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Posts Tagged "Agatha Christie"

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Miss Marple: At Bertram’s Hotel *** (1987, Joan Hickson, Caroline Blakiston, James Cossins, Joan Greenwood, George Baker, Helena Michell) – Classic Movie Review 9,627

The 1987 TV movie Miss Marple: At Bertram’s Hotel again stars Joan Hickson, who tackles her seventh case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on Agatha Christie’s 1965 novel. The sleuth finds fake identity, larceny […]

Apr, 11

Miss Marple: The Moving Finger **** (1985, Joan Hickson, Michael Culver, Elizabeth Counsell) – Classic Movie Review 9,610

Director John Boulting’s 1985 BBC two-episode TV mini-series Miss Marple: The Moving Finger stars Joan Hickson, who takes on her second case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on the 1942 novel by Agatha Christie, […]

Apr, 07

Miss Marple: The Body in the Library **** (1984, Joan Hickson, Gwen Watford, Moray Watson, Valentine Dyall, Jess Conrad) – Classic Movie Review 9607

Silvio Narizzano’s 1984 three-episode TV mini-series Miss Marple: The Body in the Library stars Joan Hickson, who takes on her first case as the BBC’s Miss Marple in a UK TV series that filmed all […]

Apr, 06

The Alphabet Murders [The ABC Murders] * (1965, Tony Randall, Robert Morley, Anita Ekberg) – Classic Movie Review 9029

Agatha Christie’s A1 vintage thriller novel The ABC Murders about a murderer apparently bumping people off alphabetically is infuriatingly played for broad and easy laughs by a miscast Tony Randall as Eurotec Hercule Poirot, and […]

Oct, 29

5 Bambole per la Luna d’Agosto [Five Dolls for an August Moon] *** (1970, William Berger, Ira von Fürstenberg, Edwige Fenech) – Classic Movie Review 7826

Director Mario Bava’s 1970 Italian giallo film 5 Bambole per la Luna d’Agosto [Five Dolls for an August Moon] is fascinating as a work of the much-admired cult film-maker and as a loose, uncredited adaptation of Agatha Christie’s novel And Then […]

Nov, 23

Dead Man’s Folly *** (1986, Peter Ustinov, Jean Stapleton, Tim Pigott-Smith, Jonathan Cecil, Constance Cummings, Nicollette Sheridan) – Classic Movie Review 7209

Director Clive Donner’s 1986 thriller Dead Man’s Folly is a diverting and ingratiating made-for-TV movie, given a considerable boost by a good production and its top-notch Anglo-American cast. The estimable Peter Ustinov entertains for the fourth […]

Jun, 23

Murder in Three Acts ** (1986, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis, Emma Samms, Jonathan Cecil, Fernando Allende, Pedro Armedariz Jr) – Classic Movie Review 7208

Director Gary Nelson’s moderate 1986 Agatha Christie murder thriller Murder in Three Acts offers a new mystery to solve for Peter Ustinov’s Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, who investigates some suspicious deaths by poison after he […]

Jun, 23

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