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Director
  
Dick Lowry

First episode date
  
February 20, 1985

Country
  
United KingdomUnited States

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IMDb

Genre
  
Crime, Mystery

Duration
  

Language
  
English

Murder with Mirrors movie poster

Release date
  
February 20, 1985 (1985-02-20)

Based on
  
They Do It with Mirrors novel by Agatha Christie

Writer
  
Agatha Christie (novel), George Eckstein (teleplay)

Nominations
  
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score)

Cast
  
Helen Hayes
(Miss Jane Marple),
Bette Davis
(Carrie Louise Serrocold),
John Mills
(Lewis Serrocold),
Leo McKern
(Insp. Curry),
Liane Langland
(Gina Markham),
Dorothy Tutin
(Mildred Strete)

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Murder with Mirrors is a 1985 British-American made-for-television mystery film starring Helen Hayes in her final appearance as Miss Marple and, as well, her final film role. It also stars Bette Davis, John Mills, Leo McKern, Dorothy Tutin and Tim Roth.

Contents

Murder with Mirrors is based on Agatha Christie's novel They Do It with Mirrors (1952), using the novel's American title. The novel has since been dramatized twice more on two separate Miss Marple television series: first with Joan Hickson on Miss Marple (1991) and then with Julia McKenzie on Agatha Christie's Marple (2010). Both of these used the novel's original title.

Synopsis

Miss Marple (Helen Hayes) is reunited with her old American friend Carrie Louise Serrocold (Bette Davis) from their days touring Italy as young ladies. Christian Gulbranson, Miss Marple's lawyer, persuades her to visit the estate of his step-mother, Carrie Louise. Carrie Louise's devoted husband Lewis has turned the manor house Stonygates into a halfway house for young criminals. He confides to Miss Marple that he suspects that someone is slowly poisoning Carrie Louise with arsenic. But then Christian Gulbranson is found murdered. A murderer is at large in a house full of suspects.

Cast

  • Helen Hayes as Miss Jane Marple
  • Bette Davis as Carrie Louise Serrocold
  • John Mills as Lewis Serrocold
  • Leo McKern as Inspector Curry
  • Liane Langland as Gina Markham
  • John Laughlin as Wally Markham
  • Dorothy Tutin as Mildred Strete
  • Anton Rodgers as Dr. Max Hargrove
  • Frances de la Tour as Miss Bellaver
  • John Woodvine as Christian Gulbranson
  • James Coombes as Steven Restarick
  • Tim Roth as Edgar Lawson

    • Production

    Murder with Mirrors was filmed entirely on location in England. Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire featured as Stonygates. Several locations in London can be seen, like Carlton House Terrace, Trafalgar Square and Westminster Bridge. Turville, Seer Green and Skirmett, all in Buckinghamshire have also been used for the film.

    References

    Murder with Mirrors Wikipedia
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    Murder with Mirrors IMDb Murder with Mirrors themoviedb.org