She Fell Among Thieves
The BBC drama that launched Mystery! on PBS.
1978 en 78 minutes
Rating: 7
Plot
While on a Pyrenees vacation in 1922, upright English gentleman Richard Chandos (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, Heroes) encounters the villainous Vanity Fair (Eileen Atkins, Cold Mountain). Mistress of the turreted Chateau Jezreel and leader of a motley band of criminals, she will inherit millions if she can force her stepdaughter to marry. Pitting his wits against this formidable adversary, Chandos determines to rescue the beautiful young woman. But Vanity Fair keeps one step ahead of him, a trick forever up her sleeve and murder in her heart.
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Cast
Malcolm McDowell
Richard Chandos
Eileen Atkins
Vanity Fair
Michael Jayston
Mansel
Karen Dotrice
Jenny
Sarah Badel
Virginia
Philip Locke
Acorn
Richard Pearson
Father Below
Freda Jackson
Lafone
Bernard Hill
Carson
Ralph Arliss
Bell
Simon Cadell
Candle
Jonathan Lynn
Gaston
Pat Gorman
Jean
Derek Deadman
Luis
Antony Scott
Marc