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4.6/10   326 votes
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David Yallop (writer)
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Release Date:
27 July 1990 (USA) more
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When desire has no limits... Fantasies become dangerous realities!
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Somewhat accurate, but incomplete and boring more (7 total)

Cast

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John Lahr ... Radio commentator
Emily Lloyd ... Betty Jones
Liz Fraser ... Mrs. Evans

Kiefer Sutherland ... Karl Hulten
Harry Fowler ... Morry
Keith Allen ... Lenny Bexley
Patsy Kensit ... Joyce Cook
Angela Morant ... Customer
John Surman ... Mr. Cook
Janet Dale ... Mrs. Cook
John Dair ... John
Stephen Hancock ... Doctor
Hugh Millais ... U.S. colonel
Harry Jones ... Taxi driver
Alexandra Pigg ... Violet
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103 min
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Despite director Bernard Rose's frequent claims during the UK publicity campaign for the film that it was "the greatest British film ever made," the film was not only a major flop but one of the worst reviewed films of the year. more
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Features Double Indemnity (1944) more
Soundtrack:
Sing Sing Sing with a Swing more

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Somewhat accurate, but incomplete and boring, 21 March 2004
Author: Robert A G Cook (crobook@earthlink.net) from Fort Lauderdale, FL U.S.A.

I agree with Jack Sommersby's comment that the film was boring, although he probably knows more about directing than I. However, the film somewhat chronicles what happened in this case and I think that Keifer did an OK job of portraying Hulten. In my opinion, the film would have been much better if it had shown Hulten's and Jone's trial at the Old Bailey, his subsequent hanging at the Pentonville prison, and her being sent to Holloway prison for life.

Richard Clark has an excellent Web site that is just loaded with facts about the prison system and capital punishment in the U.K. going back to the early 18th century.

This film is nowhere near the calibre of "10 Rillington Place" and "Let Him Have It."

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