Night Watch (1973)

Like the best parlour-game play-adapted mysteries of the 70s and 80s, like Ira Levin's Deathtrap or Simon's Murder By Death,, this atmospheric mystery-thriller features a jangly 70s organ that accompanies the shadowy thrills and lightning-flash-reveals of its creepy old-house murder mystery, with its cast of five players, including Elizabeth Taylor's lead, a hysterical witness to murder, running around in a thriller that reworks and melds together plot elements of other classic thrillers, like Suspicion, Rear Window, Deathtrap, Sleuth, Murder By Death, Shock - like these classics, this is a well-acted, effectively staged jangly good murder mystery time.

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★★★★☆

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The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

A Hollywood production sweeps into St Mary Mead and brings with it highly-strung celebrity A-lister Marina Gregg (Elizabeth Taylor), her arm-candy husband (Rock Hudson), their entourage of secretaries and house people and production staff and, among them, a murderer, and it is up to Angela Lansbury's terrible Miss Marple, an American-accented beanpole covered in cobwebs, to solve the poisoning cases central to Agatha Christie's classic mystery.

★★★☆☆

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