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Director:
Writers:
Ludovic Kennedy (book)
Clive Exton (writer)
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Release Date:
5 March 1971 (West Germany) more
Tagline:
The true story of John Christie - the serial killer.
Plot:
After subletting his upstairs London flat to a mentally deficient young man named Timothy Evans and his pregnant wife Beryl... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. more
User Comments:
Not sure if anyone has ever made a better film than this? more (53 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Richard Attenborough ... John Reginald Christie
Judy Geeson ... Beryl Evans

John Hurt ... Timothy John Evans
Pat Heywood ... Mrs. Ethel Christie
Isobel Black ... Alice
Miss Riley ... Baby Geraldine
Phyllis MacMahon ... Muriel Eady
Ray Barron ... Workman Willis
Douglas Blackwell ... Workman Jones
Gabrielle Daye ... Mrs. Lynch
Jimmy Gardner ... Mr. Lynch
Edward Evans ... Det. Inspector
Tenniel Evans ... Detective Sergeant
David Jackson ... Constable
George Lee ... Constable
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Additional Details

Runtime:
111 min
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Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
UK:15 (video rating) | Canada:18+ (Ontario) | Iceland:16 | Finland:K-16 (1988) | Finland:K-18 (1971) | West Germany:18 | Norway:15 | Norway:16 (original rating) | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:X (original rating) | USA:GP (original rating) | USA:PG

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Trivia:
Filmed in the real Rillington Place, which had changed its name to Ruston Close after the notorious killings. Filming took place both in no. 10 Rillington Place itself as well as no.6. The street was demolished at the end of 1970 and the area was later redeveloped, with completion in 1977, as Bartle Road and St Andrew's Square. more
Goofs:
Continuity: Timothy and Beryl Evans are shown as already having their baby daughter Geraldine when they first take the flat whereas she was not born until after they had lived there for six months. more
Quotes:
Timothy John Evans: She's not alive. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Psychoville: (#1.5)" (2009) more

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Not sure if anyone has ever made a better film than this?, 6 October 2002
Author: Noel Bailey (uds3@hotmail.com) from Longmont: Colorado US

The zenith of British film making, 10 RILLINGTON PLACE (the location since re-named) is a true story. John Christie (who last time I was there was still a star exhibit at Madame Tussaud's waxworks museum in London) was the mega-ordinary, almost mousy south east Londoner who besides liking a good cuppa tea...killed people in his dingy little residence. Somewhat of a sexual predator (though this is hinted at, rather than depicted) Christie used his very basic scientific knowledge to offer "comfort" to such as pregnant young girls by way of his own in-house abortion that none actually survived. The case of young and fully dim-witted Timothy Evans (so brilliantly played by John Hurt) who comes to lodge and whose pretty young wife (Geeson) becomes another victim of the serial killer Christie represented the height of British injustice when Christie himself was able to manipulate the facts to point the finger of guilt at Evans himself and who was actually hanged for the murder of his wife and child. (The later-bestowed pardon would have been of little consequence I feel....the ultimate "too liitle too late")

The film's bleak depiction of immediate post-war Britain is just stunning, Attenborough deserved the Oscar for his amazing characterisation of Christie...a monster with a facade no-one thought to question. No clear-thinking and perceptive person could possibly watch this movie and not be affected in some way. The horror Is that there IS no horror, just a veneer of respectability and decency. I cannot offhand, nominate a more powerful or credible piece of film-making. We have this film in our library and watch it on average ever two years - it has never aged or been less impactful!

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