A Talent for Murder (1984)

Directed by

Alvin Rakoff

Genre

comedy drama

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 20m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A crime writer hosts a weekend party at her country mansion. An unexpected guest stirs up old secrets and a possible murder plot.

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What happens

A Talent for Murder is a 1983 British television film directed by Alvin Rakoff, starring Angela Lansbury, Laurence Olivier and Hildegard Neil; the 1981, Edgar Award winning Broadway play of the same name, written by Jerome Chodorov and Norman Panama, starred Jean-Pierre Aumont and Claudette Colbert. The film was produced by the BBC and originally aired on BBC Two in December 1983 in the UK, and on Showtime in January 1984 in the US. Set in a New York country mansion but shot in Britain, Lansbury's performance as a crime writer anticipated her long-running role in the CBS show Murder, She Wrote. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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