Saturday, June 17, 2023

Movie review - "10 Rillington Place" (1971) ***1/2

 Powerful, confronting, strong, hard to watch. There's no one to cling on to. John Hurt's braggart, dim, boozy wife beater. Richard Attenborough's terrifying killer. The dopey cops, Smug lawyers. 

Attenborough is incredible. Performance so well defined. Small man. Fantasist. Reassuringly bald. Like a bank manager, Kindly. Alluding to superior information all the time. Hurt is superb. Everyone is good. Judy Geeson lovely. 

Devastating scenes like the hanging. They kill a kid.

Boston Strangler was easy to go down. A tough movie. Very good.

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