The Best Agatha Christie Movie Isn't a Murder Mystery
1979’s Agatha, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Dustin Hoffman, puts a spin on the real-life vanishing of Agatha Christie for 11 days.
“I’m so much happier now that I’m dead. Technically missing. Soon to be presumed dead.” These lines written down by Gillian Flynn, then spoken by Rosamund Pike, depict a woman who will go to extreme measures to deliver revenge on a lousy husband. Decades before Amy Dunne went missing in Gone Girl, there was a real-life scandal that was quite similar, when a world-famous author went missing, with clues pointing to a lousy husband as a major cause. This disappearing act involved the “Queen of Crime,” Agatha Christie, and lasted for 11 days in 1926. She vanished under strange circumstances that have never been properly explained to this day. The enduring mystery gets an answer in 1979's Agatha, with a syringe that injects not poison, but a substantial amount of fiction into a mystery plot that could make anyone assume it was written by Christie, herself.
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