Cause celebre

""It's 1935. The headlines scream "murder most foul." All England is boiling with fury - scandalized by "the crime of the decad." Cause célèbre is an emotionally complex real-life drama of love, betrayal, guilt and obsession spun hopelessly out of control. Did Alma Rattenbury (Helen Mirren) - as she confessed - bludgeon her ailing husband to death? Or, was it Bowen, her 18-year-old lover - desperately driven by their affair into a fit of jealous rage?"--Container."@en
"The story of Alma Rattenbury, who--as a middle-aged, upper-class wife and mother in England--had an affair with an 18-year-old boy and then confessed to bludgeoning her ailing husband to death. Mystery surrounds the case, as some believe her jealous lover to be the real killer."@en
"Terence Rattigan's dramatization of a sensational murder trial in Britain in 1935, in which an upper class wife and mother was tried for bludgeoning her husband to death out of love for a servant half her age."
"Terence Rattigan's dramatization of a sensational murder trial in Britain in 1935, in which an upper class wife and mother was tried for bludgeoning her husband to death out of love for a servant half her age."@en