The Murders in the Rue Morgue (TV)
1986·United States·100 min.
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Edgar Allan Poe's classic 1841 detective story Murders in the Rue Morgue was adapted for television by David Epstein. Two women--a mother and a daughter--are brutally killed in their tiny Paris apartment. There are no eyewitnesses, and the earwitnesses are wildly contradictory. The evidence points to a man of superhuman strength: perhaps it was the girl's jealous fiance. Enter consulting detective C. Auguste Dupin (George C. Scott), who with a methodical application of logic solves the mystery.
DirectorJeannot Szwarc
MusicCharles Gross
CinematographyBruno de Keyzer
CastGeorge C. Scott·Val Kilmer·Rebecca De Mornay·Ian McShane·Neil Dickson·Fernand Guiot·Maud Rayer·Patrick Floersheim·Maxence Mailfort·Yvette Petit
Original titleThe Murders in the Rue Morgue (TV)