Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die (1994) (TV)

User Rating:

5.4/10   

Director:

Peter H. Hunt

Writers:

Sidney Sheldon (creator)
Lawrence Hertzog (written by)

Release Date:

6 May 1994 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Crime | Mystery

Plot Keywords:

Sequel | Amateur Detective | Rich | Island | Murder

Cast

Robert Wagner	...	Jonathan Hart
Stefanie Powers	...	Jennifer Hart
Lionel Stander	...	Max
David Rasche	...	Alfred Raine
James Shigeta	...	Det. Whoo
Richard Robert Redlin
David Leisure
James Avery	...	Chess Player
Paul Williams	...	Duke
Vicki Lawrence	...	Nora Kingsley
Emory Bass
Fred Willard	...	Reginald Cobbles
Mike Farrell	...	Frank Crane
Paul Tinder	...	Red Haired Man
Stan Abe	...	Staffer

Runtime:

90 min | USA:120 min (including commercials)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Company:

Columbia Pictures Television

Movie Connections:

Follows "Hart to Hart" (1979)

And then there was..an anticlimax

The ghost of Agatha hangs over this far-fetched yarn. The plot's full of implausible twists and turns which are all later revealed as plotted moves by the malign chess-player who's behind the mystery. One things that puzzles me is how come these arch-plotters can always stage-manage everything without the inevitable human cock-ups that afflict the rest of us? The psychological justifications behind this Machiavellianism are scarcely touched-the makers would prefer us to treat the movie as an old-fashioned revenge murder mystery,but set in the glorious surroundings of Hawaii. At the end of it all,the deranged baddie gets his desserts. One thing still puzzling me-the old friend of Jonathan's-Frank. Was he in on it? Why did he leave the drugged Harts in their room at the end? Why was he murdered? Was he an accomplice who needed to be silenced? And why oh why am I bothering to write this drivel about a Wednesday afternoon Channel 5 TV movie? The answers to all these questions are now out there for the rest of you lot to solve!