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7.2/10   59 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Leonard Stern (teleplay) and
Hugh Wheeler (teleplay) ...
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Release Date:
18 December 1972 (USA) more
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Plot:
A spinster and her widowed sister, who are also mystery writers, try to track down the killer of a former movie star. full summary | add synopsis
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enjoyable more (2 total)

Cast

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Helen Hayes ... Ernesta Snoop
Mildred Natwick ... Gwendolyn Snoop Nicholson
Charlie Callas ... Charlie
Jill Clayburgh ... Mary Nero
Bill Dana ... Melvin Kaplan
Ed Flanders ... Milo Perkins
Kurt Kasznar ... Alexander Scalamdri

Edward Platt ... Julius Nero (as Ed Platt)
Kent Smith ... Warren Packer
Craig Stevens ... Charles Corman
Fritz Weaver ... Anton de Tourolet
Lawrence Pressman ... Lieutenant Steven Ostrowski

Paulette Goddard ... Norma Treet

Art Carney ... Barney
Iggie Wolfington ... Frank
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Female Instinct (USA) (reissue title)
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Runtime:
100 min
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Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
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Paulette Goddard's final TV and final filmed acting performance. more
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6 out of 7 people found the following review useful.
enjoyable, 9 June 2005
8/10
Author: blanche-2 from United States

A great cast is the whole reason to watch "The Snoop Sisters" if you get the chance. Helen Hayes, Mildred Natwick, Paulette Goddard, Jill Clayburgh, Art Carney are delightful in this whodunit. A very young Jill Clayburgh plays the daughter of Norma Treet (Goddard), a former movie star who is writing her scandalous memoirs and is murdered.

There are lots of funny lines and scenes in this TV movie. My favorite belongs to Helen Hayes, when it's suggested that Goddard's phone may be out of order. Someone suggests calling the phone company. "Oh, they least of anyone care if your phone is out of order!" she exclaims. Unfortunately, the TV series that was born from this pilot (I assume) didn't really take off, which is a shame. It was, like the Ellery Queen series starring Jim Hutton, ahead of its time. The era of "Murder, She Wrote" and "The Golden Girls" would have suited the series much better. Timing, after all, is everything.

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