The Man in the Brown Suit (1989 TV Movie) User Reviews

Watchable, though slow paced

[shakspryn · 6/10 · 2 July 2017]

This could have been a lot better. Stephanie Zimbalist and Simon Dutton are good as the leads with romantic sparks. The rest of the cast is good, but the script does not give them much chance to show their talents.

The main problem is with the pacing. The set-up to the story is interesting, but the action really drags at times, especially near the end. On the plus side, this is a basically enjoyable little movie, and a reminder of the now-vanished art form of the network TV-movie! I think it would have been more fun, had the producers chosen to set it in the 1920's or 1930's, prime Agatha Christie periods; but perhaps budget issues made them make it contemporary.

Bottom line: a modest, fairly enjoyable light mystery with some humor, and two leads with charm. Not a standout mystery film, but not bad.

Enjoyable lightweight Agatha Christie mystery

[gridoon2024 · 6/10 · 23 May 2008]

Some aspects don't work too well (there is a man appearing in two different female disguises but neither looks real; the 7-11-22 message turns out to be 71-1-22, but when we see it for the first time, it is CLEARLY 7-11-22), but on the whole "The Man in The Brown Suit" is a pleasant little diversion, and worth a look for any Agatha Christie / mystery fan. The story is intriguing enough and holds your attention, the locations are pleasing, the stunts are well-executed, and the finale has just the right fairy-tale quality. Stephanie Zimbalist is a rather attractive and likable heroine (the nicest touch to her character is her jumping onto a departing train and then teasing the men who were chasing her; I could have done without the ridiculous scene of her jumping onto a bed when she sees a dead rat, though) and she is surrounded by a capable cast - Rue McClanahan and Edward Woodward are the standouts. Keep in mind that this is a TV movie and you'll probably enjoy it. (**1/2)

An Enticing Pot Boiler

[TED-26 · 7/10 · 11 March 1999]

Rue McClanahan as her trademark southern matron on-the-make teams with Stephanie Zimbalist, an American photographer seeking adventure in this "Perils of Pauline" style of pot boiler. Complete with CIA agent -- Ken Howard, wealthy British heavy -- Edward Woodward, and Christie's standard "red herring" the bumbling Tony Randall, who performs in both clerical garb and drag, combine to be entertaining in this Agatha Christie mystery. Zimbalist manages to cross Eastern Africa without luggage but with occasional change of wardrobe -- including a flashy harem girl costume on a boat that moves north along the coast of Africa, when the plot says it's going south. In the style of Hollywood "B" of an earlier age, it comes off funky and cute.

Corny, but enjoyable!

[dac87 · 9 July 2005]

Being a fan of Agatha Christie, I searched for this rare TV movie for quite some time. All of the VHS copies I found were in PAL and as I live in America, I was unable to view them. When I located a DVD copy of this film I pounced on it and wasn't horribly disappointed. Anne Beddingford has purposely put herself on the wrong plane and ends up in Cairo. She encounters an accident when a man runs in front of a taxi to get away from someone. All that she has as a clue now is a small bit of paper and a glimpse of the "man in the brown suit" who has been linked to a beautiful night club singer's murder. The plot thickens and Anne finds herself in a sea of suspects and, later, on the killer's hit list. While the plot line has been changed quite a bit, this film still has the undeniable touch of Christie to it. Many of the characters are a bit phony (the heroine Anne) and others were almost unbearably BAD (Tony Randolff), but they are overshadowed by Rue McClannahan, whom I thought stole the show. The plot is far more exciting than other Christie books. There are a couple killings, a couple attempted killings, a love story, and a kidnapping sequence. I enjoyed the film, it had a campy edge to it which made it kinda fun.

Throwback 70s Mystery- yes, Agatha Christie - no

[Voyeur_Femme · 6/10 · 9 December 2006]

This is definitely nostalgic and reminiscent of those great unreal late 70s mystery-dramas, but this is IN NO WAY related to the Christie's book. The book is set in the early 1920s and deals with an orphan who spends her last few dollars to travel by ship to South Africa after witnessing an accident in the tube station and finding a scrap of paper (referencing the ship) on his body. This '89 version could have held its own as a made for TV piece and need not try to take credit as any sort of adaptation of the novel - because it definitely isn't. There are some great moments in this one though - the crossdresser is great but Zimbalist is FAR too precocious and the plot is ridiculous (it's filled with unreal 70s style nonsense - getting on the wrong plane by accident and ending up in Egypt for one, among others.) But all in all, it's cute if you like that early 80s made-for-TV mystery. And, incidentally, UK TV plays it periodically so even if you didn't tape it off American TV in 1989, you could still catch it from time to time in England.

