Richard Fleischer - 10 Rillington Place (1971) Re-post

London, 1944. John Reginald Christie (Richard Attenborough) is digging in his backyard when he comes across a woman’s leg. Unfazed, he covers up the leg and continues to bury the woman he just strangled in his kitchen. Three years later, Timothy Evans (John Hurt), along with his wife, Beryl Evans (Geeson), and their baby, rent an apartment in the same decrepit building - 10 Rillington Place. The young couple struggle to live on Timothy’s minuscule pay while Christie insidiously inserts himself into their lives. He manipulates the pregnant Beryl and the illiterate Timothy until they believe he will perform an abortion on Beryl. However, Christie has other plans...







10 Rillington Place is more than a classic film. It is frequently referred to whenever the call for the death penalty is made in Britain. The notorious miscarriage of justice i.e the hanging of Timothy Evans, an immature half-wit, for the murder of his wife and child when it is almost universally accepted that they perished at the hands of John "Reg" Christie, is one which will always haunt the British legal system. When Christie was found guilty and hanged as a serial killer of women, the body of Evans was exhumed and reburied in consecrated ground but this did nothing to hide the embarrassment of those who supported the death penalty.









El estrangulador de Rillington
En el Londres de la posguerra una joven pareja (John Hurt y Judy Geeson) y su bebé alquilan un departamento en el número 10 de Rillington Place, una vivienda cuyo inquilino del piso inferior, John Reginald Christie (Richard Attenborough), resulta de lo más inquietante. Lo que desconocen ambos es su violento historial de asesinatos en serie de mujeres, impulsos criminales que Beryl (Geeson) acabará reavivando en su mente.







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