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Overview

User Rating:
6.9/10   246 votes
Director:
Julian Amyes
Writers:
Agatha Christie (novel)
T.R. Bowen (screenplay)
Release Date:
25 December 1986 (UK) more
Genre:
Crime | Mystery more
Plot:
Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help from Miss Marple. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
2 nominations more
User Comments:
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Cast

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Directed by
Julian Amyes 
 
Writing credits
Agatha Christie (novel)

T.R. Bowen (screenplay)

Produced by
George Gallaccio .... producer
Guy Slater .... executive producer
 
Original Music by
Ken Howard 
 
Cinematography by
John Walker (photography)
 
Film Editing by
Bernard Ashby 
 
Production Design by
Ray London  (as Raymond London)
 
Costume Design by
Juanita Waterson 
 
Makeup Department
Sylvia Thornton .... makeup designer
 
Production Management
Viv Rosenz .... production manager
 
Art Department
Paul Birkbeck .... title illustrations
Linda Sherwood-Page .... graphic designer
Francis Smith .... properties buyer
 
Sound Department
Bill Chesneau .... sound recordist
John Hale .... dubbing mixer
Robin Graham Scott .... dubbing editor (as Robin Graham-Scott)
 
Camera and Electrical Department
John Ward .... Steadicam operator
 
Music Department
John Altman .... musical director
Alan Blaikley .... composer: title music
Ken Howard .... composer: title music
Paul Kegg .... musician: cello (uncredited)
 
Other crew
Maggie Lewty .... production assistant (as Margaret Lewty)
Thea Murray .... production associate
Christopher Sandeman .... assistant floor manager
Chris Stanton .... assistant floor manager
Laurence Wilson .... location manager
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (UK) (series title)
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Runtime:
102 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Certification:
Australia:PG
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Company:
7 Network more

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Detective Inspector Slack: I thought it was looking too good to be true. I shoulds known better! Soon as I saw that nice looking, gray-haired cobra sliding about, I shoulda known better
Detective Sergeant Lake: Hunh?
Detective Inspector Slack: The Marple woman sticks to this sort of business like chewing gum to the cat.
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Movie Connections:
Version of Mord im Pfarrhaus (1970) (TV) more

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15 out of 16 people found the following comment useful:-
Classic Christie, 5 January 2003
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Author: Glyn Treharne from Irlam, England

It is difficult to understand ITV's decision to remake the Miss Marple series, because in Joan Hickson we have the definitive interpretation of Agatha Christie's amateur sleuth. This particular story, Miss Marple's first fictional outing,dates from 1930, but the writer, T.R. Bowen has skilfully updated it to the 1950s. The script is witty and the cast is endowed with such acting stalwarts as Paul Eddington and Rosalie Crutchley. If the plot does not seem so original now it is because Christie's work was so often copied, and what must have seemed innovative in 1930 now appears to be hackneyed. All that said it is a story well told and worth a couple of hours of anyone's time.

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