Murder Is Easy

TV Movie
19821982
1h 30m

IMDb RATING

6.1/10

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Lesley-Anne Down, Bill Bixby, and Helen Hayes in Murder Is Easy (1982)

Crime Mystery

An American computer expert meets a distraught old lady on a train and she tells him that a homicidal maniac is stalking her quiet little village.An American computer expert meets a distraught old lady on a train and she tells him that a homicidal maniac is stalking her quiet little village.An American computer expert meets a distraught old lady on a train and she tells him that a homicidal maniac is stalking her quiet little village.

IMDb RATING

6.1/10

800

YOUR RATING

- Claude Whatham
- Agatha Christie(novel)
- Carmen Culver(teleplay)
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Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 1 nomination total

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Olivia de Havilland, Lesley-Anne Down, Bill Bixby, and Helen Hayes in Murder Is Easy (1982)

Lesley-Anne Down and Bill Bixby in Murder Is Easy (1982)

Bette Davis, Peter Ustinov, and Helen Hayes in Murder Is Easy (1982)

Jonathan Pryce and Bill Bixby in Murder Is Easy (1982)

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Trivia
Luke's book is "Probability and Chance".

Goofs
At the beginning of the film Luke Williams is seen aboard a loco hauled train. The shots of the train on the journey alternate between this train and an Inter City 125.

Connections
References For Your Eyes Only (1981)

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Featured review

7/10

Decent, helped by the cast

This is not an outstanding film by all means, but it is a very decent one, that is faithful in story, tone and dialogue to the book. The story is compelling and interesting, hindered only really by the nonsense with the computers which was underdeveloped and added very little to the story.

The pace starts very briskly, and Helen Hayes brings a lot of charm to her brief role, but once more in the story unfolds it gets slower up to the conclusion, which is well-paced and rounds things off nicely as it should do. Bill Bixby starts off rather wooden and dull, but gets better.

That said, the production values are excellent, the photography is pleasing on the eye and the costumes and scenery are beautiful. The music has some nice parts as well, the direction is decent and the dialogue is charming, controlled and witty. The cast do do very well, while some of the characters could have been developed a tad more, the cast do great jobs especially Lesley-Anne Down, Olivia DeHavilland and Timothy West.

All in all, a decent film and adaptation. 7/10 Bethany Cox

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