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3 June 1966 (Finland) moreTagline:
The crime of the century! Was he really guilty?Plot:
The real-life story of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, who was hanged in London in 1910 for poisoning his wife so he could be with his young lover. But was he truly guilty of murder? full summary | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Donald Pleasence | ... | Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen | |
| Coral Browne | ... | Belle Crippen | |
| Samantha Eggar | ... | Ethel Le Neve | |
| Donald Wolfit | ... | R.D. Muir (as Sir Donald Wolfit) | |
| James Robertson Justice | ... | Captain McKenzie | |
| John Arnatt | ... | Chief Inspector Dew | |
| Oliver Johnston | ... | Lord Chief Justice | |
| John Lee | ... | Harry | |
| Olga Lindo | ... | Mrs. Arditti | |
| Elspeth March | ... | Mrs. Jackson | |
| Geoffrey Toone | ... | Mr. Tobin | |
| Edward Underdown | ... | The Governor | |
| Douglas Bradley-Smith | ... | Dr. Pepper | |
| Hamilton Dyce | ... | Dr. Rogers | |
| Basil Henson | ... | Mr. Arditti |
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A compact, modestly budgeted movie that looks perfectly at home on home video (which is how I saw it). "Dr. Crippen" boasts flavorful performances by Donald Pleasence as the not-so-good doctor, Coral Browne as the long-suffering as well as insufferable Belle, and a pre-"Collector" Samantha Eggar as Ethel Le Neve, every unhappily married middle-aged man's fantasy. Casting the British-born Pleasence and Australian native Browne as the American Crippens hardly seems to matter. Eggar may have been too beautiful to play Le Neve (who, judging from photographs, was still a darkly attractive young woman). The movie is, perhaps, too economical; although we do get to see Crippen and Le Neve disguised as father and son for their ill-fated ocean voyage, I wished other colorful details of the case had also been re-created, such as Crippen's recklessly escorting Le Neve to a charity ball shortly after his wife's disappearance. As for the movie's suggestion that Crippen wasn't truly guilty of premeditated murder, my reply is: perhaps - but that doesn't really explain why Crippen cut up his wife's body and buried the pieces in the coal cellar.
The real Ethel Le Neve was still alive when this film was first released (she died in 1967). One wonders if she saw it. One wonders what she thought if she had.