Annal:1984 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Motion Picture
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 1984. For a ranked list of films, try an honor roll:
- 1984 Edgar–Video winner
- Score: 10.34
Martin Cruz Smith’s bestselling mystery novel seemed ideally cast for this movie version, but director Michael Apted and the usually reliable writer Dennis Potter couldn’t solve the problem of taking the story from the page to the screen. William Hurt plays Renko, a Cold War-era Moscow police detective who must cope with both crooks and Communist party protocol as he tries to solve a murder case in the middle of one of Moscow’s public parks that leaves three faceless corpses. The strands of the mystery involve corruption, American money, and the fur trade and,…
