True crime films were really Richard Fleischer’s forte. He studied psychology before becoming a director, so that might explain why his best films were based on real murder cases: Ten Rillington Place, The Boston Strangler, The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (about the murder of Stanford White) and Compulsion, which was about the Leopold-Loeb case just like Hitchcock’s The Rope. Plus, in 1949 he made a terrific little noir called Follow Me Quietly, which was one of the first films about a serial killer.
Nice review, it's a morbid story but worth repeating because of the injustices of the case. My grandmother went to school with Christie in Yorkshire, she said he was a very naughty boy. She was right!
Thank you👍 it seems interesting.
True crime films were really Richard Fleischer’s forte. He studied psychology before becoming a director, so that might explain why his best films were based on real murder cases: Ten Rillington Place, The Boston Strangler, The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (about the murder of Stanford White) and Compulsion, which was about the Leopold-Loeb case just like Hitchcock’s The Rope. Plus, in 1949 he made a terrific little noir called Follow Me Quietly, which was one of the first films about a serial killer.
Nice review, it's a morbid story but worth repeating because of the injustices of the case. My grandmother went to school with Christie in Yorkshire, she said he was a very naughty boy. She was right!
Very naughty, indeed. Among other things.
Interesting review of a creepy character. 👍