Enjoyable TV mystery movie- better than the critics give credit for

[TheLittleSongbird · 6/10 · 2 October 2009]

I did like Man in the Brown Suit, while it does have its problems, it is enjoyable and not as bad as critics say it is. An obvious redeeming quality is the exotic locations used in the film. The music is lovely too. The acting is not so bad- Stephanie Zimbalist makes for a good heroine, if rather gamine at times. Simon Dutton is merely eye candy, and Ken Howard is unusually bland as Race, but it is Tony Randall who gives the worst performance of the movie. However, the two actors who steal the film are Rue McClannahan and Edward Woodward, both gave great performances I thought. The mystery is absorbing and fast paced, though I do admit I haven't read the book, so I can't judge whether it's faithful or not. However, the script does have its weak spots, and there are one or two predictable scenes in the middle half.

Overall, flawed but enjoyable TV mystery movie. 6/10 Bethany Cox

The movie was garbage

[risarah28 · 1/10 · 28 June 2010]

For major fans of the book (such as I), you will be extremely disappointed in the movie. I watched it for 15 minutes and was done. I was hoping to see an adventure film set in the early 1920's with Anne being portrayed as a young, charming, and clever girl on her first adventure who encounters romance and thrills. The movie is nothing like this. It is set in late eighties/early nineties and every detail from the book has been thoroughly twisted and overdone. I am truly disappointed. It is true that my opinion stems largely from the fact that The Man In The Brown Suit is my favorite book of all time, and I am a huge fan of Agatha Christie. When I saw this DVD in the library, I was absolutely shocked that it existed and could not wait to go home and find the time to watch it. For those of you who have not read the book...I'm at a loss for words due to my own biased opinion except to say the acting is cheesy and there is nothing quaint or cute about this film at all.

Fun Agatha Christie murder mystery

[jhaggardjr · 7/10 · 22 June 2000]

"The Man in the Brown Suit", a made-for-TV movie adapted from an Agatha Christie novel, is lightweight entertainment. While its not quite in the same league as the great 1978 theatrical release "Death on the Nile" or even 1974's "Murder on the Orient Express", it's still an interesting murder mystery. Stephanie Zimbalist stars as a woman looking for adventure in Egypt. She stumbles across an accident that is linked to a recent murder. She follows a clue onto a cruise ship that features the usual assortment of odd, colorful characters. Among the passengers she meets: Edward Woodward as a man of English royalty; Rue McClanahan as a southern belle (who at times seems to be playing her "Golden Girls" character Blanche); Tony Randall as a reverend with a awkward speaking voice; and Ken Howard as a CIA operative who's tracking the mystery himself. She also meets the mystery man of the title. Most of the performances are good except for Randall who's miscast badly (especially when he turns up in a couple of different roles that I won't go into), and the film for the most part is entertaining. Worth a look if you can find it on TV.

*** (out of four)

Holy Pancakes!

[rmax304823 · 5/10 · 8 February 2016]

Stephanie Zimbalist is a young woman taking her first trip to the "Africa" where she witnesses a deliberate murder and hears it linked to another. She winds up sailing on a ship that has a number of other passengers -- Ken White, Tony Randall as a creepy minister, Rue McLanahan, Edward Woodward who, if you don't recognize him, you should see in "The Wicker Man," where his performance will lift your toupée. They are all somehow suspect in the theft of a king's ransom worth of diamonds. Of course we expect that if we are Agatha Christie fans.

Zimbalist brings nothing much to the movie except her Remington Steele TV persona, innocence and wonder, rather like Nancy Drew. Does she find herself in danger? Of course she does. Didn't Nancy Drew? That's okay. There's a marvelous sensuality about her that is impossible to mask. Maybe it's her eyes, because when they squint at someone they always seem to be calculating the risk/reward ratio of events that shouldn't even be entertained by such a practical and pure young lady. For all her fluttering around, her pronounced sternocleidomastoids give her a formidable athletic appearance as of the kind of woman who, once she decides what she wants, throws herself into the pursuit avidly. That intense dark stare of hers signals not only attention but lascivious intent. Don't try to kid the kid.

