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10 Rillington PlaceBased on the book by Ludovic Kennedy, 10 Rillington Place tells the true story of John Christie (Attenborough), an unprepossessing middle-class man with a secret predilection for rape and murder, as he insinuates himself into the lives of his victims Timothy Evans (Hurt), wife Beryl (Gleeson) and their baby Geraldine.
As well as directing such blockbusters as 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, The Vikings and Fantastic Voyage, American Richard Fleisher's career contains a run of movie recreations of actual murders, including The Boston Strangler and Compulsion. Here Fleischer turns his grisly aptitude to very English material, specifically postwar London.
When the naive Evans, Beryl and their baby daughter move into the eponymous address, their neighbour and landlord is Christie, a serial killer and necrophile. Taking a fancy to Beryl, Christie ingratiates himself into the household, and gains their sympathies - so much so that they agree to Christie performing an illegal abortion on Beryl to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. Instead, he rapes and murders her. He even kills the baby daughter, before framing Evans for the murders. Christie remains free to continue his killings, while Evans goes to the gallows.
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