Miss Marple 29th Dec. Really enjoyed it!

[SapphireMoon]

I wonder if anyone else enjoyed this? I often fall asleep in crime drama but found this one enthralling and gripping.
I am not a one for having my brain overly stretched so maybe I am alone in finding this a box of chocolates sort of watch.

I wondered at the end why Marple put herself in danger of being killed, anyway as she reminded him of his Mum it was ok . The guy who also played Richard in The While Queen, only seems to have one way of acting.

Felt a bit forced as Miss M didn't really need to be there.

Yes there were holes but didn't mind.
Agree the Mum thing was strange and the Mum character very much sidelined.

Got bit confused about the power of attourney American man too. If he knew about plot/ suspected it why so quiet?
Also [may have got glass of wine at this point] why did architect friend come to house all agitated at end? Also did he feel beholden to villain but not really like him?

Architect friend knew he was dying so came to leave a last letter, then found the watch. didn't get the legal angles but suspect that is more explained in the book. Who sent the newspaper cutting , his mother ?

Oh his mother? Thought Attourney.

Tamsin Outhwaite rather underused I felt.

The book is very different,quite dark,and no Miss Marple turning up at odd times! In the book,as I remember he is obsessed with memories of Ellie at the end and that's why he kills Greta. It was filmed years ago with Hayley Mills as Ellie and Hywel Bennett as Mike.

I would like to see the Hayley Mills version.

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Might have to get 1970s version and maybe read the book too.
Thanks for the link.

I thought it was good and liked the way it was narrated. I usually get a bit bored as they are a bit samey. It was similar to Evil under the Sun in some senses with the poor man engineering a marriage to an American heiress with a bit on the side.

Yes I thought it was similar to the Egypt one.

Sorry but when it had finished DH and I agreed that it was two hours of our lives we would never get back. Worse than dreadful.

But I stayed awake- a good sign!
Midsummer murders and I fall asleep half way through and wake up for the 'reveal'.

It wasn't up to the usual standard. I found it a bit tedious at the beginning.

Julia McKenzie had been filming Gangsta Granny, so maybe it was done to fit around that schedule (?)

The mother character was odd, and also why Jane seemed to be in the village for so long.

they keep making Miss Marple stories out of books that don't have Miss Marple in them. As with Poirot, they seem to be completely indifferent to Agatha Christie's books, and you wonder why they bother.

I am listening to 'The Sittaford Mystery' on the radio - nothing like the ITV version. I must read the books - I don't think Miss Marple is in either.

I think Julia McKenzie makes a good Marple and it is still a
popular programme, probably selling well in the States and
other countries.So to keep the brand going the producers
have to find stories for Marple to pop up in- or more accurately,be
injected into.

The main problem would seem that the Marple novels were filmed (very faithfully) by the BBC in the late 1980s starring Joan Hickson, and then again more lavishly (and loosley) about fifteen years later by ITV starring Geraldine McEwan. Unless they start refilming the novels once again, there are really only Agatha's short stories to work with, or novels which don't feature Marple at all, but might be adapted to include her.

At Bertram's Hotel again anyone ?