The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: The Murder at Road Hill House (TV 2011)

Based on true events, a Scotland Yard Detective Inspector investigates the horrific murder of a three-year-old boy.

Director:

James Hawes

Writers:

Kate Summerscale (book), Neil McKay

Stars:

Paddy Considine, Peter Capaldi, Tom Georgeson

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Paddy Considine	...	Detective Whicher
Peter Capaldi	...	Samuel Kent
Tom Georgeson	...	Superintendent Foley
William Beck	...	Dolly Williamson
Emma Fielding	...	Mary Kent
Tim Pigott-Smith	...	Commissioner Mayne
Kate O'Flynn	...	Elizabeth Gough
Donald Sumpter	...	Peter Edlin QC
Ben Miles	...	Dr. Stapleton
Alexandra Roach	...	Constance Kent
Jay Simpson	...	George Redman
Peter Gordon	...	Holcombe
Charlie Hiett	...	William Kent
Sarah Ridgeway	...	Sarah Cox
Ben Crompton	...	William Nutt

Storyline

In 1860 Scotland Yard's 'Prince of Sleuths' Jack Whicher is sent to rural Wiltshire to investigate the murder of three-year-old Saville Kent,snatched from his bed at night and killed.Saville's nurse Elizabeth Gough is a prime suspect but released for want of evidence though local Superintendant Foley is convinced it is an inside job. Foley gives his help grudgingly,disdainful of 'modern' methods,speculating that Saville woke to see Elizabeth with a lover,possibly Saville's father,an unpopular man. Part of a woman's torn garment is found,stained in blood,and Constance,Kent's sixteen-year-old daughter from his first marriage, claims she lost a night-gown. Dr. Stapleton,the family physician,tells Whicher that Constance,like her mother,is dangerously unstable and jealous of Saville. Both she and younger brother William hate their stepmother Mary,their former nanny,with whom Kent cuckolded their mother. Whicher arrests Constance but fails to get a confession from her and,at her trial,a ...

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Plot Keywords:

1860s | based on fact | year 1860 | victorian era | murder of child | 

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Genres:

Drama | Mystery

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Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

25 April 2011 (UK)

Also Known As:

Ett fall för Mr Whicher

Filming Locations:

Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England, UK

Company Credits

Production Co:

Hat Trick Productions, Tinamus Productions, Lorius Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

95 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Featured in Crime Connections: Episode #1.6 (2012)

User Reviews

Is this boring case really needed to be made into a boring movie?

A typical so-called English mystery that usually written by British female mystery writers and, they are just too many to be counted. Most of these no-big-deal "mysteries" would have been adapted into TV movies, then PBS would re-broadcast on American PBS channels. Funny thing is that I've never considered most these "mysteries" as real mysteries but no-big-deal bloated big deal, yet bore-to-death if truth could be really told. This movie is no exception and again, I really don't know such boring case would worth making into a movie, even it's based on a true story, so what? What we saw is a detective used his instinct and experience in murder investigations to try so hard to break a so obvious family murder case, the only thing he lacked material evidence and material witness. This kind of storyline is the typical mystery formula so adoringly adopted by the British female mystery writers and almost 99% of the British mysteries are just like this one. It's so flat that just like the heartland of America, so flat and endless in 4 directions.