The Lady in Question (1999 film)

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. It was broadcast by A&E on December 12, 1999.

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.

Although A&E and Granada Entertainment USA planned to develop the Gene Wilder character as a franchise, 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.

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