Spider's Web

Dec 26, 1982

1h 35m

★ 7.3

Overview

Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?' she muses. Clarissa has her chance to find out when she discovers a body in the drawing-room of her house in Kent.

Genres

Mystery

Crime

Thriller

TV Movie

Production Companies

BBC

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Cast

Clarissa Hailsham-Brown

Penelope Keith

Sir Rowland Delahaye

Robert Flemyng

Hugo Birch

Thorley Walters

Pippa Hailsham-Brown

Holly Aird

Mildred Peake

Elizabeth Spriggs

Jeremy Warrender

David Yelland

Inspector Lord

John Barcroft

Henry Hailsham-Brown

Jonathan Newth

Oliver Costello

Brian Protheroe

Elgin

David Crosse

Constable Jones

Mark Draper

Doctor

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