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  • sdreid
    Commissioner
    • Feb 2008
    • 4956

    #331
    Is there a Sickert character in it?
    This my opinion and to the best of my knowledge, that is, if I'm not joking.

    Stan Reid

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    • Rob Clack
      Inactive
      • Feb 2008
      • 1708

      #332
      No, it is very loosely based on the Camden Town murder. The Robert Woods character is married in thia film. The actor who played him whose name escapes me at the moment appeared om one of tje Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films (Faces Death)

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      • Rosella
        Chief Inspector
        • Sep 2014
        • 1542

        #333
        I still find 10 Rillington Place quite realistic, for the standard version of the Christie killings. (I happen to believe Tim Evans killed his wife and daughter.)

        I watched it again only a few months ago. Apparently while they were filming it Richard Attenborough couldn't leave Reginald Christie at the studio, so his wife went off and lived elsewhere until filming was done, as he was giving her the creeps!

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        • sdreid
          Commissioner
          • Feb 2008
          • 4956

          #334
          It's comfortably in my top 5 true crime films.
          This my opinion and to the best of my knowledge, that is, if I'm not joking.

          Stan Reid

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          • Mayerling
            Superintendent
            • Feb 2008
            • 2762

            #335
            Arthur Margetson

            Originally posted by Rob Clack View Post
            No, it is very loosely based on the Camden Town murder. The Robert Woods character is married in thia film. The actor who played him whose name escapes me at the moment appeared om one of tje Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films (Faces Death)
            Hi all,

            I checked on the Internet Movie Data Base (IMDb) website. The actor who was in this film and Sherlock Holmes Faces Death was Arthur Margetson, who according to that website was born in 1887 and died in 1951. Margetson had some role in Random Harvest, apparently. I was reading the summary of the plot, and it somehow anticipates Billy Wilder's version of Agatha Christie's "Witness For the Prosecution", as the central figure, a great barrister, has to relax for his health but is convinced instead to take on a prominent current murder case defense. Except for the character actress Kathleen Harrison, none of the performers (including Margetson) are known to me. As the barrister is suffering from heart disease, they have apparently combined the true life characters of Sir Edward Marshall-Hall and Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett (who defended Edith Thompson). Curtis-Bennett, a very stout man, did not take adequate care of himself by dieting as his doctor recommended, and his concentration on his case load led to his premature, early death.

            The fictional barrister apparently had a lost love in his background, who connects him to the defendant. Interestingly enough Marshall-Hall's first wife turned out to be promiscuous. She died in a rather horrible manner, killed by an abortionist - doctor in 1894.

            Jeff

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            • Rob Clack
              Inactive
              • Feb 2008
              • 1708

              #336
              Thanks Jeff,

              Margetson also appeared in The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (The Phantom Ship) with Bela Lugosi and Denis Hoey (Lestrade in the Rathbone films) and it also happens to be a Hammer Film.

              Rob

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              • sdreid
                Commissioner
                • Feb 2008
                • 4956

                #337
                Well, Marie Celeste is true but we don't know if it involved a crime or not.
                This my opinion and to the best of my knowledge, that is, if I'm not joking.

                Stan Reid

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                • sdreid
                  Commissioner
                  • Feb 2008
                  • 4956

                  #338
                  Poor management is at least as likely it seems.
                  This my opinion and to the best of my knowledge, that is, if I'm not joking.

                  Stan Reid

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                  • Batman
                    Superintendent
                    • Jan 2013
                    • 2931

                    #339
                    1. Citizen X (1995) (HBO too)
                    2. The Boston Strangler (1968)
                    3. The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)
                    4. City of God (2002)
                    5. In The Name of the Father (1993)
                    Bona fide canonical and then some.

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                    • Mayerling
                      Superintendent
                      • Feb 2008
                      • 2762

                      #340
                      1) The Prisoner of Shark Island
                      2) The Conspirator
                      3) The Lodger (1944)
                      4) Murder on the Orient Express (Albert Finney as Poirot) - elements of the Lindbergh Kidnap/Murder in it.
                      5) Monsieur Verdoux - Chaplin's dark satire of marriage and murder based on the Landru Case
                      6) Les Enfants du Paradis - I like the film in it's entirety, but I appreciate the actor playing Pierre Lacenaire.
                      7) Ten Rillington Place
                      8) We Are Not Alone - One of my two favorite films suggested by the Crippen Case
                      9) The Suspect - The other film suggested by the Crippen Case (added plus is it has Laughton, Stanley Ridges, and Henry Daniell in it).
                      10) The Body Snatcher - Burke and Hare by way of Stevenson and Val Lewton. Again Daniell (in a lead role for a change) and this time Karloff are in it. So is Lugosi.

                      There are others if I thought of them, but these were the first 10 to pop up in my head.

                      Jeff

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                      • sdreid
                        Commissioner
                        • Feb 2008
                        • 4956

                        #341
                        Good to see the 1944 Lodger on there Jeff. It seems to be overlooked too often
                        This my opinion and to the best of my knowledge, that is, if I'm not joking.

                        Stan Reid

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                        • sdreid
                          Commissioner
                          • Feb 2008
                          • 4956

                          #342
                          There are actually quite a few on these recent lists that I haven't seen.
                          This my opinion and to the best of my knowledge, that is, if I'm not joking.

                          Stan Reid

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                          • sdreid
                            Commissioner
                            • Feb 2008
                            • 4956

                            #343
                            Has anyone seen the new Lizzie Borden drama series on Lifetime Channel?
                            This my opinion and to the best of my knowledge, that is, if I'm not joking.

                            Stan Reid

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                            • sdreid
                              Commissioner
                              • Feb 2008
                              • 4956

                              #344
                              Originally posted by sdreid View Post
                              Has anyone seen the new Lizzie Borden drama series on Lifetime Channel?
                              I assume it will later be released on disc, possibly as a long form (6 hr. ?) movie.
                              This my opinion and to the best of my knowledge, that is, if I'm not joking.

                              Stan Reid

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                              • Mayerling
                                Superintendent
                                • Feb 2008
                                • 2762

                                #345
                                Originally posted by sdreid View Post
                                I assume it will later be released on disc, possibly as a long form (6 hr. ?) movie.
                                There was a good television movie back in the 1970s with Elizabeth Montgomery as Lizzie, and Fritz Weaver as Andrew Jackson Borden.

                                Jeff

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