- JULIA MCKENZIE MARPLE EPISODES MOVIE
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- JULIA MCKENZIE MARPLE EPISODES SERIES
Cresswell (Julia Sawalha), seems more annoyed by his death than upset. Although Christie audiences are suspicious of all death, we take comfort in knowing that the butler couldn’t have done it. But the audience watches him fall and his death appears to be straightforward. Soon, the butler falls to his death while changing a light bulb. The exposition unravels slowly, as we meet other characters: Folly guest, historian Horace Bindler (Rufus Jones) a seemingly kindly reverend some friends of Miss Marple’s who knit clothing for children in a nearby orphanage a quiet gardener, Alfred Pollock (Martin Compston) and Miss Greenshaw’s nephew, the self-important minor actor Nat Fletcher (Sam Reid). The Folly is the home of the eccentric botanist, Miss Greenshaw (Fiona Shaw, “Harry Potter”), who has devoted her life to developing a codex of medicinal plants. Miss Marple helps Louisa (Kimberly Nixon), with her young son (Bobby Smalldridge), escape an abusive husband by finding her a secretarial position at the Folly, a spooky tear-down of a country home with stately grounds. Shakespearean sonnets, flowers, birthdays, poisons and half a century of secrets all play a role in the exciting “Greenshaw’s Folly,” adapted from two of Christie’s short stories, “The Thumb Mark of St.
JULIA MCKENZIE MARPLE EPISODES SERIES
A 1989 BBC TV adaptation starred Joan Hickson as part of the BBC series “Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple,” with Donald Pleasence as Rafiel.)
JULIA MCKENZIE MARPLE EPISODES MOVIE
A 1983 TV movie adaptation starred Helen Hayes as Miss Marple and Barnard Hughes as Rafiel. (If you think you have seen “A Caribbean Mystery” before, you well may have. The tycoon Rafiel appears posthumously in Christie’s great novel, “Nemesis,” where he sends Miss Marple on a case specifically because of her success in solving the convoluted events in “A Caribbean Mystery.” Higson has published a series of books about a young James Bond, so he must have enjoyed writing himself and his character into the script. We have the fun of watching Fleming “borrow” the James Bond name from an ornithologist, who is played by the episode’s writer, Charlie Higson. Unfortunately, they are too late to prevent the deaths of a money-starved maid and a money-hungry blond, before they solve the unlikely solution to the mystery.Īnd who does Miss Marple bump into on the island but Agatha Christie’s contemporary, Ian Fleming (Jeremy Crutchley). Under a ruse, Miss Marple tries to retrieve the damning photograph, but it has disappeared.Īnother guest, the ailing and irritable business magnate Jason Rafiel (Sir Antony Sher, “God on Trial”), becomes Miss Marple’s ally and helps her put together the pieces of the murder puzzle. The next day he is found dead in his room.
But before he can show it to her, he recognizes someone and quickly puts it away.
JULIA MCKENZIE MARPLE EPISODES SERIAL
A loquacious Major Palgrave engages Miss Marple in banal conversation, until he mentions his photograph of a serial killer.
Written in 1964, “A Caribbean Mystery,” finds our Jane vacationing at a deluxe hotel on a gloriously technicolor tropical West Indies island (actually filmed in South Africa). While in “Endless Night,” she exhibits courage almost to the point of recklessness. Miss Marple has help in resolving “A Caribbean Mystery.” In “Greenshaw’s Folly,” she nervously hesitates and stammers while revealing the solution of the crimes that only she has been astute enough to decipher.
Mary Mead’s master sleuth, though imbued with intelligence, shrewdness and wisdom, often hides these qualities under her disguise as an elderly “spinster lady.” It is interesting to notice the variations in her approach to crime-solving in these terrific episodes. PT/ET respectively) and “Endless Night” (Sept. Twinkly-eyed Julia McKenzie (“Cranford”) is back as Miss Marple in three new productions of well-acted, tightly written, complex and mysterious cases - “A Caribbean Mystery” and “Greenshaw’s Folly” (Sept.
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