THE STRANGLER OF RILLINGTON PLACE Original Daybill Movie Poster Richard Attenborough

10 Rillington Place (1971)

Directed by Richard Fleischer.

With Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt, Pat Heywood

London, 1949. John Christie is an unassuming, middle-aged man who, along with his wife Ethel, lives in the ground-floor flat at 10 Rillington Place. His demeanor masks the fact of being a serial killer. His modus operandi is to act as a person with a medical background, lure unsuspecting women to his apartment on the pretense of curing them of some ailment, knock them unconscious with carbon monoxide gas, gain his sexual release through contact with the unconscious body, then strangle the victim dead before disposing of the body somewhere in the house or outside area.