The Man in the Brown Suit (1989 film)

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The Man in the Brown Suit
Directed byAlan Grint
Screenplay byCarla Jean Wagner
Starring
  • Rue McClanahan
  • Tony Randall
  • Edward Woodward
  • Stephanie Zimbalist
  • Ken Howard
CinematographyKen Westbury
Music byArthur B. Rubinstein
Production
companies
  • Alan Shayne Productions
  • Warner Bros Television
Release date
4 January 1989
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Man in the Brown Suit is a television movie adaptation of an Agatha Christie mystery novel of the same name about an American woman getting involved in a diamond theft in South Africa. [1] [2]

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Plot

A tourist visiting Cairo witnesses a murder and after that sees a man in a brown suit fleeing the scene. She boards a ship and assumes that one of her fellow passengers is the criminal and that they also plan to steal a cache of diamonds. However, all of her traveling companies appear to be potential suspects. [3]

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