Wealthy Margo Wendice's husband (Laurence Harvey) plots her murder to inherit her fortune after discovering her affair, leading to a tense, failed, and improvised criminal scheme. A made-for-television remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film.
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Diane Cilento
Margo Wendice
Laurence Harvey
Tony Wendice
Hugh O'Brian
Mark Halliday
Cyril Cusack
Chief Insp. Hubbard
Nigel Davenport
Lesgate
Glynn Edwards
Sgt. Edwards
Garry Marsh
Lionel
Joanne Dainton
Barmaid
Arthur Hewlett
Hotel Clerk
Carole Ann Ford
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Remake of the 1987 film that put three bachelors in charge of a baby left by the girlfriend of one of them.
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At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something wrong, Miss Marple agrees to visit 'Stonygates', the country house of Ruth's sister.
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Jenn buys an old reel-to-reel recorder at a garage sale only to find that it includes the sound of a man pleading for his life. When the former owner of the recorder, a retired therapist, is found murdered in a patient’s apartment, Jenn’s investigation leads to other patients whose love lives are more entangled than she was first led to believe.
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