Singapore Sling: Midnight Orchid (1995)

Directed by

Geoffrey Nottage

Genre

crime, mystery

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A private investigator in Singapore looks into a poisoning at a wedding reception. The case involves a table of guests and twists that are hard to follow.

detectivemysteriousslow-pacedconvolutedunderstateddrysuspensefulbittersweet

What happens

Singapore Sling: Midnight Orchid is a 1995 Australian television film about a private eye in Singapore. It is a followup to Singapore Sling and Singapore Sling: Road to Mandalay. John Waters stars as John Stamford who is investigating the poisoning of a table of guests at a wedding. Also featured are Josephine Byrnes and Anthony Valentine. Doug Anderson's capsual review in the Sydney Morning Herald said "More your bite-sized tele-drama but one with a rather nasty aftertaste". Brian Courtis in the Sunday Age writes "Trying to work out the storylines for any of Paul Barron's Singapore Sling telemovies has been a little like trying to complete a crossword with half the clues missing" The Age's Simon Hughes criticised the characterisations and writes says "the plot (as you may imagine) is incidental. This is wine cooler parading as a cocktail." One more TV movies featuring John Stamford followed, Singapore Sling: Old Flames. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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