Death Casts a Spell
- Episódio foi ao ar 30 de dez. de 1984
- TV-PG
- 47 min
AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
7,5/10
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SUA AVALIAÇÃO
Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaA popular nightclub hypnotist is discovered murdered during a private press-call.A popular nightclub hypnotist is discovered murdered during a private press-call.A popular nightclub hypnotist is discovered murdered during a private press-call.
Fotos
José Ferrer
- Cagliostro
- (as Jose Ferrer)
Dianne Travis
- Helsema
- (as Dianne Turley Travis)
Marylou Kenworthy
- Liz
- (as Mary Lou Kenworthy)
Enredo
Você sabia?
- CuriosidadesObviously directly inspired by The Thirteenth Chair (1929) starring Bela Lugosi, with the group sitting in a circle in a seance of sorts (here, a trance) and the murder occurring while it's in progress. A knife is the murder weapon in both cases.
- Erros de gravaçãoObvious stunt double in one of the scenes of Jessica on the back of the motorcycle. The stunt double's face is visible and does not look like Angela Lansbury.
- Citações
[first lines]
Cagliostro: Ladies and gentlemen, observe the power of hypnosis! Now, volunteers, when I clap my hands, you will each become your favorite animal.
- Trilhas sonorasMurder She Wrote Theme
Written by John Addison
Avaliação em destaque
Unusual and intriguing mystery
A young staff member (Diana Canova) at Jessica's publishing firm gets Jesica to come to a Lake Tahoe resort by pretending to be the publisher's assistant. Jessica takes this better than many, and perhaps most, of us would and tells the young woman that she will overlook it and not tell the publisher. The young woman wanted to meet Jessica to pitch a story idea to her. They later attend a performance of the renown hypnotist Cagliostro - which is well played by Jose Ferrer. Cagliostro is soon revealed to be a real scumbag albeit a polished one. To prove that he is the real thing and not a fake he invites six journalists to attend a private hypnotism session and that he will tell them important information about his past but that when they awake they won't remember a thing he has told them. A group of people, including Jessica, are outside the room when they hear a bang from inside the room. Breaking in they discover Cagliostro dead and the six journalists hypnotized and motionless. Jessica, of course, investigates and as so often happens in this series she hears something that triggers her realizing the solution. Her face lights up and she says "Of course!" this is a good yarn and a good mystery ably supported by the guest stars especially Murray Hamilton and Robert Loggia. But the most interesting thing to me was to see Diana Canova in a lead role. I had to check but she is indeed Judy Canova's daughter. Judy Canova's hillbilly comedy is now long out of fashion but I still enjoy it today when listening to her radio shows. I find these shows to be funny but with no hint of the vulgarity or mean spiritedness that is standard today with comics. Those days are gone forever but seeing Diana Canova reminded me of them.
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- 1 de set. de 2012
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