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Dead Man's Folly (film)
Television mystery film
| Dead Man's Folly | |
|---|---|
| Based on | Dead Man's Folly by Agatha Christie |
| Written by | Rod Browning |
| Directed by | Clive Donner |
| Starring | Peter Ustinov Jean Stapleton Constance Cummings Tim Pigott-Smith Jonathan Cecil |
| Music by | John Addison |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom United States |
| Original language | English |
| Producer | Neil Hartley |
| Production locations | Cliveden, Taplow, Berkshire, England Harrods, Brompton Road, Knightsbridge, London, England West Wycombe Park, West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Cinematography | Curtis Clark |
| Editor | Donald R. Rode |
| Running time | 94 minutes |
| Production company | Warner Bros. Television |
| Network | CBS |
| Release | January 8, 1986 (1986-01-08) |
Dead Man's Folly is a 1986 British-American made-for-televisionmystery film featuring Agatha Christie's Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.[1] It is based on Christie's 1956 novel Dead M
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Dead Man's Folly
Directed by:
Clive Donner
Produced by:
Neil Hartley
Photography:
Curtis Clark
Edited by:
Donald R. Rode
Production Company:
Warner Bros
Distributed by:
Warner Bros. Television
Release Date:
January 8, 1986
Country of Origin:
USA (filmed in UK)
The cast included jean Stapleton, Jonathan Cecil, Constance Cummings and Nicollette Sheridan. It was shot largely on location at West Wycombe Park in Buckinghamshire, England.
Synopsis[]
Hercule Poirot and his associate, Captain Hastings, are called in bygd his eccentric mystery author friend, Ariadne Oliver, to a manor house in Devon. Oliver is organizing a "Murder Hunt" game for a local fair to be held at Nass Hous
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Ah, but we have reached very nearly the end of our travelogue through this series, mais ous? With but two episodes to go, and having recently been through a number of episodes that felt quite different than the classic Christie formula, it’s nice to get back to a good old-fashioned “mansion murder” utterly devoid of trains, spies, Shadowy International Cabals(TM) that don’t actually exist, and the like.
The Setup:
During a horrendous storm, Sir George Stubbs (a cracked, gravelly Sean Pertwee) and his rich-by-inheritance-wife Hattie arrive home to Nasse House (here portrayed by none other than Dame Agatha’s actual house, Greenway Estate). An enormous tree is uprooted in the surrounding grounds, and then we cut to…
…one year later, where Stubbs is getting ready to host a garden fete, which near as I can tell are little mini-fairs that the local lords and ladies of the manor used to host on their lawn for the surrounding village