The Christie Case

[contrafib]

Also on you tube, if you search on 'to kill and kill again', someone has posted the episode on Jack The Ripper from the 2001 ITV series on serial killers. There was also an episode on Christie in that series, which will probably appear at some point. Although the standard version is again featured, the programme did feature some interesting stuff, including interviews with former residents and also with a woman called Peggy Baker, who met Christie in the mid-forties and made an appointment with him that luckily she couldn't keep. I'll keep an eye out and post it here if it appears on YT.

[contrafib]

I'm pleased that the forum has something to talk about again, even if it's mainly just to express collective frustration that this new BBC production will probably forego the chance to use the information from the official archives released since the 1971 film in favour of a sloppy rehash of the standard version. Then again, shouldn't judge before we see it. I imagine there'll be something of interest in it in some regard. Perhaps for example there could be more honest and make Beryl seem less physically alluring (as she was in reality) than they did by using Judy Geeson in the original film.

On a sidenote, I occasionally check you tube and it seems that people are continually reposting the 45-minute Christie documentary, presented by Fred Dineage, which again offers nothing new except the suggestion of Ethel's possible involvement in the supposed abortions carried out by Christie.

If you don't mind, a quick shameless plug and link for the unofficial audio commentary for '10 Rillington Place' that Honest John and I did a couple of years ago, for those new to the forum or who haven't heard it. Feedback, positive or negative, always welcome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMlF_ejXwyw&list=PLJHwepa7LNQ0PGIuiY1uS6odIBpdwGG1r

[Mayerling]

Wouldn't it be ££££££££?

It also (in the case of typing this line on the computer) whether the key board is for use in the U.S. or U.K.

Jeff

[Sherlock]

I have just read on another forum that neither Honest John nor John Eddowes, both of whom have written important books containing evidence pointing towards Evans's guilt, have been consulted on the forthcoming BBC drama. It seems very much then that it will simply be a recycling of the standard version of the case, with no new facts presented, although it is to be hoped that it will at least be more historically accurate than the 1971 film.

I wonder if all of Christie's other definite victims, ie Ruth Fuerst, Muriel Eady, Rita Nelson, Kathleen Maloney and Hectorina MacLennan, will be portrayed in the serial and who will play them? I also wonder if the sexual motivation for the killings will be more clearly presented than in the 1971 film where it was only hinted at?

[GUT]

Wouldn't it be ££££££££?

1.Depends on who is funding it.

2.i don't have the pounds symbol on this keyboard.

[Ginger]

Why are they shooting some in Glasgow? $$$$$$

Wouldn't it be ££££££££?

[Sherlock]

See my post above for a possible reason why part of the drama is being filmed in Glasgow. I believe part of it is also being filmed in London. I wonder if it will be shot in the Notting Hill area? I believe the area has changed a very great deal since Christie's day.

[GUT]

Why is this being partly filmed in Glasgow, I wonder, considering that Scotland didn't figure in the Christie case at all except in the background of Christie's last victim? Doesn't London have sufficient gloomy tenement houses any more or rotten weather? Rain can really set a mood!

Have you seen the Russian film version of 'Then there were none', Shaggy? I thoroughly enjoyed their interpretation. It's on YouTube I think.

Why are they shooting some in Glasgow? $$$$$$

[Sherlock]

As the drama is being filmed in the BBC studios in Dumbarton near Glasgow I suppose it is convenient to film some of the outdoor scenes in Glasgow itself. I believe it is the policy of the BBC to film some of its programs in various different parts of the UK, not necessarily where they are set. For example the hospital series Casualty is set in the west of England but is actually filmed in Cardiff in Wales.

Interestingly, Christie did have a distant connection with Scotland as Honest John records in his book that his great-great Grandfather (I think) came from Kilmarnock in Ayrshire. However there is no record that Christie ever visited Scotland himself.

It will be interesting to see which street in either Glasgow or London is used to represent Rillington Place now that the real street has long since been demolished.

[Rosella]

Yes, 'Desyat Negrityat', (which I would guess doesn't translate to 'Then there were None' but 'Ten little Indians') made in 1987. I thought it was interesting.

[Shaggyrand]

Why is this being partly filmed in Glasgow, I wonder, considering that Scotland didn't figure in the Christie case at all except in the background of Christie's last victim? Doesn't London have sufficient gloomy tenement houses any more or rotten weather? Rain can really set a mood!

Have you seen the Russian film version of 'Then there were none', Shaggy? I thoroughly enjoyed their interpretation. It's on YouTube I think.

The one from the 80s or has there been one since? I have seen the 86 or 87 one, went on a bit of a tear through Russian adaptions of UK and US mysteries after seeing their Sherlock Holmes series (which is fantastic by the way), but it's been a while. Should try to revisit it soon.

[Rosella]

Why is this being partly filmed in Glasgow, I wonder, considering that Scotland didn't figure in the Christie case at all except in the background of Christie's last victim? Doesn't London have sufficient gloomy tenement houses any more or rotten weather? Rain can really set a mood!

Have you seen the Russian film version of 'Then there were none', Shaggy? I thoroughly enjoyed their interpretation. It's on YouTube I think.

[Shaggyrand]

I hope we get it down here.

If you don't, there's always the Internet and the UK's easy to bypass region lockouts.
Actually looking forward to this, being done by many of the same folks behind And Then There Were None last year (not perfect but a pretty solid adaptation).

[GUT]

According to a BBC release Tim Roth will play the part of Christie in the forthcoming drama based on the Rillington Place murders and Samantha Morton will play his wife Ethel. Timothy Evans will be played by Nico Mirallegro and Beryl Evans by Jodie Comer.

The serial will be shot on location in Glasgow and London.

I hope we get it down here.

[Sherlock]

According to a BBC release Tim Roth will play the part of Christie in the forthcoming drama based on the Rillington Place murders and Samantha Morton will play his wife Ethel. Timothy Evans will be played by Nico Mirallegro and Beryl Evans by Jodie Comer.

The serial will be shot on location in Glasgow and London.