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2 January 2005 (USA)
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The residents of Chipping Cleghorn are astonished to read an advert in the local newspaper that a murder...
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Nominated for Primetime Emmy.
Another 2 nominations
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Please! No! Stop doing this!
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Geraldine McEwan | ... | Miss Jane Marple |
 | Christian Coulson | ... | Edmund Swettenham |
| Cherie Lunghi | ... | Mrs. Swettenham |
 | Robert Pugh | ... | Colonel Easterbrook |
 | Keeley Hawes | ... | Philippa Haymes |
| Zoë Wanamaker | ... | Letitia Blacklock |
| Claire Skinner | ... | Amy Murgatroyd |
| Frances Barber | ... | Lizzie Hinchcliffe |
| Elaine Paige | ... | Dora Bunner |
 | Matthew Goode | ... | Patrick Simmons |
 | Sienna Guillory | ... | Julia Simmons |
| Catherine Tate | ... | Mitzi Kosinski |
 | Christian Rubeck | ... | Rudi Schertz (as Christian Pedersen) |
| Alexander Armstrong | ... | DI Craddock |
| Richard Dixon | ... | Mr. Rowlandson |
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Amy Murgatroyd:
What do you think it means?
Lizzie Hinchcliffe: It means going round to Letitia Blacklock's and having bad sherry - that's what it means - and then having to pretend to murder one of the neighbours.
Amy Murgatroyd: And will the lights suddenly go out?
Lizzie Hinchcliffe: Well, that's usually the form.
Amy Murgatroyd: And will there be screaming?
Lizzie Hinchcliffe: Well, if you've got anything to do with it, yes, I expect so.
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Lizzie Hinchcliffe: It means going round to Letitia Blacklock's and having bad sherry - that's what it means - and then having to pretend to murder one of the neighbours.
Amy Murgatroyd: And will the lights suddenly go out?
Lizzie Hinchcliffe: Well, that's usually the form.
Amy Murgatroyd: And will there be screaming?
Lizzie Hinchcliffe: Well, if you've got anything to do with it, yes, I expect so.
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Featured in There's Something About Christie... Murder Made Simple (2007) (TV)
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On the bright side, this was the best of the initial four of Agatha Christie's Marple. However, as it is an outstanding book, and among the finest Miss Marple mysteries, even ITV would have had to put some effort into ruining it. But they still had a decent go at ruining it anyway!
Please watch the Joan Hickson version. It's glorious. Beautifully written, with every character entirely believable and Miss Marple on great form. Miss Marple, as seen here, is not as nature intended. On ITV, she's even "Marple" in the title! Disrespectful!
This attempts to get through too much in too little time. Miss Hinchcliffe and Miss Murgatroyd, as they are in the book (and the BBC Hickson Version) are indeed a lesbian couple. There's no need for kissing and holding hands, and comments about Miss Hinchcliffe "assuming a manly stance". This film really doesn't do subtlety. Elaine Paige is far too young to be Miss Bunner. Miss Marple's own sexual history is one step too far into sordidness. Geraldine McEwan is very good as a "version" of Miss Marple, but she can only be as good as her material. The material here is wasted. Zoe Wanamaker is as reliable as ever. (Ursula Howells was magnificent as Miss Blacklock in the Hickson Version).
Mitzi The Cook is as aggravating here as she was in the book. The Hickson Version diverges from the original text quite severely, by making Mitzi a "proper" character, and a Holocaust Survivor, not just a "comedy foreigner". In amongst all the other aggravations, she fits in perfectly.
The best of a bad bunch.