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Director Charles Correll’s 1992 TV movie In the Deep Woods is an eerie if rather unimaginative and tatty psycho-thriller, with a screenplay by Robert Nathan and Robert Rosenblum based on Nicholas Conde’s novel. It has […]
John le Carré’s 1962 novel (his second) finds holidaying spymaster George Smiley (Denholm Elliott) turning amateur sleuth in the 1950s to investigate the murder of a schoolmaster’s wife at a Dorset public school, Carne School. […]
Director Michael Apted’s 1983 Gorky Park stars William Hurt, Lee Marvin and Brian Dennehy, who are all excellent in this sombre, well-crafted and at least half-decent thriller, scripted from Martin Cruz Smith’s bestseller by controversial […]
Shots are fired in a darkened room in the lively, inventive and unusual 1991 TV movie Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors. Joan Hickson takes on her eleventh case as the BBC’s detective Miss […]
Director Rowland V Lee’s 1937 thriller Love from a Stranger [A Night of Terror] is the original, and far better, British version of Agatha Christie’s short story Philomel Cottage, before an American remake ten years […]
The inventive 1987 TV movie Miss Marple: Nemesis again stars Joan Hickson, who investigates her eighth case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on the novel by Agatha Christie. Unusually for this faithful series, it […]
The 1987 TV movie Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder again stars Joan Hickson, who takes on her sixth case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on the 1976 novel by Agatha Christie. Director John Davies’s 1987 […]