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Release Date:
5 March 1971 (West Germany) See more »
Tagline:
What happened to the women at 10 Rillington Place? See more »
Plot:
London, 1949. John Christie is an unassuming, middle aged man who, along with his wife Ethel, manages the apartment building at 10 Rillington Place... See more » | Add synopsis »
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Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. See more »
User Reviews:
I Saw This Thirty-three Years Ago See more (65 total) »

Cast

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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
Richard Coleman ... Constable

André Morell ... Judge Lewis

Robert Hardy ... Malcolm Morris
Geoffrey Chater ... Christmas Humphreys
Basil Dignam ... Member of the medical board
Norman Henry ... Member of the Medical Board
Edward Burnham ... Member of the medical board
Edwin Brown ... Hangman
Norma Shebbeare ... Woman in cafe
Sam Kydd ... Furniture Dealer
Rudolph Walker ... West Indian
Tommy Ansah ... West Indian
Reg Lye ... Tramp
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jack Carr ... Constable
Margaret Boyd ... Old Lady (uncredited)
Edward Cast ... Plainclothes Sergeant (uncredited)
Uel Deane ... Irish Tenor (uncredited)
Arthur Gross ... Man in Pub (uncredited)
Fred Hugh ... Man in Pub (uncredited)
Robin Keston ... Boy (uncredited)
Samantha Keston ... Urchin (uncredited)
Howard Lang ... Man in Pub (uncredited)
Tony Thawnton ... Desk Sergeant (uncredited)

Edward Woodward ... Witnessing officer at hanging (uncredited)
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Directed by
Richard Fleischer 
 
Writing credits
Ludovic Kennedy (book "Ten Rillington Place")

Clive Exton 

Produced by
Basil Appleby .... associate producer
Leslie Linder .... producer
Martin Ransohoff .... producer
 
Original Music by
John Dankworth 
 
Cinematography by
Denys N. Coop  (as Denys Coop)
 
Film Editing by
Ernest Walter 
 
Art Direction by
Maurice Carter 
 
Set Decoration by
Andrew Campbell 
 
Makeup Department
Stuart Freeborn .... makeup artist
Joan White .... hair stylist
 
Production Management
Jilda Smith .... production manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Terry Marcel .... assistant director
Nick Farnes .... assistant director (uncredited)
 
Art Department
Vic Simpson .... construction manager
 
Sound Department
Bob Allen .... sound mixer
Colin Miller .... sound editor
Ken Scrivener .... sound recordist
 
Camera and Electrical Department
John Harris .... camera operator
Lou Bogue .... best boy (uncredited)
Laurie Shane .... gaffer (uncredited)
David Wynn-Jones .... focus puller (uncredited)
 
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Tiny Nicholls .... wardrobe
 
Music Department
John Dankworth .... conductor
David Lindup .... orchestrator (uncredited)
 
Other crew
Valerie Booth .... continuity
Ludovic Kennedy .... technical advisor
Paul Thayre .... police liaison
Albert Pierrepoint .... technical advisor (uncredited)
 
Crew believed to be complete


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Additional Details

Also Known As:
"The Strangler of Rillington Place" - Hong Kong (English title) (premiere title)
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Runtime:
111 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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1.85 : 1 See more »
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Certification:
Norway:15 | Norway:16 (original rating) | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:X (original rating) | USA:GP (original rating) | USA:PG | UK:15 (video rating) | Canada:18+ (Ontario) | Iceland:16 | Finland:K-16 (1988) | Finland:K-18 (1971) | West Germany:18 | Portugal:M/16

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Trivia:
According to the commentary by John Hurt on the DVD, real-life retired executioner Albert Pierrepoint was a technical advisor for the execution scene. This scene was the first British people had seen in a cinema of a British hanging, and as it was still covered under the government's Official Secrets Act, no details regarding the scene were available. This is where Albert Pierrepoint came in, under an assumed name, and was able to re-create the harrowing scene to maximize the true terror of what it must have been like.See more »
Goofs:
Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Christie is explaining the procedure he's about to perform on Beryl, he says that natural gas contains carbon monoxide, then quotes its formula as CO2 (which is actually carbon dioxide). The correct formula for carbon monoxide is CO. However, the point appears to be to show him for the half-educated conman he is. It's just Christie's character creating an air of "expertise".See more »
Quotes:
Timothy John Evans:Don't you worry, Mr Christie, you'll get your money back. I'll be getting a new job shortly I shouldn't wonder. They've asked me if I want to train as a manager or as a managing director or something, you know.
John Reginald Christie:Won't you have to read and write for that?
Timothy John Evans:Oh no, no - you have secretaries, things like that, see.
John Reginald Christie:Yes, as long as I get my 10 shillings back.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Nekromantik (1987)See more »

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62 out of 64 people found the following review useful.
I Saw This Thirty-three Years Ago, 1 June 2004
Author: Fred (thurberdrawing@yahoo.com) from Long Island, USA

I saw this in a theatre here in the United States in 1971, when I was eleven years old. I'd seen Richard Attenborough as the circus master in DOCTOR DOLITTLE and I wonder if I'd sold my mother on taking me to this one because I knew the name Richard Attenborough. In any case, this movie burned itself into my brain immediately and, for the next three decades I told many of my fellow American film-buffs that there was this British movie no American had ever heard about that was more blood-curdling than PSYCHO. I suspect the obviously limited release of this movie in the United States had something to do with the fact that one of its chief selling-points was that it was based on a murder not well-known to Americans. The Christie murders were famous in Britain, and, in fact, historic because of their effect on the elimination of the UK's death penalty. But the distributors in America had to market this on its qualities as a thriller. Attenborough had yet to make his name a household word here, GHANDI being about ten years in the future and the probable difficulty with accents couldn't have made people who did see it very eager to recommend it. On top of this, the movie is not a thriller but a truly disturbing exploration of evil. It makes the roughly contemporary FRENZY look like a sitcom. Movies became more realistic in the late sixties and early seventies than they have been before or since. 10 RILLINGTON PLACE may be the most realistic movie about a serial killer ever made. It may not be the scariest, but it's the most memorable. I haven't forgotten it, and I haven't seen it in more than a generation. It is a mournful movie for serious viewing.

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