FILM · 1982
Murder Is Easy
10 archived facts 2 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026
10 Interesting Facts About Murder Is Easy
Interesting Facts (9)
- #001
Murder Is Easy was the only film in Bill Bixby's long career shot entirely outside the United States.
- #002
The events of Murder Is Easy take place in Wychwood Under Ashe, while in Agatha Christie's 1939 novel the village is hyphenated as Wychwood-under-Ashe.
- #003
This adaptation does not mention that Dr Geoffrey Thomas is engaged to Rose Humbleby, as the novel does.
- #004
This adaptation omits the novel's supporting characters Inspector Battle, Mrs Anstruther, Jessie Humbleby, Mrs Church, Jim Harvey and Sir William Ossington.
- #005
Although he is not named in this adaptation, the vicar's name in the novel is Alfred Wake.
- #006
Bridget Conway and Jimmy Lorrimer are cousins in the novel, but they are not related in this adaptation.
- #007
In this adaptation Amy Gibbs has just left Mr Ellsworthy, rather than Jim Harvey as in the novel.
- #008
This adaptation changes the surnames of Luke Fitzwilliam, Lavinia Pinkerton and Lord Gordon Whitfield to Williams, Fullerton and Easterfield respectively; similarly, Dr Humbleby's first name was changed from John to Clarence.
- #009
Mrs Pierce runs a tobacco and paper shop in the novel, but in this adaptation she serves as a barmaid.
Deeper Meaning (1)
- #010
In the novel Luke Fitzwilliam is a retired police officer, while in this adaptation Luke Williams is a professor of mathematical probability at MIT; his nationality was changed from British to American.
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