Sparkling Cyanide

Nov 5, 1983

1h 40m

★ 6.1

One sip lasts forever.

Overview

The beautiful but unfaithful wife of a successful lawyer meets her untimely end at their anniversary dinner. After a suicide note is found soon after her death, it seems more likely that she was murdered, as all the dinner guests had good reason to want her dead.

Genres

Crime

Thriller

Mystery

TV Movie

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Television

CBS Entertainment Productions

The Stan Margolies Company

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Cast

Tony Browne

Anthony Andrews

Iris Murdoch

Deborah Raffin

Ruth Lessing

Pamela Bellwood

Lucilla Drake

Nancy Marchand

George Barton

Josef Sommer

Stephan Farraday

David Huffman

Rosemary Barton

Christine Belford

Sandra Farraday

June Chadwick

Eric Kidderminster

Barrie Ingham

Captain Kemp

Harry Morgan

Viola Kidderminster

Anne Rogers

Victor Drake

Michael Woods

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