Sparkling Cyanide

• Director: Robert M. Lewis
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• Genre: Mystery
• Movie Type: Whodunit
• Themes: Amateur Sleuths
• Main Cast: Anthony Andrews
• Release Year: 1983
• Country: US
• Run Time: 100 minutes

Plot

Scriptwriters Robert Malcolm Young, Sue Grafton and Stephen Humphrey transposed the Agatha Christie story Sparkling Cyanide from its veddy British locale to the plush environs of Pasadena for this 1983 TV-movie adaptation. Leading character Anthony Andrews is still a Briton, mingling with the rich and famous. Seeking glamour, Andrews finds only depravity and death as several of the glitterati drop dead due to poisoned champagne. The motives are the oldest and most reliable: avarice and jealousy. Sparkling Cyanide was filmed at the same time as Caribbean Mystery, another Christie adaptation utilizing the same producer, director and scenarists. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Anthony Andrews - Tony Browne; Christine Belford - Rosemary Barton; Pamela Bellwood - Ruth Lessing; Ismael Carlo - Medical Examiner; June Chadwick - Sandra Farraday; Shera Danese - Christine Shannon; Juan Fernandez - Bus Boy; David Huffman - Stephan Farraday; Barrie Ingham - Eric Kidderminster; Nancy Marchand - Lucilla Drake; Deborah Raffin - Iris Murdoch; Eric Sinclair - Charles; Josef Sommer - George Barton; Linda Hoy - Boat Manager; Michael Woods - Victor Drake; Harry Morgan - Captain Kemp

Credit

Robert C. MacKichan - Art Director, Phyllis Huffman - Casting, Thomas S. Dawson - Costume Designer, Robert M. Lewis - Director, David Saxon - Editor, James Di Pasquale - Composer (Music Score), Ted Voigtlander - Cinematographer, Stan Margulies - Producer, Jerry Adams - Set Designer, Sue Grafton - Screenwriter, Robert Young - Screenwriter

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