It's light-hearted and deliberately overacted, as suits a made-for-television movie. Nobody takes his role seriously, least of all the barely recognizable Tony Randall as the sinister minister. The mystery has to do with who committed the murders, why, and what about the fortune in stolen diamonds. Is the mystery solved to everyone's satisfaction? No power on earth could drag the answer from me.

Woodward great in okay film

[scott-palmer2 · 6/10 · 5 September 2009]

The Man in the Brown Suit is the last of some 1980s TV movies made as US/UK co-productions for CBS TV. Changing the location to Cairo (the film was actually shot in Madrid and Cadiz) does the story no harm. Ken Westbury's beautiful photography of cascading waterfalls and other lush scenery is certainly an asset, and Alan Shayne's high production values make the film worth watching. The script is fairly well-written by Carla Jean Wagner.

Once again, second-tier American TV actors associated with current or recently past CBS productions, are included (as well as Tony Randall). Stephanie Zimbalist is a little too cutesy at times, while Rue McClanahan thinks this film is another episode of The Golden Girls. Ken Howard is bland and mediocre at the best of times.

On the other hand the aforementioned actors' British counterparts show them what acting is all about. Best in the cast is Edward Woodward, a great talent who gives a splendid performance. Woodward had just finished a five-year run on CBS as Robert McCall in "The Equalizer," and that may have had something to do with him being in this film (lucky for us!!!). Simon Dutton, who was starring as Simon Templar in TV films of "The Saint" at this time (1988-89) is quite good as "the man in the brown suit." And Nickolas Grace is also quite effective as secretary Guy Underhill.

Warner Brothers' TV policy was to cast actors who were identifiable to TV audiences in the U.S, which does not mean they chose people of great talent or suitability to the roles. They should have taken a lesson from the BBC, Thames TV, London Weekend TV and ITV, all of whom flawlessly cast their productions with actors reflecting the character of their parts, capturing the wonderful flavour of Agatha Christie's writing.

Don't bother, stick to the book. Or wait until a decent adaptation arises

[Janet1612 · 1/10 · 8 October 2022]

Oh this is awful. If the lead actress didn't quite overact it may have improved things -slightly.

I was expecting the story in the book. With Ann, a Londoner in the 1930s whose dad dies and she witnesses an accident at the tube station, a man takes something from the body.

Here we have a similar story but set in 1988 and with a loud American, who seems to think everyone around her is deaf. Ann witnesses an accident and a man in a brown suit takes something from the body (not a roll of film as in the book). The actress playing Ann is awful, as is the script. The way she get close, very close to her fellow actors (Col Race when they first meet) could be seen as assault. She's too jaunty, too silly - ooh shall I go home or stay here? Oooh I'll stay here an have an adventure!!! This from a forty year old woman.

Tony Randall probably thinks he's giving the performance of a life time but, sadly not.

Suzy played by another annoying actress.

The ten foot tall masculine stewardess - really?

The opening credits should read 'LOOSELY' based on a wonderful Agatha Christie book - and we've completely changed everything but the characters.

With a different actress, different script, and if they'd stuck to the book, this may have been half decent.

Ann and her blooming camera - and her fancy dress costume - really. When she's grabbed by Harry, her face has such an over the top expression I was hoping he'd strangle her!

Amongst the many annoying moments (the fancy dress costumes is one) - for all us stupid viewers we are shown flashbacks of what Ann remembers; just in case our poor brains couldn't keep up with this deeply complicated plot! 'oooh' says Ann, as we're shown the flashback, 'the man in the brown suit took was at the accident' . Oh dear.

Fun, based on a wonderful Agatha Christie novel

[istara · 8/10 · 3 December 2003]

This film is fun, but of course does not live up to the original novel. (It's been Americanised for one thing). That said, the cast is strong, and the plot has plenty of intrigue.

But read the book - it's one of Agatha's best adventure novels (as opposed to Country- House-Body-in-the-Library novels) and the mystery is pretty good too.

Stephanie is charming!

[skarylarry-93400 · 6/10 · 13 March 2022]

The movie wasn't bad. Stephanie was very good and adorable! She carried this film with a not so good script! She never looked so good. Her acting was very believable!

