Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort they're staying at is a Bluebeard-type wife murderer. Unfortunately, the Major succumbs to an apparently accidental overdose of alcohol and blood pressure medication before revealing the killer's identity. When it's discovered that the medicine belonged to another guest and the revealing photograph the Major was carrying is missing, Miss Marple realizes that the serial killer has struck again and more murders will follow.
Eric Braeden stars as Dr. Charles Forbin, who has created a supercomputer named Colossus, built solely for the purpose of controlling the nuclear defenses of the Western alliance. It isn't too long after, however, that the Russians announce that they too have built a similar computer for those same purposes on their side--Guardian. And when the two machines begin sharing information at a speed nobody can believe, an attempt is made to disable them.
This unfortunately just raises the machines' ire and in retaliation, they launch their weapons at each other's home nations. The result is a chilling scenario that is potentially becoming all too real these days.
COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT was not a big hit at the box office for various reasons. One is that its cast wasn't exactly well known. Another reason is that its ending isn't exactly a happy one. Still a third reason is that Universal had trouble trying to promote it in the wake of the huge success of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. The latter reason is obvious: Colossus and Guardian, like HAL in the Kubrick movie, become central characters here. The difference here is that while HAL malfunctions due to a programming conflict, Colossus and Guardian remain all too stable, convinced beyond a doubt that they know how to protect Mankind better than Man himself. As the computers point out: "One inevitable rule is that Mankind is his own worst enemy."
Joseph Sargent's direction is efficient, and the special effects work of Albert Whitlock still manages to work despite its obvious age. An overlooked gem in the sci-fi genre, this should be given a revival.
Marple is asked by her lawyer, Christian Gilbranson, to visit his step-mother, Carrie Louise Serrocold, an old friend of Miss Marple's, at her country estate. Carrie's husband, Lewis, confides to Miss Marple that he suspects someone is slowly poisoning his wife, and when Gilbranson visits the mansion, he is mysteriously murdered.
Old miss Marple is on a train ride when she witnesses a murder in a passing train. She reports it to the police but they won't believe her: since no body can be found there can't have been any murder, right? As always, she begins her own investigation. The murder was committed while passing Ackenthorpe Hall and miss Marple gets herself a job there, mixing cleaning and cooking while searching the house for clues.
Marple is extremely proud when she is appointed to the board of trustees of a merchant marine training vessel whose mission is to rehabilitate young criminals. As in all of her endeavors, Miss Marple intends to take an active role in the job and even shows up to the board meeting dressed in naval blues. When a fellow trustee is poisoned just prior to his making some kind of revelation, Miss Marple decides to use her position to spend time on the ship. This upsets the vessel's fragile social network as she dispossesses blustering Captain Rhumstone from his quarters. When two ship's officers are later found murdered also, Miss Marple enlists help from her friend Jim Stringer and Inspector Craddock to expose the murderer.
玛丽拉(伊丽莎白·泰勒 Elizabeth Taylor 饰)是一位在行业内声名显赫的电影明星,在一场宴会上,一起死亡事件的发生让她陷入了危险的境地。原来,死者死于一杯毒酒,而这杯毒酒本应被玛丽拉饮下。警方迅速介入了调查,随着线索的展开,玛丽拉的丈夫杰森(洛克·哈德森 Rock Hudson 饰)成为了终点怀疑对象。
不幸的是,事情并没有就此终结,神秘的匿名电话,诡异的敲诈字条,在巨大的压力之下,玛丽拉的精神迅速濒临着崩溃的边缘。杰森真的是凶手吗?又是谁对玛丽拉有着如此的深仇大恨呢?聪明的马普尔小姐(安吉拉·兰斯伯瑞 Angela Lansbury 饰)看出了其中的端倪,她能够顺利解决这一案件吗?
贝斯手克里斯托弗(亨利·方达 Henry Fonda 饰)与妻子萝丝(维拉·迈尔斯 Vera Miles 饰)过着平静的生活,虽然经济并不宽裕,但幸福的婚姻和可爱的孩子们让克里斯托弗觉得人生再无遗憾。萝丝需要一笔钱去治疗牙痛,囊中羞涩的克里斯托弗决定贷款,而当他拿着单据来到银行后,命运跟他开了一个天大的玩笑。
不明就里的克里斯托弗因为抢劫银行被警方逮捕,随着调查的深入,更多对于他的指控浮出了水面,虽然对这些指控毫不知情,但面对确凿的证据和证人,克里斯托弗哑口无言。在被保释后,克里斯托弗和萝丝委托律师开始调查整个事件的来龙去脉,可发现的所有线索都对克里斯托弗不利。正当夫妻两人开始绝望之时,事情出现的转机。
A mathematician and author, Luke Williams, is travelling up to London on a train when he meets a old lady, Lavinia Fullerton, who is also going to London, to Scotland Yard. Lavinia tells Luke that in her small village several people have died. The local police are certain that it was all accidental and are taking no action but Lavinia isn't convinced. In London Luke watches, horrified, as Lavinia is run over in a hit and run and he becomes convinced that she was telling the truth. He travels down to the village and with the aid of a local girl, who is also convinced that the deaths were murder, sets out to solve the mystery.