Name That Movie!

[Lord Jim]

"Murder On The Orient Express" (Hercule Poirot was darkly comical at times.)

[Lord Jim]

Another quote:

Oh, I wish you'd let me do something camp with the colour, darling. Like flame with ash highlights.

[Lord Jim]

Okay, I'm going to leave the names in this time...

If nobody gets it after this then, I guess nobody else has seen the movie:

Peregrine Devlin: Hello, Edwina. I thought it was you.

Edwina : Well, the brilliant Peregrine Devlin. Wielder of the brutal aphorism, master of the killing phrase, my father's murderer.

Peregrine Devlin: That's a bit melodramatic, isn't it?

Edwina : Forgive me. I forgot. It was your reverence and admiration that drove him to take his own life.

Also, the starring actor is most famous for horror movies in the 50s and 60s, and the starring actress is most famous for a campy 60s spy-fi TV show ...

[MajGenl.Meade]

Get Smart or Man from U.N.C.L.E.?

[Lord Jim]

[MajGenl.Meade]

The Avengers?

[Lord Jim]

The Avengers is the TV show that the starring actress in this movie is best known for...

[Bicycle Bill]

The Avengers is the TV show that the starring actress in this movie is best known for...

That means the female is Diana Rigg (nobody remembers Linda Thorson).
And a male best known for '50s and '60s horror movies.  Might that be Christopher Lee?

-"BB"-

[Lord Jim]

No, not Lee...

Like Rigg, he was also the host of the PBS anthology series Mystery! for a time...

[RayThom]

... Peregrine Devlin: That's a bit melodramatic, isn't it?...

"The Maltese Falcon"

[Lord Jim]

It's pretty clear at this point that no one here has seen this movie, (well, presumably Big RR has, but he hasn't checked in the last few days)

Here's one last clue, an excerpt from the plot summary:

A serial killer stalks London, targeting theater critics who he kills in methods inspired by Shakespeare plays. The police grow to suspect the killer is an egotistical actor who leaped to his presumed death after being denied an important award, mainly due to his refusing to appear in any play not written by Shakespeare. The remaining critics and the police find themselves helpless to stop his increasingly baroque revenge.

If no one gets it by tomorrow morning I will give the answer and post a new one....

[Bicycle Bill]

It's pretty clear at this point that no one here has seen this movie, (well, presumably Big RR has, but he hasn't checked in the last few days)

I googled the ploy synopsis and you're right.  I have never seen this one.

-"BB"-

[Big RR]

Edited to post correct title

Jim--I think that is Theater of Blood.

[Lord Jim]

I was somewhat surprised that nobody else here had seen it...

If you like well written clever and campy black comedy, I highly recommend it...

In addition to Price and Rigg, it also featured Jack Hawkins and a number of well known British character actors and actresses...(like Robert Morley and Arthur Lowe)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070791/

ETA:

I'm glad you answered it Big RR...

If nobody had gotten it, and I had to start a new one, my next clue was going to be "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates" just to try and move things along...

[Big RR]

Acutally, I liked it as well, and I am not the biggest fan of camp.

this should be an easier one:

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TOTAL Infertility! In plants and animals. Not just disease in a few herds... Or the loss of a single crop. But the destruction of a whole strain. Forever! Throughout an entire continent. If my demands are not met, I shall proceed with the systematic extinction of whole species of cereals and livestock all over the world! 

[MajGenl.Meade]

Dr. No

[Bicycle Bill]

Dr. No

It's a Bond film, but not that one. The line is Ernst Stavros Blofeld (as played by Telly Savalas), monologing to 007 in
"On Her Majesty's Secret Service".


-"BB"-

[Big RR]

Not Dr No .

ETA: You got it BB. that was my favorite Bond film, even with Lazenby in the role.

[Bicycle Bill]

Not Dr No .

ETA: You got it BB. that was my favorite Bond film, even with Lazenby in the role.

Thanks.  I had the wrong movie originally; thought it was "Moonraker" but then I remembered that Drax (Michael Lonsdale) wanted to destroy all human life across the globe and then re-populate it with his version of "the master race".  Blofeld just wanted to bring Great Britain and Europe to its knees (to start with, anyway).

And as far as George Lazenby goes, if he had been given a fair chance — by which I mean another couple of movies — I think he could have carried off the role.  The thing was, Lazenby had some big shoes to fill.  In the eyes of the fandom there could be only one Bond and that was Sean Connery .... accept no substitutes!  And George Lazenby wasn't Sean Connery.  That was the biggest obstacle in his path and the one he could never overcome.

-"BB"-

[Bicycle Bill]

New quote:

"When a man is a killer, arsonist, a cheat, and a coward, it's hardly surprising if he turns out to be a liar as well."

-"BB"-