
Dead Man's Folly(1986)
During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.


Leonard Rossiter
Cyril Dugdale

Nina Baden-Semper
Felicity Rae Ingram (as Nina Baden Semper)

Kate O'Mara
Pat Livingston

Ewen Solon
Geoffrey Livingston

Colin Welland
Bone
June Barrie
Olive Dugdale

Tim Preece
Des

Gabrielle Rose
Jan
Shaun Curry
Frank
Hal Galili
Bush
Machinegunner is a thriller, crime, tv movie film released in 1976. Directed by Patrick Dromgoole, it stars Leonard Rossiter, Nina Baden-Semper, Kate O'Mara. A 'machinegunner' (West Country slang for a debt-collector) turns amateur sleuth, but finds himself in hot water with local criminals.
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