With Pauline Collins, Oliver Ford Davies, Kenneth Cranham, Jonathan Firth. Alice replaces her on the set while Laurence investigates. 1h 34m . A famous movie star commits suicide during the shooting of her latest film. The 1983 film is dated but there is something enjoyable about it, and while not necessarily a good adaptation The Yellow Iris Poirot mystery was interesting. In this TV movie, a classic mystery is updated and relocated to a glamorous world of London socialites and secret agents, introducing two unique and compelling investigators and taking us through to the highest corridors of power. Directed by Tristram Powell. Sparkling Cyanide is a very good story if perhaps not one of Agatha Christie's masterpieces. Synopsis An Englishman searches for a killer who poisons the rich and famous with champagne. Agatha ... Sparkling Cyanide. Sparkling Cyanide is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1945 under the title of Remembered Death and in UK by the Collins Crime Club in the December of the same year under Christie's original title. The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at eight shillings and sixpence (8/6). Sparkling Cyanide (TV Movie 2003) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.