The Mirror Crack'd

(1980)

105 minutes
 
Crime / Mystery / Thriller

Directed by Guy Hamilton

Cast:

Angela Lansbury as Miss Jane Marple 
Wendy Morgan as Cherry 
Margaret Courtenay as Mrs. Bantry 
Charles Gray as Bates, the Butler 
Maureen Bennett as Heather Babcock 
Carolyn Pickles as Miss Giles 
Eric Dodson as The Major 
Charles Lloyd Pack as Vicar 
Richard Pearson as Doctor Haydock 
Thick Wilson as The Mayor 
Pat Nye as Mayoress 
Peter Woodthorpe as Scout Master 
Geraldine Chaplin as Ella Zielinsky 
Tony Curtis as Martin N. Fenn 
Edward Fox as Inspector Craddock 
Elizabeth Taylor
Kim Novak
Rock Hudson

An Agatha Christie Mystery, This film is set in the year of 1953 in a small village named St. Mary Mead in England. Miss Jane Marple is ecstatic when a huge American movie is going to be made surrounding the relationship between Jane Grey and Elisabeth I.  The famous actresses Marina Rudd and Lola Brewster are going to be playing these women in the film. Marina is not happy when she realizes Lola is going to be starring in the film as well, for they despise each other. To make matters worse, Marina has been receiving death letters. During a party, Heather Babcock has a drink intended for Marina and dies from the poison. Inspector Craddock requests the help of his aunt, Miss Marple to investigate more on the case. 

The title is portion of a line from The Lady of Shalott by the English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson:

Out flew the web and floated wide--
The mirror crack'd from side to side;
"The curse is come upon me", cried
The Lady of Shalott.