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Miss Jane Marple comes to solve the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.Miss Jane Marple comes to solve the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.Miss Jane Marple comes to solve the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
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- 2 nominations
Charles Lloyd Pack
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- (as Charles Lloyd-Pack)
- Director
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- TriviaAlthough Miss Jane Marple is presented as elderly, and the leading men as middle-aged, Dame Angela Lansbury, Tony Curtis, and Rock Hudson were all born in 1925.
- GoofsSet 1953, Marty Fenn drives a 1959 model car.
- Quotes
Marina Rudd: Lola, dear, you know, there are really only two things I dislike about you.
Lola Brewster: Really? What are they?
Marina Rudd: Your face.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits prologue: 1953
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Big names and mixed performances in an unsatisfying Christie mystery
They gathered an amazing celebrity cast for this, many of whom were top Hollywood draws in their younger years.
Unfortunately the performances are really inconsistent which takes the shine off things.
Liz Taylor is probably the biggest name and also the most variable. In some scenes she is fantastic, in others she is barely there, with a predilection for delivering her lines under a "beauty light" which I doubt was the director's choice.
Rock Hudson stands out and is the heart of the story. Kim Novak has the funniest lines as Taylor's siren rival. Tony Curtis is good too.
But Angela Lansbury's Jane Marple simply isn't on screen enough, with Edward Fox's wooden police officer doing far too much of the in-person investigation before Miss Marple weaves her magic.
And the reveal, although authentic to the book, is a bit too unexpected to be really satisfying.
Unfortunately the performances are really inconsistent which takes the shine off things.
Liz Taylor is probably the biggest name and also the most variable. In some scenes she is fantastic, in others she is barely there, with a predilection for delivering her lines under a "beauty light" which I doubt was the director's choice.
Rock Hudson stands out and is the heart of the story. Kim Novak has the funniest lines as Taylor's siren rival. Tony Curtis is good too.
But Angela Lansbury's Jane Marple simply isn't on screen enough, with Edward Fox's wooden police officer doing far too much of the in-person investigation before Miss Marple weaves her magic.
And the reveal, although authentic to the book, is a bit too unexpected to be really satisfying.
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- Also known as
- Agatha Christie's The Mirror Crack'd
- Filming locations
- Shoreham, Kent, England, UK(Shoreham was used to double up as part of the village of St Mary Mead)
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $11,000,000
- Gross worldwide
- $11,000,000
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