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Assassinio per cause naturali

Titolo originale: Murder by Natural Causes
  • Film per la TV
  • 1979
  • 1h 40min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
7,5/10
927
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Assassinio per cause naturali (1979)
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaAllison, 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.

  • Regia
    • Robert Day
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Richard Levinson
    • William Link
  • Star
    • Richard Anderson
    • Katharine Ross
    • Hal Holbrook
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    7,5/10
    927
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Robert Day
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Richard Levinson
      • William Link
    • Star
      • Richard Anderson
      • Katharine Ross
      • Hal Holbrook
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    • 6Recensioni della critica
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    Richard Anderson
    Richard Anderson
    • George Brubaker
    Katharine Ross
    Katharine Ross
    • Allison Sinclair
    Hal Holbrook
    Hal Holbrook
    • Arthur Sinclair
    Barry Bostwick
    Barry Bostwick
    • Gil Weston
    Jeff Donnell
    Jeff Donnell
    • Mrs. Mathews
    Bill Fiore
    • Marty Chambers
    Victoria Carroll
    Victoria Carroll
    • Television Actress
    Phil Leeds
    Phil Leeds
    • Eddie - Private Detective
    Judith-Marie Bergan
    Judith-Marie Bergan
    • Production Assistant
    • (as Judith Marie Bergan)
    Vivian Brown
    • Maid
    Rosanna Huffman
    • Woman in Play
    Dany Marrou
    • Marta
    Lloyd McLinn
    • Director
    Eve McVeagh
    Eve McVeagh
    • Helen Carrington
    Margery Nelson
    • Party Guest
    Jessica Rains
    • Technician
    Maida Severn
    Maida Severn
    • Hostess
    Ethelreda Leopold
    Ethelreda Leopold
    • Reading Guest
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      • Robert Day
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Richard Levinson
      • William Link
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    9AlsExGal

    Ah, the cynical 70s

    This film just tears all of your preconceived notions about all that is sacred into tiny confetti. Hal Holbrook is a mentalist with a bad heart who is rolling in dough currently. He admits - privately - that he doesn't truly read minds and that it is all a clever trick, but he says the people have a void where religion once was and his act helps fill that void, thus his recent success. He works with "tells" he sees in the subject's behavior or conversation along with information he gleans from investigators so that he appears to be psychic. Katherine Ross is the unfaithful wife of the mentalist who would like to be rid of him but keep all of the money. She is very greedy so divorce is out of the question. And greed often makes people stupid.

    And so this is the background of the film in which Ross' character plans to murder her mentalist husband in such a way that she avoids all suspicion and thus jail. And from there the twists and turns never stop up to the questionable ending. To tell more would be to tell too much. I'll just say it is fantastic acting by a fabulous cast working with a terrific script in which no piece of dialogue should be ignored by the viewer. With an almost unrecognizable Barry Bostwick who seems to be going through a Loggins and Messina period lookswise as an underemployed actor. Highly recommended.

    And for those who might not believe that a 1979 film could possibly be relevant today, I give you the opening scene where Holbrook's character is attaching himself to some computational apparatus and calls a number where a computer operator checks the status of his pacemaker. Immediately after she reassures the caller that the pacemaker is operational she asks for a charge number. American medicine is all about the bucks, then and now.
    10eric-386

    Best TV Movie ever!

    Here it is, 24 years later and I still remember it from only one viewing. It had the most amazing storyline and writing with some pretty impressive twists and turns in the last half hour. I would LOVE to see it again. Hal Holbrook is truly one of the amazing and underappreciated actors of our time.
    10secragt

    The Best Final Act In TV Movie History. Don't Miss It!!

    Just reinforcing what everyone who has seen this will tell you: out and out brilliant from start to finish. Katherine Ross, Hal Holbrook, Barry Bostwick and Richard Anderson are all in top form but the fiendishly twist-laden Levinson / Link script is the real star. This is the duo's very best effort, topping even their finest COLUMBO offerings.

    Besides a time capsule dollop of 1970s talk show topicality, I cannot imagine ANY fan of crime drama or whodunits being anything but thrilled with this continuously clever and original story. Probably among the very best TV mystery movies of its kind you'll ever see and smarter than 99% of features. Must see!
    10Lechuguilla

    Perhaps The Best TV Movie Ever Made

    Writers Richard Levinson and William Link wrote some great scripts in the sixties and seventies, including some for Hitchcock. A psychological thriller that first aired in 1979, "Murder By Natural Causes", is arguably Levinson and Link's best work. With twist upon twist upon twist, and subtle dialogue clues scattered throughout the plot, it's a film that fans of suspense thrillers need to see, as an example of superior script writing.

    Forty-something and wealthy entertainer Arthur Sinclair (Hal Holbrook) wows audiences with his mental telepathy skills as he seemingly reads peoples minds. Allison (Katharine Ross) is his attractive thirty-something wife, a person with a roving eye and a desire for riches. What kind of story do you think this setup suggests? Can you guess how the film ends? Don't bet on it.

    The film could easily be transformed into a stage play since most scenes take place indoors on sets. Production design is adequate. Intermittent background music is at times spooky, and there are a couple of scenes wherein the music is reminiscent of the shower scene in Hitchcock's "Psycho", shrieking and shrill. Good editing keeps the plot flowing nicely for the most part, though the middle Act trends a bit talky in a couple of scenes. Color cinematography is adequate. Casting and acting cannot be improved upon.

    All film elements come together perfectly in that final sequence when a character walks in the front door of Aruthur's big house. The dialogue here is entrancing. Camera movement is faultless. And that final scene where the camera moves in close to a character's eyes is breathtakingly dramatic. It's one of the great final sequences in film history.

    It's too bad this film never received a theatrical release. It is far better and more entertaining than most major Hollywood thrillers of the last fifty years that I have seen. The film won an Edgar Allan Poe Award for best television film of 1980. One might even assert that "Murder By Natural Causes" is the best TV movie ever made. I probably would not argue with that assessment.
    8Coventry

    The Unusual Suspects... Great TV-thriller.

    It happens occasionally that I stumble upon the IMDb pages of made-for-television movies, usually from the 1970s, with incredibly high ratings and almost exclusively praising user-comments. I'm intrigued by those titles and promptly seek them out to watch next. Not necessarily because I'm convinced they truly will be great, but to try and capture the experience & emotions of all my fellow reviewers. For you see, most of the hyper-positive ratings and reviews are based on fond memories. Fans who watched the films on television, often just once and at a very young age. The films haven't been shown anywhere since and never got released on DVD, but they made an everlasting impression.

    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.

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      The 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.
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      [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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      • 17 febbraio 1979 (Stati Uniti)
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    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Hollywood, California, Stati Uniti
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      • Richard Levinson / William Link Productions
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