RILLINGTON PLACE

2ENTERTAIN OUT NOW

By PHILIP KEMP

The real-life case of Notting Hill mass murderer Reg Christie was famously filmed by Richard Fleischer in 1971 as 10 Rillington Place, featuring Richard Attenborough in one of his finest screen performances as Christie (and John Hurt playing the wretched Timothy Evans, who was wrongly hanged for Christie’s crimes). But in the BBC’s three-parter, Tim Roth equals (maybe even surpasses) Attenborough. Roth’s Christie – round-shouldered, bald and bespectacled, shuffling, smiling apologetically and speaking in a self-effacing whisper – seems to be such an insignificant, harmless little man that his killings are all the more horrifyingly hard to credit. As, apparently, was the case with the real-life killer. The rest of the Rillington Place cast – Samantha Morton as Christie’s manipulated wife Ethel, Nico Mirallegro as poor naive, gullible Tim Evans…

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