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. It was broadcast by A&E on December 12, 1999.
Plot
Cast
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.Dempsey, John, "A&E commits more 'Murder'". Daily Variety, April 6, 1999
Although A&E and Granada Entertainment USA planned to develop the Gene Wilder character as a franchise,DePalma, Anthony, "Wilder Goes Back in Time to Move Ahead". The New York Times, January 10, 1999 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.Wilder, Gene, Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005, SBN 0-312-33706-X.
Home video releases 1999, A&E Home Video, VHS (AAE-17606), 2002, A&E Home Video, DVD (AAE-72223),
References
External links
The Gene Wilder Papers at the University of Iowa — Scripts and correspondence for The Lady in Question