A Very English Murder 1974
A classic detective story based on one of the best-loved Golden Age crime writers, Cyril Hare, novel "An English Murder" originally published in 1951. The setting of An English Murder seems, at first, to be a very conventional one. A group of family and friends come together for Christmas at a country house, Warbeck Hall. The house is owned by Lord Warbeck, a dying and impoverished peer who wants to be among loved ones for what he thinks will be his last Christmas. The holiday decorations are up and snow is falling fast outside. The guests range from the Lord's difficult son to a visiting Czech historian. There is, of course, a faithful butler and his ambitious daughter. But when the murders begin, there is nothing at all conventional about them - or the manner of their detection...
- Released: 1974-12-14
- Runtime: 165 minutes
- Genre: Mystery, TV Movie
- Stars: Boris Ivanov, Aleksey Batalov, Georgi Taratorkin, Irina Muravyova, Ivan Pereverzev
- Director: Samson Samsonov, Edgar Smirnov, Cyril Hare, Yevgeni Guslinskiy, Eduard Artemyev
- Source: Layarstar
