Dramatisation of the real-life case of George Joseph Smith who was hanged in 1915 for the murder of his three wives, each of whom he killed in turn by drowning them in the bath while trying to make the deaths look like accidents.
Acting
Martin Kemp's unsettling charm masks pure sociopathy.
Writing
Sharp procedural detail — the bath physics alone are riveting.
Director
Harry Bradbeer
Martin Kemp
George Smith
Tracey Wilkinson
Edith Smith
Richard Griffiths
Sir Edward Marshall-Hall
Joanna David
Elizabeth Burnbam
Alan McKenna
DI Arthur Neil
Anthony Calf
Howard Munday
Helen Ryan
Mrs. Farraday
Peter Wight
Charles Burnham
Charlotte Randle
Bessie Mundy
Emma Ferguson
Alice Burnham
Jennifer Calvert
Caroline Thornhill
Susan Brown
Mrs Crossley
Carolyn Backhouse
Margaret Lofty
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pathologist Bernard Spilsbury's bath experiments with a nude female colleague caused scandal — but proved the murders.
This case created the 'Brides in the Bath' cultural shorthand for serial bride murderers, referenced everywhere from Hitchcock to soap operas.
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