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Everything n the last paragraph gives off the impression that Agatha Christine’s adaptation is extremely boring. I feel that everyone, at least once in their life, has happened to hear the name Agatha Christine. However, if none of these names are ringing a bell, then it is safe to say that it’s not really any of these box-office films. While many guess that it should have been changed to something that can actually sell, the reason is bound to be far more complicated than these. As one can tell, it really isn’t a good structure for a political movie. And, to cut the long story short, I took the matter into my hands and went to the BBC iplayer claiming exactly what I deserve.
Natalie Wood unceremoniously exited this ensemble cast snoozer one week before shooting began, and Dame Elizabeth Taylor, who was going through an unwatchable dreck phase that rivaled Richard Burton’s 70’s career, stepped in; yes, I have actually suffered through The Blue Bird and A Little Night Music, and this fleeting comment is as close as I will ever get to critiquing those pieces of mildewed sludge. It is hard to imagine her living for three decades after this, but she seems to be on death’s doorstep, appearing as Marina Rudd, a veteran Hollywood actress who, along with her husband Jason (a disheveled Rock Hudson), is descending on the sleepy English village of Mary St Meade with a film crew. Rudd. Rudd is supposedly making a historical drama about the rivalry between Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I, but her co-star Lola Brewster (Kim Novak) sends her through sub All About Eve cat fights while capturing her on screen. Tony Curtis in a toupee, Geraldine Chaplin, and some others murder a lady after one of Marina Rudd’s fans kills her by poisoning her favorite drink, and on the case are Inspector Craddock (Edward Fox) and, yes, Miss Marple, but Angela Lansbury plays her.
Somehow, Lansbury fails to make much of a fist of a and s Taylor is unconvincing as an aging actress in her single film. Jessica Fletcher from Murder she Wrote is certainly one of the more difficult roles to play, but I don’t think that qualifies as ‘elene’ either.
One of my notes titled ‘can mashed carrots cure cat eczema’ illustrates how far I have drifted, or, put more fairly, how badly the whole script is written. This is self-parody, why not pop while trying to keep these waxworks to life? Doris Day and John Huston are included along with the other self-parodying stereotypes. Looking forward to the scene where Pierce Brosnan emerges with his head missing from a Taylor bodice in remarkable astonishment as if the nose of a bike was hidden in the Forbes bike rack. And we have not yet explored the most unpleasant concoction to come out of this. Spoiler alert; inspired by a real-life ‘famous’ Hollywood cover-up which I will not bother dignifying by bringing up, a child born due to severe pregnancy infection contextually as a retarded imbecile in the womb is something no decent human being would consider turning into a plot point. To reward you for watching a ‘bubbly’ entertainment, set in 1980, that’s an unsurprising hard no even when you’re in the deepest, darkest, unenlightened corner.
Still, this film earns another star on its rating due to a saving grace that emerges in the film at the beginning. The whodunnit Marple solves effortlessly is entertaining the locals in a decaying cinema. Casual diners like Dinah Sheridan, Nigel Stock, Allan Cuthbertson, Tarquin from Terry and June, and Hollywood actors Anthony Steel and Hildegard Neil all seem to make an appearance here. This old movie genre murder At Midnight gets everything from the stale tone to the inter-tech best done and yes, it did have a similar opening curtain in a theatre setting for Murder She Wrote, which was much, much more superior to this geriatric ‘killed over a dozen times with ‘dove in a waxwork museum’ style remodel.’
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