Movie: 'Gosford Park'

Gosford Park is screening at the Westport Branch on Thursday, November 5, as part of the Kansas City Public Library's Retro Mystery Movies series. It's a movie set in the 1930s, when a group of pretentious rich and famous people gather for a weekend of hunting at a country estate, and a murder turns each of them into a suspect. It's a classic country-house mystery, the kind where the guest list is half the point.

The screening fits into a larger pattern. Retro Mystery Movies programs films based on books from the 1930s to the 1950s, and the first Thursday of the month is always devoted to the Golden Age of Mystery—the era of Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. If you're into that specific kind of puzzle, this is exactly the slot to keep an eye on.

Gosford Park is rated R and runs 2 hours and 17 minutes. The screening is at the Westport Branch, part of the Kansas City Public Library system.