It's nice to remind ourselves, now that it's been submerged in a casebook full of Jessica Fletcher mysteries, of Angela Lansbury's reputation as a fine actress. She and Denholm Elliott produce the finest performances of their latter days in this misty-eyed and sometimes painfully poignant adaptation of Jon Hassler's best-seller. Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman, who wrote the trail-breaking AIDS telefilm An Early Frost, have a good grasp here on the frustrations and bitterness than can warp lives. Their perceptive teleplay couldn't have better interpreters than Lansbury, as the iron-fisted teacher at a Catholic school who, upset by the new Bishop (Robert Prosky), resolves to take a last stab at romantic happiness with her Irish pen-pal, and Elliott, wonderfully visibly conscience-stricken as the man who proves almost inevitably to have a guilty secret once she arrives to see him in a verdantly shot Ireland.


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