Dr. Crippen

Dr. Crippen

🎞️ Movie 98 min GB
โ˜… 6.4 /10 1963

The crime of the century! Was he really guilty?

A dramatization of Britain's notorious Crippen murder case. American-born Hawley Harvey Crippen (nicknamed 'Peter'), a mild-mannered, middle-aged doctor who made his living in London selling quack remedies, was convicted and hanged in 1910 for poisoning his wife, Belle, dismembering her body and burying the remains in the coal cellar of their home before fleeing England with his mistress, Ethel Le Neve, only to be arrested aboard ship while en route to North America. The movie opens with the start of Crippen's trial in the Old Bailey; flashbacks provide a look at the misery of Crippen's marriage to the overbearing Belle, a failed music-hall performer with an eye for younger men, and how Crippen found true love in the person of his young secretary, until events reached their dreadful climax. That Crippen caused his wife's death, there is little doubt, but this movie wonders: Was it a deliberate act?

Cast

Donald Pleasence
Donald Pleasence
Dr. Crippen
Samantha Eggar
Samantha Eggar
Ethel Le Neve
Coral Browne
Coral Browne
Belle Elmore
Donald Wolfit
Donald Wolfit
R.D. Muir
James Robertson Justice
James Robertson Justice
Captain McKenzie
John Arnatt
John Arnatt
Inspector Dew
Paul Carpenter
Paul Carpenter
Bruce Martin
Oliver Johnston
Oliver Johnston
Lord Chief Justice
John Lee
John Lee
Harry
Olga Lindo
Olga Lindo
Mrs Arditti
Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Roeg
Cinematographer