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Un experto informático estadounidense se encuentra con una anciana angustiada en un tren y ella le cuenta que un maníaco homicida está acechando su pequeño y tranquilo pueblo.Un experto informático estadounidense se encuentra con una anciana angustiada en un tren y ella le cuenta que un maníaco homicida está acechando su pequeño y tranquilo pueblo.Un experto informático estadounidense se encuentra con una anciana angustiada en un tren y ella le cuenta que un maníaco homicida está acechando su pequeño y tranquilo pueblo.
- Nominado para 1 premio Primetime Emmy
- 1 nominación en total
Olivia de Havilland
- Honoria Waynflete
- (as Olivia De Havilland)
Gordon Lord
- King Edward
- (sin acreditar)
Argumento
¿Sabías que...?
- CuriosidadesThis film was the only film in Bill Bixby's long career that was entirely filmed outside of the United States.
- PifiasAt the beginning of the film, Luke Williams is seen in a compartment of a loco hauled train. The shots of the train on the journey alternate between this train and an Intercity HST125 which always used open carriages which did not have compartments.
- Citas
Bridget Conway: [to Miss Waynflete] O why do you walk through fields in gloves O fat white woman whom nobody loves?
- ConexionesReferences Jim'll Fix It (1975)
Reseña destacada
Agatha Christie's 1939 story has been updated to the Eighties and it's hero/protagonist made an American allowing for the casting of Bill Bixby as Luke Williams, mathematical genius and computer programmer. He takes a fateful ride on a British commuter train and meets up with Helen Hayes who has an important errand to run.
Helen's a talkative old biddy who is worried that there have been a number of strange deaths in her small village recently and she fears that village constable Freddie Jones isn't quite up to a homicide investigation. She's confides in Bixby and then gets run down by a hit and run driver as she leaves the train.
Bixby's mathematical mind can't take in the random probabilities of all this coincidence and it intrigues him. He goes back to Hayes's village and turns detective, annoying village constable Jones, but finding romance with Lesley Anne Down and a host of suspects and a couple more deaths before the mystery is solved.
Among other inhabitants at the village is the local librarian Olivia DeHavilland and Timothy West who owns several newspapers. It's a pity that the story called for Helen Hayes to be killed off immediately so there could be no scenes with DeHavilland and Hayes.
As this story was written in 1939 I suspect that Agatha Christie had Lord Beaverbrook in mind for Timothy West's character. Audiences in 1982, especially American ones couldn't possibly appreciate the satire that Christie was employing with West as the tyrannical ego-maniacal newspaper publisher. Still I suspect citizens of the United Kingdom of the older generations knew quite well who West's character was modeled on.
I don't think the updating especially hurt the story however. The cast does very well by their roles and it's an intriguing film and idea that Helen Hayes voices.
Helen's a talkative old biddy who is worried that there have been a number of strange deaths in her small village recently and she fears that village constable Freddie Jones isn't quite up to a homicide investigation. She's confides in Bixby and then gets run down by a hit and run driver as she leaves the train.
Bixby's mathematical mind can't take in the random probabilities of all this coincidence and it intrigues him. He goes back to Hayes's village and turns detective, annoying village constable Jones, but finding romance with Lesley Anne Down and a host of suspects and a couple more deaths before the mystery is solved.
Among other inhabitants at the village is the local librarian Olivia DeHavilland and Timothy West who owns several newspapers. It's a pity that the story called for Helen Hayes to be killed off immediately so there could be no scenes with DeHavilland and Hayes.
As this story was written in 1939 I suspect that Agatha Christie had Lord Beaverbrook in mind for Timothy West's character. Audiences in 1982, especially American ones couldn't possibly appreciate the satire that Christie was employing with West as the tyrannical ego-maniacal newspaper publisher. Still I suspect citizens of the United Kingdom of the older generations knew quite well who West's character was modeled on.
I don't think the updating especially hurt the story however. The cast does very well by their roles and it's an intriguing film and idea that Helen Hayes voices.
- bkoganbing
- 10 nov 2007
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