act of the 1929 film Pandora’s Box.

The ending takes place in London, where Lulu is living in poverty after the destructive collapse of her earlier life. She encounters a man who appears sympathetic and invites him inside. The audience then learns that he is Jack the Ripper, who murders her.

This ending differs from the mythological story of Pandora and comes directly from the dark world of Frank Wedekind’s Lulu drama. The film uses the killer as the final figure in Lulu’s chain of destructive relationships, while also creating a stark contrast between her glamorous earlier life and her final surroundings.

Some summaries describe the attacker simply as a murderer, but the character is explicitly identified as Jack the Ripper in the film’s narrative and source play.