Fun adventure based on very early Christie

[lfisher0264 · 5/10 · 1 January 2008]

People like to badmouth Christie for writing "cosy" mysteries set in English villages where everyone has servants and all the characters are made of cardboard. She wrote some in that genre, but also subtly sent it up, and Miss Marple always said that if you really wanted to see life in the raw you should live in a village. Man in the Brown Suit is NOT a cosy village mystery, but a thriller of the type Christie wrote from time to time. In the book it's quite clear that it's a take off of The Perils of Pauline. Christie also used a trip she'd made round the world with a larger than life character that she turned into Sir Eustace Pedler. (PS her husband went too.) She even manages to get in her favourite sport - surfing. (Bet you never knew Agatha was a keen surfer.) I'd love to see this film again. The makers don't seem sure whether or not it's a spoof, and spoof Christies never work. (There's an awful version of the ABC Murders - and didn't that star one Tony Randall?) Tony Randall is awful in this. The character should be able to convince whatever getup he is wearing. The film is saved by sticking to the book and by casting actors who do a good job whatever they're asked to do (Edward Woodward, Rue McLanahan step forward). The stuffy secretary Padgett is brilliantly played by Nickolas Grace, miserable in an Elvis costume that was the only fancy dress in the shop that fitted.

It's a mystery all right.

[SanDiego · 18 September 2000]

Uneven Agatha Christie adaptation with great locales, a swift adventure pace, and an odd assortment of acting styles from an equally odd assortment of then popular TV stars. Ken Howard ("The White Shadow") does a Humphrey Bogart spoof, Tony Randall ("The Odd Couple") does comedy skit impersonations, Rue McClanahan ("Golden Girls") plays her familiar Blanche character, Edward Woodward ("The Equalizer") is doing light theater, and Stephanie Zimbalist ("Remington Steele") at times looks like Pinocchio with wooden legs trying to balance on her two feet. I can't tell if the film was badly miscast (Tony Randall's role should really been done with an unknown unrecognizable actor), badly scripted, or just bad direction choices. My guess, a little of each. Imagine the director telling each of his actors that they were in a different type of film (spoof, mystery, adventure, drama, comedy, etc...) and you get an idea of what happens on screen. Still, the pace, humor, and locales actually make this one of the most enjoyable Christie inspired efforts and one you won't likely be nodding off to. Maybe there is a method to the madness afterall, or at least a purpose. I taped this film during it's original broadcast in 1989 and still watch it from time to time as a guilty pleasure. Go figure.

OK but Book is better

[LeaAnnSD · 6/10 · 22 October 2006]

This movie definitely reinforces my policy of watching a movie before reading the book that it is based on. This movie is fine if you watch it and then read the book, almost like a warm up for the actual story. Rue McClanahan and Edward Woodward save this movie! Without their believable quirkiness so much of this movie would have been both over the top and silly. They keep it moving in the right direction when at times it can feel like it's trying to veer off course a little. The book itself is Wonderful! One of my favorites of Agatha Christie's. But I don't know if my review of the movie would have been as favorable if I'd gotten my hands on the book first.

Not the film I remembered

[lucyrfisher · 6/10 · 28 December 2023]

My last viewing of this film must be longer ago than I imagined. I sat through it wondering why it had been remade... with the original cast... No, this is the one and only Man in the Brown Suit. We're halfway through and still on the Kilmorden Castle. When she booked her cabin, why did Anne /never ask where the ship was bound/? There are things to enjoy: Anne is the character from the book, a feisty heroine for our times. (Originally the 1920s.) I'm sure that line about "Women view every man they meet as a possible husband, if not for themselves then for one of their friends" is straight from Christie herself. The book was based on a trip she and her husband took round the world on a kind of trade mission. Her husband was in the role of Underhill! The original Sir Eustace was an irritating fellow called Belper.

As others have said, the pace is very slow. I may stick with it for the clothes.

Not in Cairo at all

[mohdhussmh · 1/10 · 20 April 2024]

As an Egyptian , I assure you that the scenes which are supposed to be shot in Cairo , are not in Cairo at all, and the people in the scene are not Egyptians too, we don't have camels moving around in streets along with cars .. that was really funny. I was shocked to see such a lie, and such a bad presentation for Cairo life. It is totally fake and after i saw this i became no more interested in watching this movie. I have seen many movies of Agatha christy with honesty in all aspects, and this is actually one of the things people watch movies for, they say oh, Egypt is so nice, i wish i could visit, but this way , if people with taste watch this and see the camels on the street, they will say nooooooooooooo way , what an uncivilized country.

