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Overview

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Director:

Guy Hamilton

Writers:

Jonathan Hales (screenplay) and
Barry Sandler (screenplay)
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Release Date:

19 December 1980 (USA) more

Tagline:

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the murderer among them all?

Plot:

Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim. full summary | add synopsis

Awards:

1 nomination more

User Comments:

A very good adaptation. more (50 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Angela Lansbury ... Miss Jane Marple
Wendy Morgan ... Cherry
Margaret Courtenay ... Mrs. Bantry
Charles Gray ... Bates, the Butler
Maureen Bennett ... Heather Babcock
Carolyn Pickles ... Miss Giles
Eric Dodson ... The Major
Charles Lloyd Pack ... Vicar (as Charles Lloyd-Pack)
Richard Pearson ... Doctor Haydock
Thick Wilson ... The Mayor
Pat Nye ... Mayoress
Peter Woodthorpe ... Scout Master
Geraldine Chaplin ... Ella Zielinsky

Tony Curtis ... Martin N. Fenn
Edward Fox ... Inspector Craddock
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Additional Details

Runtime:

105 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Kent, England, UK more

Company:

EMI Films more


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Trivia:

Pierce Brosnan's first brush with James Bond has him working with Guy Hamilton, director of Goldfinger (1964). It would take another 15 years before Brosnan landed the role of 007 . more

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: At the end when the lady was lying on the chaise longue she is supposed to be dead, but her chest rises and falls slightly. more

Quotes:

Inspector Delbert Craddock: [to Jason Rudd] I'm sure you'll make a fine film without the aid of Scotland Yard. I'm here about a minor matter of murder. more

Movie Connections:

References A Chump at Oxford (1940) more


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12 out of 16 people found the following comment useful.
A very good adaptation., 3 July 2002
Author: Leopold-4 (yanay@hotmail.com) from Toronto, Canada

Being a fan of both Agatha Christie, Angela Lansbury, and Rock Hudson I watched this film with pleasure. The cast here has done a great job, everybody is convincing, even Liz Taylor, although her acting is at times overdone, as usual. The movie has a good pace, dialogues are witty and humorous, and the mystery itself engaging. I think the proportions of each character's involvement in the story are true to the original (I was afraid they'd make Miss Marple into an action figure or something, but was glad to see she stayed in the background to make her grand entrance in the finale). All in all, it's a very good and convincing adaptation of Christie's book.

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