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Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man (2001)

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13:35-15:35 Sat 28th Mar 2015 120m
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Synopsis

Angela Lansbury enjoys a bit of novelty casting in this third TV movie based on the popular TV series. In a tale about a 140-year-old mystery, Lansbury plays both the crime-busting Jessica Fletcher and Fletcher's own great aunt, in a series of flashbacks that help to shed light on the case of a slave who was lynched after being accused of the murder of a white plantation owner. The drama soft-soaps the racial issues that placed the blame on the slave (played by Michael Jace), but there's a brave attempt to tie in the period flashbacks with a contemporary controversy involving Jace's academic descendant, Phylicia Rashad, and David Ogden Stiers's pompous bigot.