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Witness for the Prosecution **** (1957, Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, John Williams, Una O’Connor, Henry Daniell, Ian Wolfe) – Classic Movie Review 2576
Co-writer/director Billy Wilder’s excellent 1957 movie version of Agatha Christie’s ingenious if a shade creaky London-set courtroom thriller is witty, suspenseful and hugely entertaining. Christie’s 1952 international stage success is based on her 1925 short story Traitor’s […]
Evil Under the Sun *** (1982, Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, James Mason, Diana Rigg, Nicholas Clay, Colin Blakely, Jane Birkin, Roddy McDowall, Sylvia Miles, Denis Quilley) – Classic Movie Review 1,305
Evil Under the Sun (1982): Hotelier Maggie Smith’s star guest is a bitchy actress (Diana Rigg) everyone wants to kill – for refusing to do a stage show, for stopping a book, or for having […]
The Mirror Crack’d *** (1980, Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson, Edward Fox, Charles Gray, Wendy Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 1300
Thanks to her wonderfully camp and engaging appearance as a drunken romantic writer in Death on the Nile, Angela Lansbury was promoted to the plum star role of Agatha Christie’s nosy spinster sleuth Miss Jane […]
Death on the Nile **** (1978, Peter Ustinov, Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, Maggie Smith, David Niven, Jon Finch, Jack Warden, George Kennedy, Simon MacCorkindale, Harry Andrews, Jane Birkin, Mia Farrow, Olivia Hussey) – Classic Movie Review 1299
Peter Ustinov’s Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of a selfish heiress (Lois Chiles) on a Nile steamer, where all are suspects, in the 1978 film Death on the Nile. Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, Maggie Smith […]
Murder Most Foul *** (1964, Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell, Dennis Price, Terry Scott) – Classic Movie Review 866
The third Margaret Rutherford Miss Jane Marple movie Murder Most Foul (1964) sees the spinster sleuth as the only jury member refusing to accept her co-jurors’ guilty verdict in the trial of a lodger accused […]
Murder at the Gallop **** (1963, Margaret Rutherford, Stringer Davis, Robert Morley, Flora Robson, Finlay Currie, Charles Tingwell) – Classic Movie Review 865
Hooray for Margaret Rutherford’s second, exceedingly satisfying big-screen mystery entertainment as Dame Agatha Christie’s sleuth Miss Marple, the 1963 comedy crime thriller Murder at the Gallop. Old Lady Crime snoops to conquer when the rich […]
Murder, She Said **** (1961, Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Charles Tingwell, Muriel Pavlow) – Classic Movie Review 867
Director George Pollock’s 1961 comedy murder mystery thriller Murder, She Said is the first and best of Margaret Rutherford’s four star movie appearances as Agatha Christie’s spinster sleuth. Freely based on Christie’s famous 1957 novel 4.50 […]