Hawley Harvey Crippen - Media Adaptations

Media Adaptations

• The murder inspired Arthur Machen's 1927 short story "The Islington Mystery" which in turn was adapted as the 1960 Mexican film El Esqueleto de la señora Morales.
• The story of Dr. Crippen is retold in the Act 1 finale of the 1943 Broadway musical One Touch of Venus.
• The 1961 Wolf Mankowitz musical Belle at the Strand Theatre in London was based on the case.
• The 1962 feature film Dr. Crippen stars Donald Pleasence in the title role.
• The 1968 film Negatives features Peter McEnery and Glenda Jackson as a couple whose erotic fantasies involve dressing up as Crippen and Ethel le Neve.
• The 1981 TV series Lady Killers episode "Miss Elmore" covers the case.
• The 1989 BBC series Shadow of the Noose, about the life of barrister Edward Marshall Hall, included what is portrayed as an abortive attempt on Hall's part to defend Crippen (played by David Hatton).
• The American TV series Ironside presented an episode (Season 2, Episode 16, January 23, 1969: Why the Tuesday Afternoon Bridge Club Met on Thursday) in which a neurotic man assumed Dr. Crippen's identity and committed a similar murder.
• John Boyne wrote the 2004 novel Crippen – A Novel of Murder.
• Erik Larson's 2006 book Thunderstruck interwove the story of the murder with the history of Guglielmo Marconi's invention of radio.
• Martin Edwards wrote the 2008 novel Dancing for the Hangman which re-interprets the case while seeking to adhere to the established evidence.