Murder, She Wrote: Truck Stop (1989)
- Director(s):
- Vincent McEveety
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This slick and stylish episode is something of a variation of the classic film noir DOA, with overtones of Raymond Chandler. Travelling to Hollywood in the company of elderly writer Walter Murray (Mike Connors), with whom she is slated to collaborate on a movie script, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) makes a brief stop at a seedy motel-diner. Later that evening, Walter is found dead in his motel room, leaving behind a tape recording detailing the events leading up to his demise. In a series of stunningly photographed black-and-white flashbacks, Jessica learns that on the previous evening, Walter had been reunited with a woman (Elizabeth Ashley) whom he hadn't seen in 19 years--not since he killed her abusive husband! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Mike Connors - Walter Murray
- Peter Haskell - Locke
- Andrew Prine - Roscoe
- Ken Swofford - Sheriff Tugman
- Isaac Turner - Grange
- Elizabeth Ashley - Vera Gerakaris
- Ron Karabatsos - Pete Gerakaris
- Jill Schoelen - Flora
- Kristoffer Tabori - Desmond
- Director(s):
- Vincent McEveety
- Writer(s):
- Philip Gerson
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