Emphasis on comedy

[Iain-215 · 6/10 · 2 August 2008]

This is one of the few Agatha Christie novels that I have not read so I am not in a position to say how faithful or otherwise this adaptation is. It's a fast moving TV movie starring many famous TV faces of the time (late eighties). Although a thriller, the emphasis is mainly on comedy with Stephanie Zimbalist very likable and endearing as 'girl in search of adventure' Anne Beddingfield. She has a suitably square jawed, handsome hero to team up with in Simon Dutton and is surrounded by an assortment of rather two dimensional 'suspects' including Edward Woodward being VERY English and Rue McClanahan being VERY Southern and basically replaying Blanche from 'The Golden Girls'. Tony Randall shows that he is definitely NOT a master of disguise and there is a very funny episode towards the end when the ladies 'fail to recognise him'. There are a few moments like this (Anne escaping from the worst cell ever, the prat-fall over the edge of the waterfall etc) which one is never quite sure if they are meant to be funny or not.

On the whole this is quite enjoyable fluff but I must now read the novel which I believe is a far superior tale.

Who's the Colonel?

[kapelusznik18 · 5/10 · 14 November 2016]

***SPOILERS*** Much too confusing and complicated in watching the first time around movie that has to do with diamond smugglers globe hopping operation from Africa to Europe to South America with this man in a brown suit Harry Lucas, Simon Dutton,having something to do with all this mysterious goings on. It's Lucas who was spotted by American tourist Anne Beddingfeld, Stephanie Zimbalist,in Cairo Egypt at the airport where she witnessed a fatal car accident. It' turns out that the person who tried to come to the accident victim's aid was non other then Harry Lucas who after going through his jacket suddenly checked out of sight. Playing detective Anne soon runs into all kinds of troubles where she ends up on a ocean cruise to Africa and then is kidnapped and threatened with death by the Colonel, the mystery man in the movie, as well as ends up exposing a major diamond smuggling ring run out of South America with white South African hoods.

It's Anne together with her dizzy friend Suzy Blair, Rue McClanahan, as well as Lucas who track down who's behind this smuggle ring-The Colonel-but only after a number of member of the cast end up getting murdered by him and one of his henchman Rev. Edward Chichester played by Tony Randall in a Doctor Strangelove-paying three different people-type role. As for Anne herself she escapes to murder attempts herself one on the cruise boat and another on land when the killer, The Rev- rolled a one ton bolder in her direction that had her fall almost to her death down a waterfall.

****SPOILERS****We also have the CIA involved in all this in that one of the characters in the film and the person who everyone thinks is the Colonel is working for the agency and uses both Anne and Lucas to expose the smuggler as well as killer. The not so unpredictable ending has to killer blow his cover in feeling he'll never get caught only to have the wool or rug pulled from under him and leave him, by losing his firearm, in a helpless situation. As for Anne and Lucas, who's really an English Barron, they decide to get married with Suzy, who been married six times before, taking off with the CIA agent who developed the hots for Suzy the moment he first saw her!

I Liked the Movie

[smortslori · 8/10 · 3 February 2005]

Not all Agatha Christie movies are written true to form of her books. Of course, what movie is really? This is a charming adventure with a young woman tired of her humdrum life looking for more excitement. She soon finds it with a romance and a mystery. The gorgeous leading man and the cute leading lady (Stephanie Zimbalist) make for a cute couple. Had me guessing things until the very end the first time I saw this, and I have a taped copy (wish I had the original now). Interesting not to have the typical Miss Marple or Hercules Poirot characters and yet lends one to wanting to read the book. Tony Randall was quite funny with his different characters. I believe this is well-worth the viewing.

Superb fun

[istara · 8/10 · 4 October 2005]

The advantage of seeing this film in 2005 is that although it isn't the the 1930s period piece it should be, it's so screamingly outdated 1980s through-and-through that you still enjoy quite a "vintage" feel.

Various plot details have been adjusted, but it's still fairly true to the text. The back-story is properly there, nicely simplified. Zimbalist (Anne Beddingfeld) isn't quite gamine enough for Beddingfeld, she looks rather motherly against Dutton (The Man in the Brown Suit) in several scenes, but all in all gives a solid performance. Dutton is good eye-candy and is properly brooding, like his book version, but his voice is disappointingly light and he's not the most credible action hero. You can't really imagine him doing it tough in the Brazilian jungle, at any rate. Pedants will note that he is also not "markedly brachycephalic".

