An American computer expert meets a distraught old lady on a train and she tells him that a homicidal maniac is stalking her quiet little village.An American computer expert meets a distraught old lady on a train and she tells him that a homicidal maniac is stalking her quiet little village.An American computer expert meets a distraught old lady on a train and she tells him that a homicidal maniac is stalking her quiet little village.
- Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 1 nomination total
Olivia de Havilland
- Honoria Waynflete
- (as Olivia De Havilland)
Gordon Lord
- King Edward
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThis film was the only film in Bill Bixby's long career that was entirely filmed outside of the United States.
- GoofsAt the beginning of the film Luke Williams is seen aboard a loco hauled train. The shots of the train on the journey alternate between this train and an Inter City 125.
- Quotes
Bridget Conway: [to Miss Waynflete] O why do you walk through fields in gloves O fat white woman whom nobody loves?
- ConnectionsReferences For Your Eyes Only (1981)
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Malick's Evil Ghost
My heavens.
One thing I like, absolutely find hypnotizing, is how the classic detective stories get munged around. Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie are the ones that I want to follow. Now that there is new twist — probably a whole rope walk — on Sherlock coming, I wanted to check this out.
It had a comparatively big budget, and some named actors, but not in their finer phases. It is roughly based on Christie in terms of the setup and mystery. But there is no real mystery. How it messes up in this department is uninteresting.
But it has a detective that is roughly placed between Poirot and Marple. This is the truly bizarre part. This detective is an MIT professor, presumably a genius, right? He follows the TeeVee version of mathematical logic, which is based on a simple notion of "calculating the probabilities." Its a bit of a hoot, because it takes the detecting, the narrative richness of projecting in the future, into other folks' minds, into a mechanical exercise.
It is precisely the opposite of what advanced mathematical logic is all about. In fact, I've been thinking about Terrence Malick recently. I encountered him as an MIT professor, wondering about what the relationship of future is to past. It is, in a way an extension of the concerns of a detective. It has nothing to do with probability, instead about understanding causality instead of measurement.
It means that for me this is a particularly disturbing version of the genre, a genre that has a particularly intelligent origin. I feel like I'm in bigfoot territory.
Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.
One thing I like, absolutely find hypnotizing, is how the classic detective stories get munged around. Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie are the ones that I want to follow. Now that there is new twist — probably a whole rope walk — on Sherlock coming, I wanted to check this out.
It had a comparatively big budget, and some named actors, but not in their finer phases. It is roughly based on Christie in terms of the setup and mystery. But there is no real mystery. How it messes up in this department is uninteresting.
But it has a detective that is roughly placed between Poirot and Marple. This is the truly bizarre part. This detective is an MIT professor, presumably a genius, right? He follows the TeeVee version of mathematical logic, which is based on a simple notion of "calculating the probabilities." Its a bit of a hoot, because it takes the detecting, the narrative richness of projecting in the future, into other folks' minds, into a mechanical exercise.
It is precisely the opposite of what advanced mathematical logic is all about. In fact, I've been thinking about Terrence Malick recently. I encountered him as an MIT professor, wondering about what the relationship of future is to past. It is, in a way an extension of the concerns of a detective. It has nothing to do with probability, instead about understanding causality instead of measurement.
It means that for me this is a particularly disturbing version of the genre, a genre that has a particularly intelligent origin. I feel like I'm in bigfoot territory.
Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.
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- Aug 30, 2009
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