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by Jennifer Garlen
While it’s not actually a film from the Golden Age of Hollywood, the 1980 Miss Marple whodunnit, The Mirror Crack’d, is set in 1953 and boasts a cast of powerhouse classic stars from that era, including Angela Lansbury as Agatha Christie’s iconic detective. It belongs to the vogue for lavish, star-studded Christie adaptations that produced Murder on the Orient Express (1974) and Death on the Nile (1978) and preceded Kenneth Branagh’s revival of those Hercule Poirot adventures starting in 2017. Of course, we can trace the roots of Rian Johnson’s tremendously successful Benoit Blanc movies to these pictures, too, so it’s well worth the effort to revisit the earlier Christie adaptations in order to better appreciate the evolution and enduring appeal of this particular subgenre of murder mystery…
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