Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
7.2
1989
1 hr 44 min
Crime
, Mystery
, TV Movie
While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British major is actually the work of a murderer planning yet another killing.
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- Cast：
- Joan Hickson , Donald Pleasence , Adrian Lukis , Sophie Ward , T. P. McKenna , Michael Feast , Sheila Ruskin
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Reviews
best movie i've ever seen.
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It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
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The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
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It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
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