Crime

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10 Rillington Place

Columbia Pictures

Filmways Pictures

Genesis Productions Ltd.

United Kingdom

English

Richard Attenborough

John Hurt

Judy Geeson

Pat Heywood

Isobel Black

Miss Riley

André Morell

Robert Hardy

Phyllis MacMahon

Gabrielle Daye

Jimmy Gardner

Edward Evans

Tenniel Evans

Ray Barron

Douglas Blackwell

Basil Dignam

Edward Burnham

Reg Lye

Sam Kydd

Rudolph Walker

Geoffrey Chater

Jack Carr

Arthur Gross

David Jackson

George Lee

Richard Coleman

Norman Henry

Edwin Brown

Norma Shebbeare

Tommy Ansah

Jack Armstrong

Ernest Blyth

Margaret Boyd

Rodney Cardiff

Edward Cast

Vic Chapman

Jimmy Charters

Patrick Halpin

George Hilsdon

George Holdcroft

Fred Hugh

Cyril Kent

Robin Keston

Anthony Lang

Howard Lang

Roy Lansford

Dido Plumb

Colin Rix

Jack Sharp

John Tatham

Tony Thawnton

Mickey Varey

Eric Wetherell

John Wilder

Jack Carter

Clive Exton

Richard Fleischer

Ludovic Kennedy

Ken Scrivener

Basil Appleby

Martin Ransohoff

Jilda Smith

Nick Farnes

Denys N. Coop

Terry Marcel

Maurice Carter

Stuart Freeborn

Ernest Walter

Leslie Linder

John Dankworth

Joan White

John Harris

Valerie Booth

David Wynn-Jones

Andrew Campbell

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Richard Attenborough is superb in this creepy and true tale of John Christie. He lives with his wife Ethel (Pat Heywood) in the ground floor of the address where, above, a young couple of pregnant Beryl (Judy Gleeson) and Timothy Evans (John Hurt) have just moved in. Unbeknown to them, though, the outwardly affable Christie lives a double life. His other "career" is to help unfortunate women deal with ailments for which they cannot just go to their doctor. We assume that he gets his kicks whilst they are anaethetised and then they end up behind a false wall in his kitchen! It transpires that he might just be able to help the poverty stricken Evans's out - they cannot afford the child they already have, let along bring another into the world, and their rows are regularly heard by the entire street! Maybe Christie has a solution? Of course, by this stage we are fully aware of the real motives behind this proposed "generosity" and clearly it is all very perilous for Beryl, and quite possibly for her slightly flaky husband too. This story had a profound effect on the British public in 1949, when all this happened, and may well have hastened the abolition of the death penalty some 15 years later. The potent performances here make it very easy to see why. So often the victims were never reported missing, or if they were there was no connection to Christie as few of them ever told anyone else where they were going, or why! The truth only came to light after he had been evicted for unlawfully sub-letting their flat. It's a tough watch, this. Richard Fleischer doesn't offer us graphic imagery or audio, he allows our own well informed imagination to do most of the heavy lifting here, and that technique really works!

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Judy Geeson

Pat Heywood

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Miss Riley

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