David Jackson

When a young man takes a vacant teaching spot at a British public school he quickly learns he may have gotten into more than he expected. The upper class schoolboys, intent on scholarships, threaten the teacher with harm if he doesn't do as they wish. However, after a few incidents in which the teacher appears to have proven his point the boys abruptly ask for his help to find a missing classmate. Societal roles, herd mentality and fear are present in this taut drama that rapidly escalates to a tense conclusion.

This is the horrifying true account of John Reginald Christie, whose crimes and subsequent trial summarily ended capital punishment in Britain. After savagely murdering a woman and her newborn baby, Christie was able to convince a jury that the woman's husband was the actual perpetrator. Years later, Christie admitted his guilt and a shocked nation learned an innocent man had been put to death.

Based on Ludovic Kennedy?s investigative book, this is the true and horrifying story of serial killer John Christie, chillingly played by Richard Attenborough. When Timothy Evans (John Hurt) and his wife (Judy Geeson) move into Christie?s tiny flat, they do not know that they are now part of the latest plan Christie has hatched to lure yet another woman to her death and pin the blame on Evans, who is soon afterwards hanged. It is only when fate exposes the crimes of the death-house at 10 Rillington Place in London, that Christie is brought to justice and all of England rethinks its views of the death penalty. Newly remastered.

When a young man takes a vacant teaching spot at a British public school he quickly learns he may have gotten into more than he expected. The upper class schoolboys, intent on scholarships, threaten the teacher with harm if he doesn't do as they wish. However, after a few incidents in which the teacher appears to have proven his point the boys abruptly ask for his help to find a missing classmate. Societal roles, herd mentality and fear are present in this taut drama that rapidly escalates to a tense conclusion.