Dr. Crippen

From the opening credit sequence, principals Donald Pleasence and Samantha Eggar introduced, and Sir Donald Wolfit laying out the case as the prosecutor, in the fact-based Dr. Crippen, 1963.

From a flashback into the memory of Ethel (Samantha Eggar) while on trial, she recalls one doctor (Hamilton Dyce), a fellow assistant (Totti Truman Taylor) and her fellow defendant, the title character, Donald Pleasence, in Dr. Crippen, 1963.

Well into the flashback from his murder trial, Donald Pleasence (title character) with his wife (and alleged victim) Belle (Coral Browne), and amorous lodger Harry (John Lee), later reckoning, in the true-life crime drama Dr. Crippen, 1963.