Just what I expected

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

This film portrays the 'evidence' of what happened inside 10 Rillington Place, however, as it is a polemic against capital punishment it must be viewed as heavily distorted towards that aim. Large parts of the film are excellent, Attenborough's portrayal is brilliant, ditto Hurt and Geeson. That's where my praise for the film ends. The rest is based on leaving out crucial evidence against Evans, crucial evidence concerning the murder of Beryl and claims Evans was illiterate and a fantasist. He was neither of those things. Read 'The Two Killers of Rillington Place'by John Eddowes and make your own mind up. Great actors in this film, great performances, let down by factually inaccurate script.

A very eerie thriller where Richard Attenborough gives the most sinister performance ever as a man, at first masquerading as a doctor, and then only claiming to have certain medical skills. No matter what he lures his victims to is office to only gas them and follow it up by strangulation.One very tragic case where illiterate John Hurt moves into the building with wife Judy Geeson. Geeson totally sheds her high school imagine from "To Sir With Love," playing here a desperate wife who wishes to terminate the pregnancy with her second child.In the most horrendous way, Christie, our serial killer, turns the tables on Hurt claiming that he killed his wife and that with their constant arguing, no one would believe him.The film is a chilling indictment of capital punishment and our criminal justice system.

I first saw this film when it was released, of course, the world has moved on since then and the infamous Rillington Place long demolished. However, the Director, Richard Fleischer, did use the original location when filming this. It certainly added to the atmosphere to the point that it couldn't be replicated today. Richard Attenborough is truly amazing as Christie. Quiet and creepy but you feel the underlying violence just waiting to explode from under the surface. John Hurt is quite simply brilliant as the unfortunate and illiterate Evans. His reaction when learning his wife is dead is a tour de force of acting and shows just why he is so treasured today. I will never forget him when being led to the gallows, it was the stuff of nightmares. The lovely Judy Geeson plays the unfortunate Beryl Evans at the perfect pitch. The entire cast act this cinematic gem to perfection, and many actors today will go far if they can get even halfway as good as these were. I was lucky enough to obtain a DVD of this and what a refreshing change to see a handful of actors, with no special effects, make a truly memorable film. I'd give this 10 out of 10 and would say that if you get the chance, watch this film.

Grossly under-recognised thriller starring the versatile Sir Richard Attenborough as John Christie, meek and mild mannered by day, murderous by night. Claustrophobic (appropriate for the setting) staging lends itself to the ultimate demise of his hapless victims, but for those who know the true story on which this film is based, the more shocking aspect is that involving John Hurt's character, the intellectually delayed lodger who Christie frames for the crimes.Any history book will put paid to the deviousness of John Christie, but a film doesn't evolve to just convey the facts, for that's the role of a documentary. Hence, there are a couple of artistic licences taken with this true-crime story, but the film maintains a vice-like mind grip with its atmosphere of fear, a tactic with which director Fleischer had already successfully dabbled in his earlier serial killer flick, "The Boston Strangler".Judy Geeson plays Hurt's ill-fated young wife, while Pat Heywood is Attenborough's ignorant spouse and the remaining cast includes Isobel Black, Andre Morell, Robert Hardy, Basil Dignam, Rudolph Walker and Reg Lye all in very minor roles. Blink and you'll miss Edward Woodward just before the closing credits.If you've read the Time-Out review of this film, you've been misled - this isn't a melodrama that overcooks the acting nor overlooks the locational ambiance; on the contrary it's an intense urban horror film that conveys the mood of the less optimistic sectors of post-war London, their hardships and the sinister underbelly of fringe dwellers that preys upon that vulnerability. Great movie with a chilling climax.