Film
960: 10 Rillington Place
Trivia: Filmed
in the real Rillington Place, which had changed its name to Ruston Close after
the notorious killings. Filming took place both in no. 10 Rillington Place
itself as well as no.6. The street was demolished at the end of 1970 and the
area was later redeveloped, with completion in 1977, as Bartle Road and St
Andrew's Square.
According
to the commentary by John Hurt on
the DVD, real-life retired executioner Albert Pierrepoint was a technical advisor for the
execution scene. This scene was the first British people had seen in a cinema
of a British hanging, and as it was still covered under the government's
Official Secrets Act, no details regarding the scene were available. This is
where Albert Pierrepoint came in, under an assumed name, and was able to
re-create the harrowing scene to maximize the true terror of what it must have
been like.
Richard Attenborough's make-up (mainly consisting of a
bald pate) took 3 hours to apply every morning.
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