All the Wrong Clues (1981)
ジャンル : コメディ
上映時間 : 1時間 39分
演出 : Tsui Hark
脚本 : Raymond Wong, Sze-To Cheuk-Hon
シノプシス
A private investigator and a police inspector team up to pursue a notorious mobster, who is plotting to milk an old millionaire out of his highly-valued stocks and bonds. Along the way, the investigator crosses paths with a femme fatale and silly gangsters.
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.
ロンドン郊外の小さな町で撮影されていた映画『スコットランドの女王メアリー』の歓迎パーティ会場で殺人事件が発生した。推理好きで有名な老婦人ミス・マープルはさっそく独自に調査を開始するのだが……。
Mr. Fortescue, owner of a big company, unexpectedly dies. The autopsy shows that he has been poisoned. Nobody actually loved him, and even his family members had their reasons to kill him. But who really did it? And who is responsable for killing his young servant and his wife within the next couple of days? Of course the only person who can answer this question is Ms. Marple. And of course, the murderer is the person you least expected it to be.
Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort they're staying at is a Bluebeard-type wife murderer. Unfortunately, the Major succumbs to an apparently accidental overdose of alcohol and blood pressure medication before revealing the killer's identity. When it's discovered that the medicine belonged to another guest and the revealing photograph the Major was carrying is missing, Miss Marple realizes that the serial killer has struck again and more murders will follow.
億万長者トウェインから招待状を受け取った5人の探偵は、霧の立ちこめるビクトリア調の豪邸に続々と到着した。しかしホストから“時計の針が真夜中の零時を告げる時、このダイニング・ルームで誰かが殺されるだろう。この殺人事件を解いた者には世界一の名探偵の名誉が与えられる”と告げられるや、邸の出入口と窓には全てロックがされてしまった。一体犯人の目的は……? 豪華キャストで描くミステリー・コメディの快作。
John Cleese is hilarious as the descendant of Sherlock Holmes in this modern detective drama of international power politics and intrigue. Unlike his illustrious grandfather however, he only succeeds in bungling every job he organizes. Also stars Arthur Lowe as the "bionic" grandson of Dr. Watson, Stratford Johns as the Commissioner of Police, and Connie Booth as Mrs. Hudson.
Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns up murdered, a well-placed knife wound at the base of his neck. It will take the precise Poirot to sort out the lies from the alibis - and find the criminal before another victim dies.
Agatha Christie’s agents propose that it’s time for her to publish the manuscript she wrote thirty-five years earlier, a novel in which she finally kills off her most famous creation. And it’s not an entirely sad occasion. “That wretched little man,” she says. “He’s always been so much trouble. How is it Miss Marple has never upset me at all, not ever?” That night, who should appear at her doorstep but the wretched little man himself, Hercule Poirot? The great fictional detective and his creator proceed to play a very Christie-like game of cat and mouse for the manuscript – and for their own lives.
During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.
In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.
The story gets under way at a weekend house party where a scientist is murdered and his secret papers stolen. Putting his "little grey cells" in action, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot methodically pieces together the clues, revealing the culprit to be -- you guessed it -- the Least Likely Suspect.
A classic mystery story based on the famous novel by Agatha Christie.
A biopic of Agatha Christie including her 10 day disappearance.
Steve Russell is a small-town cop. Bored with his bland lifestyle, Russell turns to fraud as a means of shaking things up. Before long, Russell's criminal antics have landed him behind bars, where he encounters the charismatic Phillip Morris. Smitten, Russell devotes his entire life to being with Morris regardless of the consequences.
A domestic house cat named Francis investigates the grisly feline murders taking place in his new neighborhood.
'30年代、禁酒法下のニューヨーク。ダウンタウンの暗黒街では、ファット・サムとダンディ・ダンとの抗争が激化していた。ハンサムなバグジーは、歌手志望の娘ブラウシーと恋におちるが、サムの店のスター歌手タルーラはバグジーに気があるようす。バグジーは抗争に巻き込まれていくが…。
出演者はすべて子供という異色のギャング・ミュージカル。
死んだ富豪の金庫から、少女がマスク姿の大男に切り刻まれて殺害されるシーンを撮影したスナッフフィルムが発見された。確かな腕と評判の私立探偵トム・ウェルズは、富豪の未亡人からの依頼で、そのフィルムの真偽について調査を開始する。アダルトショップで働き、アンダーグラウンドポルノにも詳しいマックス・カリフォルニアの力を借りて、ウェルズはついにフィルムの撮影者を突き止める。そのフィルムが撮影された背景には、意外な真実が隠されていた。
Two out-of-work private detectives disguise themselves as Holmes and Watson to gain attention and end up chasing counterfeiters and stolen stamps.