本片由Alan  Grint  执导,邀请演员斯蒂芬尼·齐姆巴丽斯特  爱德华·伍德华德  露·麦克拉纳罕  托尼·兰德尔  肯·霍华德  出演的恐怖片类型电影，讲述Based on a 1924 mystery novel by Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit was the eighth of Warner Bros. Television's Christie-inspired TV movies. Stephanie Zimbalist stars as an American tourist in Cairo (with Spain standing in for Egypt). She runs across a mysterious murder, and an odd encounter with a stranger; all this occurs even before she sets foot on a luxury liner with an all-suspect passenger manifest. It is established that the murderer, who is after a cache of valuable diamonds, is an internationally notorious criminal--but which one of the passengers is he (or she) Maybe the villain romantic lead Simon Dutton, the man in the brown suit of the title...but don't discount such special guest suspects as Rue McClanahan and Tony Randall.