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The Mirror Crack'd is a 1980 British mystery film directed by Guy Hamilton from a screenplay by Jonathan Hales and Barry Sandler, based on Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1962). It stars Angela Lansbury, Geraldine Chaplin, Tony Curtis, Edward Fox, Rock Hudson, Kim Novak, and Elizabeth Taylor.
Francis Iles (Anthony Berkeley Cox) was somewhat muted in his praise in his review in The Guardian of 7 December 1962 when he said, "she has of course thought up one more brilliant little peg on which to hang her plot, but the chief interest to me of The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side was the shrewd exposition of what makes a female film star tick the way she does tick.
Rhoda Lewis is village shopkeeper and postmistress Mrs Brogan in "A Pocketful of Rye", "4.50 from Paddington" and "The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side". Miss Marple's nephew Raymond West appears in "Sleeping Murder" (played by David McAlister) and in "A Caribbean Mystery" and "The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side" (played by Trevor Bowen).
The Mirror Crack'd: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side: Miss Marple: 1982: Evil Under the Sun: Evil Under the Sun: Hercule Poirot: 1983: Secret of the Blackbirds (Russian: Тайна "Чёрных дроздов") The novel A Pocket Full of Rye: Names changed: Soviet Union: 1984: Ordeal by Innocence: Ordeal by Innocence: Arthur Calgary: 1987
In 1980, Novak played fictional actress Lola Brewster in the British mystery-thriller The Mirror Crack'd, based on the story by Agatha Christie. She co-starred alongside Angela Lansbury, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson, and Elizabeth Taylor. She enjoyed making the film and got along with her co-stars and the film was moderately successful.
A Pocket Full of Rye (1985) Series 2 The Murder at the Vicarage (1986) – BAFTA nomination; Sleeping Murder (1987) At Bertram's Hotel (1987) Nemesis (1987) – BAFTA nomination; Stand-alone feature length episodes 4.50 from Paddington (1987) A Caribbean Mystery (1989) They Do It With Mirrors (1991) The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1992)
A Pocket Full of Rye is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 9 November 1953, [1] and in the US by Dodd, Mead & Co. the following year. [2] [3] The UK edition retailed at ten shillings and sixpence (10/6) [1] and the US edition at $2.75. [3] The book features her detective ...
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side keeps closely to the original story. A Caribbean Mystery keeps closely to the original story, apart from the inclusion of real-life novelist Ian Fleming and ornithologist James Bond. Greenshaw's Folly combines the short story with elements from The Thumb Mark of St. Peter. The story is embellished, but keeps ...