{"id":5619,"date":"2026-07-25T15:53:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T15:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/helen-mirren-and-david-morrissey-in-cause-celebre-1987-british-true-crime-drama\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T15:53:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T15:53:02","slug":"helen-mirren-and-david-morrissey-in-cause-celebre-1987-british-true-crime-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/helen-mirren-and-david-morrissey-in-cause-celebre-1987-british-true-crime-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Mirren and David Morrissey in Cause C\u00e9l\u00e8bre (1987) British True Crime Drama."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tb0g2FyAgeM?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Cause C\u00e9l\u00e8bre features a compelling early performance from Helen Mirren, alongside the exceptional David Suchet and David Morrissey. <\/p>\n<p>Set in the 1930s Bournemouth, songwriter Alma Rattenbury (Mirren) falls into a feverish affair with her teenage handyman (Morrissey). As their connection spirals, it culminates in the savage killing of her husband, Francis Rattenbury. The ensuing &#8220;Cause C\u00e9l\u00e8bre&#8221; became a trial that transfixed 1930s England, enthralled by the scandal of a woman flouting the rigid social boundaries of her era.<\/p>\n<p>Broadcast 23rd August 1987<\/p>\n<p>#HelenMirren #BritishDrama #TrueCrime #DavidSuchet #ClassicTV #1980sTV #TerenceRattigan #PeriodDrama<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tb0g2FyAgeM\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cause C\u00e9l\u00e8bre features a compelling early performance from Helen Mirren, alongside the exceptional David Suchet and David Morrissey. Set in the 1930s Bournemouth, songwriter Alma Rattenbury (Mirren) falls into a feverish affair with her teenage handyman (Morrissey). As their connection spirals, it culminates in the savage killing of her husband, Francis Rattenbury. The ensuing &#8220;Cause [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155150896,"featured_media":5620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4155150896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5621,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619\/revisions\/5621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}