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'10 Rillington Place' (1971)
Richard Attenborough is serial-killer John Christie in a fairly accurate re-telling of the real-life events.
Good film this mainly because Attenborough and John Hurt both give very convincing performances. Ludovic Kennedy, who wrote a book about it, was a technical advisor, as was hangman Albert Pierrepont, who was brought in to ensure the hanging scene was as accurate as possible.
The exterior shots in the film were on the actual location. The street was renamed in the 1950s and then the whole area demolished completely not long after the film was made. It has since been re-developed beyond recognition. The street no longer exists under any name.
Christie had a high IQ but his big problem was disposing of the bodies. He buried some in the back yard but his dog was digging them up. An initial police search failed to find the shallow graves, or notice that a human femur was propping up the fence.
With the yard full, Christie resorted to stashing corpses in an alcove of his kitchen and then wallpapering over it. They were discovered when a new tenant attempted to fit brackets for a shelf he was putting up. At his trial Christie pleaded insanity but the jury didn't buy it and he was hanged.