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10 Rillington Place (1970)
Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1970
Running Times: 106 mins 15 secs (UK - video
(1987)) 111 mins 2 secs (UK - theatrical)
Format: Eastmancolor
Ratio:
Sound:
CREDITS
 PRODUCTION
Production Company: Filmways Pictures
Producer: Martin Ransohoff,
Leslie Linder
Associate Producer: Basil Appleby
Production Manager: Jilda Smith
SCRIPT
Screenplay: Clive
Exton
Book: Ludovic
Kennedy
DIRECTION
Director: Richard Fleischer
Assistant Directors: Nick
Farnes, Terry Marcel
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Denys Coop
Camera Operator: John Harris
Best Boy: Lou
Bogue (uncredited)
Gaffer: Laurie
Shane (uncredited)
Grip Package / Lighting: Lee Lighting Ltd
EDITING
Editor: Ernest
Walter
MUSIC
Music / Conductor: John Dankworth
SOUND
Sound Recordist: Ken Scrivener
Sound Mixer: Bob
Allen
Sound Editor: Colin Miller
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Stuart
Freeborn
Hair: Joan
White
Wardrobe: Tiny
Nicholls
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Maurice Carter
Set Decorator: Andrew Campbell
Construction Manager: Vic Simpson
MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Valerie
Booth
Technical Advisor: Ludovic Kennedy
Police Liasion: Paul Thayre
LOCATIONS
Locations: The Electric Cinema, Notting Hill, London, England, UK
Studio: Shepperton Studios, London, England, UK
CAST
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
(Detective Inspector)
Tenniel Evans
(Detective Sergeant)
David Jackson,
Jack Carr, George Lee,
Richard Coleman
(constables)
Andre Morell
(Judge Lewis)
Robert Hardy
(Malcolm Morris)
Geoffrey Chater
(Christmas Humphreys)
Basil Dignam,
Norman Henry,
Edward Burnham
(members of the medical board)
Edwin Brown
(hangman)
Norma Shebbeare
(woman in cafe)
Sam Kydd (Roberts)
Rudolph Walker,
Tommy Ansah (West
Indians)
Reg Lye (tramp)
Margaret Boyd
(old lady (uncredited))
Edward Cast
(plain clothes sergeant (uncredited))
Godfrey Jackman (police seargeant (uncredited))
Uel Deane
(Irish tenor (uncredited))
Arthur Gross,
Fred Hugh, Howard Lang (men
in pub (all uncredited))
Tony Thawnton
(desk sergeant (uncredited))
Edward Woodward
(witnessing officer at hanging (uncredited))
Robert Keegan (detective inspector (uncredited))
PLOT SUMMARY
Welshman Timothy Evans and his wife Beryl move to London seeking work.
They move into a flat in 10 Rillington Place where their landlord, the
slightly creepy John Reginald Christie has a terrible secret - he's
a serial killer and necrophile and he now has his eye on Beryl.
CAPSULE REVIEW
Based on a best selling book examining the true story of the London
wartime serial killer John Christie. Attenborough is the essence of
the banality of evil as Christie, a quiet, part time police constable
who performed back street abortions. The film captures perfectly the
grubby atmosphere of sexual brutality behind the net curtains of respectabilty.
Fleischer
directs in a straightforward, almost documentary style losing the tricks
that jarred with the horror in his previous true life serial killer
film The Boston
Strangler (1968). Evans' pleas as he is sentenced and
Christie's assault on the drugged Beryl are two of the scenes that lodge
in the memory long after the film has been watched. Like its subject
the film is quiet, understated but truly terrifying. The house has now
been demolished after attracting too many sight seers.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Theatrical Distributors: Columbia Pictures
Video Distributors: Video Collection / Cinema Club / Columbia Tristar
(CC7135); 4 Front Video / UCA (C9073582)
DVD Distributors: Columbia Tristar Home Video (CDR10039)
USA
Theatrical Distributors: Columbia Pictures
Video Distributors: RCA; Columbia / Tristar
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Finland
Rating: K-18
Norway
Rating: 15
Sweden
Rating: 15
UK
Rating: X (1970); 15 (1987)
USA
Rating: PG
TIMELINE
1970
October
13: UK - rated X by the BBFC (for theatrical release)
1971
May
Day Unknown: USA - theatrical release
June
28: Sweden - theatrical release
August
27: Finland - theatrical release
1976
November
21: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)
1980
March
22: UK - television broadcast (on LWT)
1987
March
30: UK - rated 15 by the BBFC (for video release)
September
24: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)
1989
June
17: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)
1993
July
21: UK - rated 15 by the BBFC (for video release)
1995
April
3: UK - video release
1996
March
1: UK - video deleted
June
5: USA - video release (on Columbia / Tristar)
1998
March
14: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 5)
September
30: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 5)
2000
April
6: UK - television broadcast (on Film Four)
November
25: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 5)
2003
January
13: UK - video release (4 Front Video / UCA (C9073582))
June
30: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 5)
2004
March
29: UK - Columbia Tristar Home Video (CDR10039)
POSTER TAGS
The true story of John Christie - the serial killer.
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
L'assassino di Rillington Place n.10 -
Italian title
Dom przy ulicy Rilington 10 - Polish
title
El estrangulador de Rillington Place -
Spanish title
John Christie, der Frauenwürger -
German title
Rillingtonin kuristaja - Finnish title
Stryparen pa Rillington Place - Swedish title
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Filmfacts vol.14 no.12 (1971) p.278 (USA)
review
Films and Filming vol.17 no.8 (May 1971)
pp.94-96 (UK)
illustrated credits, review (by Gordon Gow)
Hollywood Reporter vol.211 no.38 (26
June 1970) p.9 (USA)
credits
Hollywood Reporter vol.214 no.28 (14
January 1971) p.3 (USA)
review
Kine Weekly no.3303 (30 January 1971)
p.10 (UK)
review
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.38 no.445 (February
1971) p.32 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.38 no.450 (July
1971) p.153 (UK)
note
Motion Picture Herald vol.241 no.7 (16
June 1971) p.568 (USA)
review
Positif no.133 (December 1971) p.97 (France)
review
Radio Times 1 - 7 April 2000 p.73 (UK)
review (by David Parkinson)
Today's Cinema no.9805 (19 May 1970)
p.8 (UK)
credits
Today's Cinema no.9847 (13 October 1970)
p.10 (UK)
review
Today's Cinema no.9876 (29 January 1971)
p.8 (UK)
review
Variety 10 February 1971 p.17 (USA)
review (by Rich)
BOOKS
The BFI Companion to Crime p.319
short review
The Psychotronic Video Guide p.560
short review, credits
KEYWORDS
true crime, bio pics, hangings, capital punishment, abortions, executions,
mistaken identites, rape, serial killers
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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