A Caribbean Mystery vs Born to Be Sold
A Caribbean Mystery has the higher audience score (6.2/10 against 3.8/10 for Born to Be Sold). A Caribbean Mystery is the shorter watch at 1h 28m compared with 1h 36m. Born to Be Sold is the older of the two (1981 against 1983). Both are crime, thriller, tv movie movies, so they suit a similar mood.
| A Caribbean Mystery | Born to Be Sold | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.2/10 | ★ 3.8/10 |
| Year | 1983 | 1981 |
| Length | 1h 28m | 1h 36m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, TV Movie | Crime, Thriller, TV Movie |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Robert Michael Lewis | Burt Brinckerhoff |
| Main cast | George Innes, Swoosie Kurtz, Barnard Hughes, Zakes Mokae, Brock Peters | Ed Nelson, Claire Malis, Dean Stockwell, Lynda Carter, Harold Gould |
Synopsis
A Caribbean Mystery
Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Jane Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort they're staying at is a Bluebeard-type wife murderer. Unfortunately, the Major succumbs to an apparently accidental overdose of alcohol and blood pressure medication before revealing the killer's identity. When it's discovered that the medicine belonged to another guest and the revealing…
Born to Be Sold
A social worker tries to break up a ring of crooks who buy newborn babies from teenaged mothers and sell them to couples who can't obtain them through legal adoption channels.
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