The Lady in Question (1999 film)
1999 American television film
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The Lady in Question is a 1999 American television mystery crime-thriller film directed by Joyce Chopra. It represents the last leading role and film for Gene Wilder and his last credit as screenwriter. As in the previous film Murder in a Small Town, Wilder plays the amateur detective Larry "Cash" Carter.[1][2] It was broadcast by A&E on December 12, 1999.[3]
- Gene Wilder
- Gilbert Pearlman
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| Directed by | Joyce Chopra |
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| Music by | John Morris |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
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Production location | Toronto |
| Cinematography | Bruce Surtees |
| Editor | Angelo Corrao |
| Running time | 100 minutes |
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| Network | A&E |
| Release | December 12, 1999 |
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| Murder in a Small Town | |
Plot
Cast
- Gene Wilder as Larry "Cash" Carter
- Mike Starr as Det. Tony Rossini
- Cherry Jones as Mimi Barnes
- Barbara Sukowa as Rachel Singer
- John Benjamin Hickey as Paul Kessler
- Claire Bloom as Emma Sachs
- Michael Cumpsty as Klaus Gruber
- Dixie Seatle as Gertie Moser
Production
After the high ratings A&E received for Murder in a Small Town, the first Cash Carter mystery, The Lady in Question began filming in Toronto in May 1999.[4]
Although A&E and Granada Entertainment USA planned to develop the Gene Wilder character as a franchise,[4][5] only two Cash Carter films were produced. On January 30, 2000, Wilder was admitted to Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center for a stem-cell transplant, a follow-up to treatment he received in 1999 for non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Wilder checked in under the name Larry Carter, his character's name in the two A&E films.[6]: 237
Home video releases
- 1999, A&E Home Video, VHS (AAE-17606), ISBN 0-7670-2316-1
- 2002, A&E Home Video, DVD (AAE-72223), ISBN 0-7670-6956-0