Ordeal by Innocence (Amazon.com Exclusive)

Ordeal by Innocence (Amazon.com Exclusive)
by Desmond Davis

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Actor: Christopher Plummer, Donald Sutherland, Faye Dunaway, Ian McShane, Sarah Miles
Director: Desmond Davis
Cinematographer: Billy Williams
Producer: Jenny Craven
Producer: Menahem Golan
Producer: Michael J. Kagan
Producer: Yoram Globus
Writer: Agatha Christie
Writer: Alexander Stuart
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: NTSC
Running Time: 90 minutes
Release Date: 2001-02-20
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: MGM/UA Video
Studio: MGM/UA Video

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Movie Review: ANOTHER CANNON GROUP FLOP
Summary: 2 Stars

Ok. I admit that Dave Brubeck's music is a little bewildering in a movie based on a crime novel. It's a bad choice but it could please some viewers. The main problem of the film is however that, instead of masking the lack of depth of the characters, which is unfortunately Agatha Christie's trademark, the film shows only a succession of uninteresting dialogs and flashbacks.

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Agatha Christie mysteries, like stories about Sherlock Holmes, form their own little universe--and therein lies their appeal. Agatha Christie's Ordeal by Innocence features Donald Sutherland (the great star of MASH and Klute) as Arthur Calgary, a paleontologist who's just come back after two years in the Antarctic to return a man's address book, only to discover that the man was hanged for murder--and that he was this man's only alibi. Disturbed, Calgary starts to investigate, and discovers that no one much cares if the dead man was innocent or not, and that most everyone in his family might well have wanted to kill both him and his victim (his own mother, played in flashbacks by Faye Dunaway). The plot unfolds skillfully, with all the precision of a Swiss clock; the actors (including Christopher Plummer of The Sound of Music and Sarah Miles of Blow-Up) are all excellent; and the movie gives the mystery an added bite by suggesting that the investigation does more harm than the original crime. A particularly well-done Christie adaptation, featuring a jaunty score by jazz great Dave Brubeck, which lends an unusual flavor to the proceedings. --Bret Fetzer

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