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      Murder Is Easy

      TV-PG 1981 1h 40m Crime Drama Mystery & Thriller List
      Reviews 55% 100+ Ratings Audience Score An American tourist (Bill Bixby) snoops around an English village that has a high number of accidental deaths. Read More Read Less

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      martin a An enjoyable murder mystery, as bodies pile up who will the killer be? Great cast, and lovely locations Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member A quaint movie based on an Agatha Christie Novel featuring the late Bill Bixby, the late Helen Hayes, the great Olivia D'Haviland & the beautiful Leslie-Anne Downes & taking place in a picturesqe English village, Wytchwood-on-Ashe. A nice, "feel good" movie & part of a series of re-worked Agatha Christie novels into movies produced by Stan Margulies, featuring lovely locales and famous actors and actresses. This is among my most favorite as the English country-side and small town portrayed are just exquisite. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member A good murder mystery from Agatha Christie, it has a good cast, and I really liked it. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member This TV movie could have been in theatres, I don't know why it wasn't. Bixby is cute as the American who just has to figure out who the killer is because it defies his theory of probability and chance or whatever. The movie is exciting, it's got action, and trying to figure out the mystery is part of the fun. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Murder is Easy is reset into then-contemporary times while maintaining the basic premise and plot of the story. Some names have also been changed, Miss Pinkerton becomes Miss Fullerton, and Luke Fitzwilliams, a retired police officer, becomes Luke Williams, a mathematician and author. While Freddy Jones is good in his role as the constable, Bill Bixby is miscast as the hero of the story. And Lesley-Anne Down, lovely as she is, has played the spoiled aristocrat way too often. One might Bixby to tell her, "Don't make me angry, you don't want to see me angry," but that's a different program altogether. This is a TV movie, so some expected cheesy music and scenes are present, cheapening one of Agatha Christie's best Poirot and Marple-less novels. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member Lesley-Anne Down is so lovely mmm Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis An American tourist (Bill Bixby) snoops around an English village that has a high number of accidental deaths.
      Director
      Claude Whatham
      Screenwriter
      Carmen Culver
      Rating
      TV-PG
      Genre
      Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (DVD)
      Sep 12, 2006
      Runtime
      1h 40m