As infamous serial murderer John Reginald Christie, Richard Attenborough is just exaggerated enough to remain credible.
10 Rillington Place (1971)
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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:5
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: London, 1944. John Reginald Christie (Richard Attenborough) is digging in his backyard when he comes across a woman's leg. Unfazed, he covers up the leg and continues to bury the woman he just... London, 1944. John Reginald Christie (Richard Attenborough) is digging in his backyard when he comes across a woman's leg. Unfazed, he covers up the leg and continues to bury the woman he just strangled in his kitchen. Three years later, Timothy Evans (John Hurt), along with his wife, Beryl Evans (Judy Geeson), and their baby, rents an apartment in the same decrepit building--10 RILLINGTON PLACE. The young couple struggles to live on Timothy's minuscule pay while Christie insidiously inserts himself into their lives. He manipulates the pregnant Beryl and the illiterate Timothy until they believe he will perform an abortion on Beryl. However, Christie has other plans... This chilling account of the notorious Timothy Evans case is the fourth in director Richard Fleischer's series of movies based on real-life murder cases, following THE GIRL IN THE RED VELVET SWING, COMPULSION, and THE BOSTON STRANGLER. Fleischer makes potent use of his unnerving, off-kilter camera set-ups in the cramped interiors of 10 RILLINGTON PLACE. Hurt gives a fine performance as the simple Timothy, and Attenborough is riveting as the unctuous and manipulative Christie. [More]
Starring: Richard Attenborough, John Hurt, Judy Geeson, Andre Morell
Starring: Richard Attenborough, John Hurt, Judy Geeson, Andre Morell
Director: Richard Fleischer
Director: Richard Fleischer
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Reviews for 10 Rillington Place
More highly regarded these days than when it was released in 1971, Richard Fleischer's 10 Rillington Place is a grimly efficient treatment of a once-notorious case.
an unsettling reminder that, more often than not, it is not overly clever traps but rather people who kill people.
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