अपनी भाषा में प्लॉट जोड़ेंAllison, the unfaithful wife of a famous mentalist with a heart problem, wants her lover to try to kill her husband by scaring him to death, but the whole thing goes downhill.Allison, the unfaithful wife of a famous mentalist with a heart problem, wants her lover to try to kill her husband by scaring him to death, but the whole thing goes downhill.Allison, the unfaithful wife of a famous mentalist with a heart problem, wants her lover to try to kill her husband by scaring him to death, but the whole thing goes downhill.
- पुरस्कार
- कुल 1 जीत
- Production Assistant
- (as Judith Marie Bergan)
- Reading Guest
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
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This man is worth Millions. His dutiful wife would love to divorce him for her boyfriend. But she had signed a pesky pre-nuptual agreement, only giving her a portion of his Millions. Unfortunately, for him, she wants it ALL.
With the scene set, she devises a plot so that her young actor boyfriend can use his acting skills to ramp-up the stress on hubby, so he has another heart attack, this time not bothering to call for medical help (just the coroner, later).
As others have made perfectly clear this movie ends in a torrent of plot twists. This can (and will) cause you dizziness.
A lot of the movie shows (quite interestingly), the behind-the-scenes life of a mentalist, preparing for each performance. Then it shows his performances (seamlessly incorporating his prep work).
I have looked for this movie to re-run for about 20 years (so far). I cannot believe that this hasn't been released onto video. It is a killer.
Please, do believe me when I state that I DO NOT consider those ratings and reviews invaluable or overly subjective. Quite the contrary, I'm often jealous that I was born in the wrong decade and truly wish to have been able to experience the glorious era of genuinely intelligent and qualitative movies for free on cable television! And - just to be clear - many of these TV-movies are REALLY good, like my most recent discoveries "One of my Wives is Missing" and this "Murder by Natural Causes".
The sadly forgotten gem "Murder by Natural Causes" is a tour-de-force collaboration of excellent writing (courtesy of the team behind "Columbo") and even better acting. What starts as a simple story about adultery and a banal conspiracy to murder an unsuspecting husband unfolds into a convoluted thriller with surprising twists and sardonic characters. Revealing anything about the plot would be a shame, but I guarantee you'll be glued to the screen and guessing. The unearthly beautiful Katharine Ross plays a role that is quite out of her comfort zone, but I've never seen her so sexy. Hal Holbrook, who's always been underrated in my opinion, is fantastic as the charismatic showman with a niftily constructed mind-reading act.
It is no surprise, of course, that the same team that created Columbo is responsible for this movie.
Practically unknown, it will probably never be issued on a DVD. What a pity - a textbook script that nobody will remember only because people prefer to watch Dumb and Dumber instead.
Hal Holbrook was the real star of the show (and such an underrated actor), but are also awesome performances by both Katharine Ross and Barry Bostwick. The three of them took center stage for a while but Richard Anderson showed up to give another super performance. Everyone in this film is very convincing.
If you are married to a mentalist who has a good detective on his side then I don't recommend cheating on them, you might be left with three alternatives.
8/10
क्या आपको पता है
- ट्रिवियाThe play that "Gil Weston" is appearing in is "Prescription: Murder." It shares the title of an actual play from 1962 written by William Levinson and Richard Link, notable for introducing their most famous creation, Lieutenant Columbo. However, the scene from the Gil Weston play shown in the film bears no similarity to anything in the original; nor are the reviews Weston reads similar. In the original play, Lt. Columbo was portrayed by the famous character actor Thomas Mitchell in what would be his last acting role.
- भाव
[last lines]
Allison Sinclair: What are you going to do?
[Arthur, pointing a gun at her, smiles and says nothing]
Allison Sinclair: Tell me, Arthur!
Arthur Sinclair: [pause, then] I have a suggestion for you, darling... why don't you read my mind?
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