Cause Célèbre

1987    1h 50m    TV-PG
The story based on a defense of a woman's live-in handy-man lover who violently kills her elderly impotent husband.

The barrister mounts a defense of how this younger, naive man misinterpreted the woman's involvement with him. The case takes strange twists as the woman winds the unwilling other victim whose only crime is one of indiscretion.

The story was inspired by the trial of Alma Rattenbury and her teenage lover in 1935 for the murder of her third husband Francis Rattenbury.

Made by Anglia Television for the ITV Network.
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1 Season
  • Season 1
    Season 11 Episode
Cast of Cause Célèbre
  • Helen MirrenAlma Rattenbury
  • David SuchetT.J. O'Connor
  • Harry AndrewsFrancis Rattenbury
  • David MorrisseyGeorge Bowman
  • Norma WestIrene Riggs
  • Oliver Ford DaviesJ.D. Casswell
  • Neil JefferyChristopher
  • Edmund PeggeConstable Bagwell
  • Gillian MartellJoan Webster
  • Clive SwiftR.P. Croom Johnson KC
  • Geoffrey BayldonMr. Justice Humphries
  • Adam BlackwoodEwan Montagu
  • Robin BrowneCourt Usher
  • Paul GreenhalghClerk Of The Court
  • Alan RoweE. Marshall Harvey
  • Wendy WilliamsEdith Davenport
  • Joe AndersonLittle John
  • David SimeonInspector Carter
  • Gilliam MartellJoan Webster
  • Peter Van DisselFirst Reporter
  • Gil SutherlandSecond Reporter
  • Harry Aitch FielderPoliceman

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