In Louise Brooks’s 1929 film Pandora’s Box, Lulu is killed in London. The final section follows Lulu after her earlier life has collapsed, placing her in a poorer and more precarious setting in the city.
Lulu is murdered by Jack the Ripper, a fictionalized figure drawn from the notorious Victorian killer associated with Whitechapel. The ending connects the film’s modern melodrama with a recognizable piece of London crime mythology, while preserving the fatal trajectory established by Wedekind’s plays.
The location is easy to confuse with Berlin, Paris, or Vienna because Lulu’s story moves through several European settings and because the film is German. London is specifically the setting of the final encounter. The city also reinforces the film’s atmosphere of anonymity, danger, and social dislocation.
The scene is not a historical account of a real meeting between Jack the Ripper and Lulu. Lulu is a fictional character, and the film’s use of Jack the Ripper is an artistic device adapted from Wedekind’s dramatic world.