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Mirror Crack'd (Widescreen)

Angela Lansbury (Actor), Tony Curtis (Actor), Guy Hamilton (Director) | Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | Format: DVD
3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

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Angela Lansbury does the honors as Agatha Christie's determined sleuth, Miss Marple, in this adaptation of Christie's novel. A washed-up movie star (Elizabeth Taylor) is attempting to make a comeback but is driven to distraction by a mysterious event from her past. Also problematic for Taylor's struggling actress is a series of murders occurring with clockwork regularity in the quiet, 1950s English village where a film is being produced--killings that are all somehow connected to her. Despite the British backdrop, most of the suspects, including Rock Hudson, Kim Novak, and Tony Curtis, are American in this 1980 feature directed by Guy Hamilton (Evil Under the Sun). (At least Miss Marple's nephew, the redoubtable Inspector Craddock, is played by Edward Fox.) The bad news: this is a curiously flat, monotonous film, with a mystery hook that, sad to say, is among Christie's more familiar and predictable. Hamilton doesn't demand much of his largely ornamental cast, and they don't volunteer much to fill the void. Still, fans of Miss Marple and Christie, especially those with a burning hunger to see every film or television program based on the books, will want to check it out. This DVD edition is presented in the film's original widescreen format, and it includes television spots that were part of the film's marketing at the time of its theatrical release. --Tom Keogh

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3.0 out of 5 stars Humourous and Likeable, Jan 6 2004
This review is from: Mirror Crack'd (Widescreen) (DVD)
It's not big, it's not terribly clever, and it won't change the way anyone thinks about anything at all, but this 1980 version of one of Agatha Christie's less-loved novels of the same name is still an enjoyable tale of murder and gentle rebuke.

Set in a highly stereotypical American vision of the 1950's English countryside, the whole town is abuzz when Lola Brewster (Kim Novak) and Marina Rudd (Elizabeth Taylor) take up residence to film a production of 'Mary, Queen of Scots'. When one of Ms. Rudd's long-time fans is murdered at a reception given for the Star, Miss Marple (Angela Lansbury) and her nephew Inspector Delbert Craddock (Edward Fox) investigate the crime.

Script and direction are nothing more than diverting, with a nod here and there to the likes of Joan Crawford and Bette Davis - the two movie Queens feud continually - and some extremely clever one-liners - Ms. Taylor's line about Doris Day takes on a whole new level of meaning, as her director husband Jason is played by Rock Hudson. As Christie's well-loved sleuth, Angela Lansbury as Miss Marple is amusingly self-depracatory in her role, claiming that not everyone who comes into contact with her winds up dead. She'll never be Joan Hickson, but in a film such as this, Lansbury's lighthearted and somewhat campy performance is perfectly pitched.

Tony Curtis and Rock Hudson do passable jobs in their respective roles as Producer and Director, and the supporting cast is nothing more than perfunctory (including a rare nonspeaking cameo from a VERY young Pierce Brosnan), but for all that, they hang together well enough as an ensemble.

The plot and subsequent climax are forgettable, but, as with the rest of the film, come with a gentle likeable atmosphere that saves them from being mundane.

If you can pick it up cheaply, then go for it, it's perfect Sunday afternoon viewing. In total, 'The Mirror Crack'd' is a sweet, campy film that unfortunately stays too close to 'Average' to be a definite recommendation.

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5.0 out of 5 stars good Movie, Oct 30 2003
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This review is from: Mirror Crack'd (Widescreen) (DVD)
this is a good movie and Angela Lansbury makes a wonderful Miss Marple. And Elizabeth Taylor is great as always.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Right on the Mark, May 18 2003
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Shirley Prather (Farmington Hills, Michigan United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mirror Crack'd (Widescreen) (DVD)
The DVD of "The Mirror Crack'd" is the usual Christie as we have all come to expect. It is an entertaining who-done-it taking place in the English countryside; fete and all.

I have seen Angela Lansbury panned as Miss Marple, but I beg to disagree with those reviews. I found Ms. Lansbury a very convincing Marple and I enjoyed her performance very much.

I did, however, find Elizabeth Taylor predictable in her performance as well as Rock Hudson playing her husband.

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