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Agatha Christie (novel)
T.R. Bowen (screenplay)
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View company contact information for Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: 4:50 from Paddington on IMDbPro.
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25 February 1987 (UK) more
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A friend of Miss Marple's sees a woman being strangled in a passing train through the window of hers. When police cannot find a body and doubt the story, Miss Marple enlists her niece to go undercover. full summary | add synopsis
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Missed Train more (6 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Joan Hickson | ... | Miss Jane Marple |
| Juliette Mole | ... | Anna Stravinska |
| David Beames | ... | Bryan Eastley |
| Mona Bruce | ... | Mrs. McGillicuddy |
| Nicholas Blane | ... | Paddington Porter |
| Katy Jarrett | ... | Mary |
| Leslie Adams | ... | Desk Sergeant |
| David Horovitch | ... | Detective Inspector Slack |
| Ian Brimble | ... | Detective Sergeant Lake |
| Rhoda Lewis | ... | Mrs. Brogan |
| Jill Meager | ... | Lucy Eyelesbarrow |
| Joanna David | ... | Emma Crackenthorpe |
| Maurice Denham | ... | Luther Crackenthorpe |
| Andrew Burt | ... | Dr. John Quimper |
| Pamela Pitchford | ... | Mrs. Kidder |
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Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: 4:50 from Paddington (USA)
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington (UK) (series title)
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UK:110 min
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Miss Jane Marple: But of course you must go on searching, Inspector! Now you might say that Elspeth is not a sophisticated person, but, I assure you, she has both feet firmly on the ground. She saw what she saw! more
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Follows Sleeping Murder (1987) (TV) more
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The Marple stories - many of them - are lessons in narrative placement. We start with the basic notion of the mystery narrator shuffling through multiple created realities looking for what makes sense. Marple turns that into the clever notion of detection as gossip: the constructed realities of small town busybodies imposing a simple order on what they hear.
Read this story and see how wonderfully it plays this intelligent game. Now watch this movie version and see how it completely loses this neat idea.
Instead, they follow the BBC rule of exploiting interesting faces and spaces. Lucy IS lovely, but the magic of the mystery is long gone.
Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.