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Original title: Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest

TV Movie
1997
1h 40m

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Jessica Fletcher (Dame Angela Lansbury) is attacked on a train when she investigates the case of a missing passenger.Jessica Fletcher (Dame Angela Lansbury) is attacked on a train when she investigates the case of a missing passenger.Jessica Fletcher (Dame Angela Lansbury) is attacked on a train when she investigates the case of a missing passenger.

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7.2/10

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Awards
- 3 nominations total

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Story about secret codes and NAS

This story full of suspense. It starts off with a man being murdered and a woman walking her dog sees the murderer. The woman tell the police she is afraid because the killer knows what she looks like.

JB Fletcher goes on a train a makes friends with a Mrs Taylor not knowing the lady is the witness to the murder who later disappears.

There are men that get on board and they all look suspicious. You start to think maybe they will kill Mrs Taylor.

The story is about secret codes for Satellites that are worth a lot of money. They are being sought by a number of people some working for the government and some from other countries. The man that was killed was meeting a reporter because the codes where in error and the higher ups would not listen to him to correct the problem so he was going to give the reporter the story.

It kind of reminds me of what happened recently with the NSA. The NSA was spying on people and countries and Snowden not like what the NSA was doing so he started to reveal internal things that happened to news reporters.

The story has a lot of suspense and action that takes place on the train. It has lots of persons of interest. Good to watch.

ctyankee1
Oct 7, 2013
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Trivia
The dusty bus stop town location was Piru, California, adjacent to Fillmore. The Piru town's short Main Street commercial buildings were completely vacant, boarded up, and unoccupied. Art Director Mary Dodson created all of the shops, selecting a market, a Southwest Indian tourist shop, a barber shop, gas station, with necessary window and sign decoration. Mary and the decorator made the town come to life for the filming sequence. Several other exterior buildings and sidewalk locations were utilized filling out the filming schedule's use of the town site.

Goofs
When the train journey is interrupted by someone pulling the emergency brake because they claim someone fell from the train, they get out and search the area immediately around the train. In reality, at an average speed of 50mph, as later stated, it would take the train a mile or more to stop after the emergency brake was pulled, plus the distance from the time someone saw someone "fall" and the time it took to locate and pull the emergency brake. They would've needed to be searching at least a mile behind where the train stopped.