The Man in the Brown Suit (1989) (TV)

Director:

Alan Grint

Writers (WGA):

Agatha Christie (book)
Carla Jean Wagner (teleplay)

Release Date:

4 January 1989 (USA)

Genre:

Mystery

Plot:

Bit of an Indiana Jones type film, with an American woman getting involved in a diamond theft in the Middle East...

Plot Keywords:

Murder | Diamond | Based On Novel | Based On Book

Cast

Rue McClanahan	...	Suzy Blair
Tony Randall	...	Rev. Edward Chichester
Edward Woodward	...	Sir Eustace Pedler
Stephanie Zimbalist	...	Anne Beddingfield
Ken Howard	...	Gordon Race
Nickolas Grace	...	Guy Underhill
Simon Dutton	...	Harry Lucas
María Casal	...	Anita (as Maria Casal)
Federico Luciano	...	Leo Carton
Rose McVeigh	...	Valerie
Jorge Bosso	...	Businessman
José Canalejas	...	Arab #1 (as Jose A. Canalejas)
Robert Case	...	Ship's Captain
Tibi Costa	...	Arab #2 (as Tiby Costa)
James Duggan	...	Steward

Also Known As:

Agatha Christie's 'The Man in the Brown Suit'

Runtime:

USA:100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:PG | Iceland:L

Filming Locations:

Spain

Company:

Alan Shayne Productions

Great TV movie

My best friend and I have watched this movie thousands of times. I taped it from the repeat airing, and apparently, this is one of the only copies in the country, and the studio didn't keep a copy. This is a great shame, the movie is a throwback to the 1970's television mysteries, they don't really do this anymore. The mystery is tweaked from the Agatha Christe book, but it doesn't suffer. The actors do a uniformly excellent job, and the use of location shooting proves what good second unit work is. The script is funny, the solution to the mystery is logical and satisfying, and if the movie was ever available on DVD, my best friend and I would pay through the nose for a pristine copy.