The Man in the Brown Suit (1989 film)
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| Directed by | Alan Grint |
| Screenplay by | Carla Jean Wagner |
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| Cinematography | Ken Westbury |
| Music by | Arthur B. Rubinstein |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Man in the Brown Suit is a television movie adaptation of an Agatha Christie mystery novel of the same name about an American woman getting involved in a diamond theft in South Africa.[1][2]
Plot
[edit]A tourist visiting Cairo witnesses a murder and after that sees a man in a brown suit fleeing the scene. She boards a ship and assumes that one of her fellow passengers is the criminal and that they also plan to steal a cache of diamonds. However, all of her traveling companies appear to be potential suspects.[3]
Cast
[edit]- Stephanie Zimbalist as Anne Beddingfeld
- Rue McClanahan as Suzy Blair
- Tony Randall as Rev. Edward Chichester
- Edward Woodward as Sir Eustace Pedler
- Ken Howard as Gordon Race
- Nickolas Grace as Guy Underhill
- Simon Dutton as Harry Lucas
- Maria Casal as Anita
- Federicio Luciano as Leo Carton
- Rose McVeigh as Valerie
- Jorge Bosso as the Businessman
- Jose Canalejas as Arab #1
- Robert Case as the Ship's captain
- Tibi Costa as Arab #2
- James Duggan as steward[4]