Mirror Cracked, The
Date: 1980
Director: Guy Hamilton
Production Company: EMI Films
Stars: Angela Lansbury, Edward Fox, Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Tony Curtis
Location(s): Heaverham, Shoreham, Smarden (Kent), Compton Wynyates (Warwickshire)
Region(s): South East M-Q
Storyline:
Agatha Christie whodunnit as a group of film stars congregate around Miss Marple’s local village. Big mistake. SJ
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- Capture 1
- 'Now' required
An interior seen in the prologue. Could it be Compton Wynyates?
- Capture 2
- 16 Aug 2014
Ye Olde George Inn, Shoreham, Kent
A good excuse for a beer! (RL)
- Capture 3
- 28 Mar 2013
Smarden, Kent
Looking north-east from the church of St. Michael. SJ
- Capture 4
- 29 May 2015
Lansbury's cottage: she's pruning the roses above the 9.
A non-trespassing shot. SJ
- Capture 5
- 13 Aug 2014
Nice big house: St Clere estate near Heaverham, Kent.
My sincere thanks and gratitude to Eliza Ecclestone for showing me the locations and allowing me the freedom of the St Clere Estate to take all the photographs. I am assured that the tree is still there but hedges and a planted field determined the shot. (RL)
- Capture 6
- 13 Aug 2014
Curtis and Novak arrive at the village fete. St Clere Estate, Heaverham near Kemsing.
No such arrivals at the time of my visit. (RL)
- Capture 7
- 13 Aug 2014
An interior as Novak and Taylor exchange some classic bitchy dialogue, just before the first murder.
A slightly off angle and wider shot giving a better appreciation of the location and the changes effected during filming. (RL)
- Capture 8
- 29 May 2015
Fox's sinister hand approaches Lansbury's cottage.
Well it took two visits to find but it's The Thatched Cottage, aptly named, Cage Lane, Smarden just south of the River Beult. SJ
- Capture 9
- 13 Aug 2014
A shot of St Clere as Fox begins his investigations.
A shot of St Clere during my exploration. (RL)
- Capture 10
- 13 Aug 2014
Hudson and Fox on the north side of St Clere, with Chaplin emerging from the manor house.
Only I emerged during my visit. (RL)
- Capture 11
- 16 Aug 2014
A charming bridge. Church Street, Shoreham, Kent
And the greenery just keeps growing. (RL)
- Capture 12
- 28 Mar 2013
Chequer's Inn, The Street, Smarden
Looking east from the corner of Water Lane. SJ
- Capture 13
- 'Now' required
Fox and Lansbury at her cottage. "Miss Marple's at St Mary Mead."
- Capture 14
- 13 Aug 2014
Chaplin at St Clere.
The greenery has been attended to in the intervening years. (RL)
- Capture 15
- 'Now' required
Chaplin sneezes at a phone box, supposedly in front of Lansbury's cottage. She's walked from St Clere so it will be quite a journey wherever she ended up.
- Capture 16
- 13 Aug 2014
Taylor at a window at St Clere.
I don't think I was spied on! (RL)
- Capture 17
- 28 Mar 2013
Lansbury and Fox step onto the intersection of Cage Lane and The Street, Smarden.
Looking east down The Street with The Chequers Inn (qv) on the left. SJ
- Capture 18
- 28 Mar 2013
On The Street, Smarden.
Looking west outside the village store overlooked by the church of St. Michael SJ
- Capture 19
- 28 Mar 2013
The other side of The Street.
Car parked just in the wrong place for exact angle. SJ
- Capture 20
- 13 Aug 2014
St Clere with some brief location hints.
Sat Nav takes you right there! (RL)