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The film starring Angela Lansbury, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson is directed by Guy Hamilton. It is about Elizabeth Taylor plays an unsuccessful actress wants to come back but she gets problems by dint of the mysterious incident in the past. Unfortunately, there are many murders happening in the village where filming, which makes her stress.
For all her prolificacy, Agatha Christie relied too often on one particular plot twist, and as soon as you recognize her old favorite here, the film loses all interest.
The big-name cast is a great, nostalgic throwback to the 1950s, when its players' names -- Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Kim Novak, Tony Curtis -- graced giant theater marquees.
Watching Novak and Taylor lay into each other verbally is a treat. Whether that should be what you come away with from a Miss Marple movie is another consideration.
Both Miss Taylor and Miss Novak, as larger-than-life silver-screen rivals of a certain age, get all wound up for some fancy, high-toned tongue-lashings, but the material isn't up to their power.
August 30, 2004
Spirituality and Practice
The Mirror Crack'd is a thoroughly enjoyable Agatha Christie mystery.
The Christie plot ends up so drastically foreshortened that you'd swear a reel must have been misplaced, although the sluggish direction of Guy Hamilton doesn't make one anxious to see it restored.