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.[1][2] It was broadcast by A&E on December 12, 1999.[3]

The Lady in Question
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Genre	Period mystery Crime thriller
Written by	Gene Wilder Gilbert Pearlman
Directed by	Joyce Chopra
Starring	Gene Wilder Mike Starr Cherry Jones Barbara Sukowa John Benjamin Hickey Michael Cumpsty Claire Bloom
Music by	John Morris
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	Delia Fine Antony Root
Producers	Stan Margulies Craig McNeil Steven Paul
Production location	Toronto
Cinematography	Bruce Surtees
Editor	Angelo Corrao
Running time	100 minutes
Production companies	Crystal Sky Worldwide Granada Entertainment The Stan Margolies Company
Distributor	A&E Networks
Release
Original network	A&E
Original release	December 12, 1999 (1999-12-12)
Chronology
Preceded by	Murder in a Small Town

Cast

• Gene Wilder as Larry "Cash" Carter
• Mike Starr as Det. Tony Rossini
• Cherry Jones as Mimi Barnes
• Barbara Sukowa as Rachel Singer
• John Benjamin Hickey as Paul Kessler
• Claire Bloom as Emma Sachs
• Michael Cumpsty as Klaus Gruber
• Dixie Seatle as Gertie Moser

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.[4]

Although A&E and Granada Entertainment USA planned to develop the Gene Wilder character as a franchise,[4][5] 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.[6]^: 237

Home video releases

• 1999, A&E Home Video, VHS (AAE-17606), ISBN 0-7670-2316-1
• 2002, A&E Home Video, DVD (AAE-72223), ISBN 0-7670-6956-0

References

External links

• The Lady in Question at IMDb
• The Lady in Question at the Wayback Machine (archived September 3, 2000)
• The Gene Wilder Papers at the University of Iowa — Scripts and correspondence for The Lady in Question