Agatha Christie, She Watched Ep33 “The Great Actress Murder Case” (2018)

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about abandoned children, poisonous inhalers, Missing Miss Marple, and wooden-faced police officers. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “The Great Actress Murder Case,” the 2018 Japanese adaptation of “The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side.”

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

2:55 The story itself and a rage for the adopted kids

9:51 And the kids came out reasonably successful

11:42 How Japanese language and culture is expressed

15:19 The Gene Tierney connection

20:30 Another change was to set this up as a police procedural

22:21 About the Lady of Shallott and the title

23:30 A description of the main detective

27:00 Where to find the movie

28:23 Which of the four versions is the best?

32:42 What we’re watching next