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Friday, 2 June 2017

Endless Night (1972)


I can think of three other Agatha Christie books that use the same major plot device but this film version of Endless Night, about a chauffeur whose dreams of owning a house at Gypsy's Acre come true when he marries well, is played as a thriller, not a murder mystery - the body count is still zero at the 75 minute mark - and there is a touch of the paranormal with one elderly gypsy character drifting around spouting macabre stuff about a curse, making it a more interesting film version than many adaptations of the Queen of Crime's books.

★☆

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Tuesday, 10 September 2013

Sleuth (1972)


Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier star in this film adaptation of Anthony Shaffer's delightfully sinister mystery stage play set in a remote Wiltshire mansion, about two men - a famous mystery writer and a hairdresser - facing off in a battle of wits that grows ever more deadly.

★★★★★

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