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Agatha Christie is generally considered the Queen of Crime Fiction. Her novels, stories and plays bamboozle legions of murder aficionados with complex plotting and dazzling denouements. But no mystery she ever wrote surpassed the one she lived.
This tantalizing tale posits what may have happened to the famed writer during her real-life 11-day disappearance in 1926.
Dustin Hoffman plays a brash American journalist who tries his own hand at sleuthing when he sets out the find the missing novelist (Vanessa Redgrave), a shy, introspective woman whose marriage to a war hero (Timothy Dalton) has foundered. What really happened? The world doesn’t know and Dame Agatha never told. But as suspensefully directed by Michael Apted (Coal Miner’s Daughter, Gorky Park), Agatha offers a spellbinding solution.
Original Release
02/09/1979
US Release
02/09/1979
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Vanessa Redgrave | Agatha Christie |
Timothy Dalton | Archie Christie |
Helen Morse | Evelyn |
Celia Gregory | Nancy Neele |
Paul Brooke | John Foster |
Carolyn Pickles | Charlotte Fisher |
Timothy West | Kenward |
Tony Britton | William Collins |
Alan Badel | Lord Brackenbury |
Robert Longden | Pettelson |
Directors
Writers
Kathleen Tynan, Arthur Hopcraft
Cast
Name | Character |
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Vanessa Redgrave | Agatha Christie |
Timothy Dalton | Archie Christie |
Helen Morse | Evelyn |
Celia Gregory | Nancy Neele |
Paul Brooke | John Foster |
Carolyn Pickles | Charlotte Fisher |
Timothy West | Kenward |
Tony Britton | William Collins |
Alan Badel | Lord Brackenbury |
Robert Longden | Pettelson |
Donald Nithsdale | Uncle Jones |
Yvonne Gilan | Mrs. Braithwaite |
Sandra Voe | Therapist |
Barry Hart | Supt. MacDonald |
David Hargreaves | Sgt. Jarvis |
Tim Seely | Capt. Rankin |
Jill Summers | Nancy's Aunt |
Christopher Fairbank | Luland |
Liz Smith | Flora |
Peter Arne | Hotel Manager |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Dustin Hoffman | Producer |
Jarvis Astaire | Producer |
Gavrik Losey | Producer |
Editors
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1980 | Oscar | Best Costume Design | Nominated |