Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Agatha Christie"

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Death on the Nile * (2022, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Bateman, Annette Bening, Russell Brand, Ali Fazal, Dawn French, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Rose Leslie, Emma Mackey, Sophie Okonedo, Jennifer Saunders, Letitia Wright) – Movie Review

After murdering the famous Agatha Christie murder mystery thriller Murder on the Orient Express in 2017, Kenneth Branagh returns to the scene of the crime in his even worse 2022 remake of Death on the […]

Feb, 14

Murder with Mirrors *** (1985, Helen Hayes, Bette Davis, John Mills, Leo McKern, Dorothy Tutin, Tim Roth) – Classic Movie Review 9653

Veteran stars Helen Hayes (aged 85) and Bette Davis (aged 77 and returning to filming after a serious stroke that impaired her appearance and mobility) make their first appearance together in director Dick Lowry’s 1985 […]

Apr, 19

Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side **** (1992, Joan Hickson, Claire Bloom, Barry Newman) – Classic Movie Review 9,646

Alas, all good things have to come to an end. The splendid Joan Hickson takes on her 12th and final case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, in the 1992 TV mystery film The Mirror Crack’d […]

Apr, 17

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors *** (1991, Joan Hickson, Jean Simmons, Joss Ackland, Faith Brook, David Horovitch) – Classic Movie Review 9,640

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 […]

Apr, 16

Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery *** (1989, Joan Hickson, Donald Pleasence, Adrian Lukis, Sophie Ward, T P McKenna, Michael Feast, Robert Swann, Sue Lloyd) – Classic Movie Review 9,637

The suspenseful, escapist 1989 TV movie Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery again stars Joan Hickson in her tenth case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on the novel by Agatha Christie. It is shot at […]

Apr, 15

Love from a Stranger [A Night of Terror] *** (1937, Ann Harding, Basil Rathbone, Binnie Hale, Bruce Seton, Jean Cadell) – Classic Movie Review 9633

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 […]

Apr, 13

Miss Marple: Nemesis *** (1987, Joan Hickson, Anna Cropper, Margaret Tyzack, Valerie Lush, Helen Cherry, John Horsley, Peter Tilbury, Frank Gatliff) – Classic Movie Review 9,632

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 […]

Apr, 13

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