McClanahan (Suzy Blair) is basically replaying "Blanche" from the Golden Girls here, and as such is outstanding, possibly the most enjoyable thing in the film. Ken Howard (Gordon Race) isn't quite what one imagines from the book, and his romantic intentions have also been realigned, but in a way that makes for a more satisfying ending.

No surprise they change the ending vis-a-vis The Man's inheritance to please an American audience, however. It is arguably more fairy-tale like the way the film has done it.

Getting hold of this film was a nightmare, after having only seen half of it on TV years back. In the end I got it via Sendit.com, but it took nearly a year on their Search list before a copy came in, and then was only available in VHS format. I actually had to go and buy a player just for this film, (which luckily was worth it). It would be brilliant if some company could start printing DVDs-on-demand for minority interest/cult films such as this.

It was all over me like a cheap suit!

[skmcg_man · 8/10 · 21 August 2004]

MOST PROBABLY CONTAINS *SPOILERS*

STARRING Stephanie Zimbalist, Edward Woodward, Tony Randall, Rue McClanahan, Ken Howard, Simon Dutton, Nickolas Grace, María Casal

I must start by saying that I have loved Agatha Christie's works for as long as I can remember. As a teenager I spent ages (and a berluddy fortune) tracking down her books at book exchanges and book fairs, and was always there with a tape in the VCR to record any Agatha Christie movie that came on TV.

Every Christie-phile worth their weight in doughnuts absolutely loves the Christie film classics: You know, Murder on the Orient Express; Death on the Nile; The Mirror Crack'd; Evil Under the Sun. David Suchet's Poirot series (though plodding at times) has proven very popular, as has Joan Hickson's wrinkly Miss Marple series. And there is of course an audience for the lesser Christies: The TV-movie adaptations, for example, Dead Man's Folly; Sparkling Cyanide; Murder in Three Acts; and, The Man in the Brown Suit - the subject of this review.

While not the best Christie film, and by no means the most colourful, The Man in the Brown Suit makes for pretty good TV-movie fodder, with a fairly engaging plot, decent enough production values, and interesting African locales. What really makes this TV-movie watchable is the fantastic cast of actors. And, I mean, who really gives two hoots that most of them are TV Land Staples. Witness ... if you dare: Stephanie "Remington Steele" Zimbalist; Edward "The Equalizer" Woodward; Tony "The Odd Couple" Randall; Rue "The Golden Girls" McClanahan; Ken "Dynasty" Howard; Simon "The Saint" Dutton; Nickolas "Robin of Sherwood" Grace. Phew!

American actress Zimbalist plays lead character Anne Beddingfield (an Englishwoman in the book, by the way) as a kind of tough, adventurous and resourceful heroine in a nod to the Indiana Jones series, and is ably supported by Suzy Blair, played by McClanahan (who doesn't seem to mind playing her Golden Girls character, Blanche - Or maybe she was forced at gunpoint to do just that??). Dutton plays man-on-the-run Harry Lucas, a handsome Brit who possesses not only some important information, but a secret hankering for some down-and-dirty time with foxy Anne. Woodward has a ball (and I do mean a ball) playing crook Sir Eustace Pedler, and Tony Randall amuses as the fumbling, bumbling, and mumbling Pedler henchman/chameleon.

What's hilarious is that throughout the movie the characters keep running into each other, like, Africa's the equivalent of some small town, you know, where bumping into one's neighbors is a sure bet.

And finally, no review of The Man in the Brown Suit would be complete unless it included comment on that zingy little Spanish starlet María Casal, who plays bad girl with matching bad haircut, Anita. Casal's Anita spends most of her screen time writhing around in the back of a beatup taxi staring at a scrap of paper with some ridiculous code scribbled on it, all the while beaming from ear to ear like some grinning idiot! Now that's what I call acting! Pity she gets blown away by bad guy Pedler moments later. That'll teach her not to wear her seatbelt!

SEE IT OR ELSE!

how heart can make things different

[silvia-23 · 22 February 2001]

Knowing perfectly this is not and extraordinary movie, I have liked it anyway.

I find it especially light even sweet...I have been loving the book very much which is far better than the movie but I think every woman will like the romantic female (zimbalist) leading the film, though seeing the movie imagination has to work a little bit further.

Great TV movie

[ibeleaf · 10/10 · 9 July 2005]

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.