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Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye *** (1985, Joan Hickson, Timothy West, Fabia Drake) – Classic Movie Review 9,622

The 1985 TV movie Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye again stars Joan Hickson, who takes on her fourth case as the BBC’s detective Miss Marple, based on the novel by Agatha Christie.  Director Guy […]

Apr, 09

Miss Marple:  A Murder Is Announced **** (1985, Joan Hickson, Ursula Howells, Samantha Bond, Sylvia Syms, Joan Sims) – Classic Movie Review 9,616

The when and where of a murder are announced in the Chipping Cleghorn Gazette. The 1985 three-episode TV mini-series A Murder Is Announced stars the redoubtable Joan Hickson in her third case as the BBC’s […]

Apr, 08

Miss Marple: The Body in the Library **** (1984, Joan Hickson, Gwen Watford, Moray Watson, Valentine Dyall, Jess Conrad) – Classic Movie Review 9607

Silvio Narizzano’s 1984 three-episode TV mini-series Miss Marple: The Body in the Library stars Joan Hickson, who takes on her first case as the BBC’s Miss Marple in a UK TV series that filmed all […]

Apr, 06

The Mirror Crack’d *** (1980, Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson, Edward Fox, Charles Gray, Wendy Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 1300

Thanks to her wonderfully camp and engaging appearance as a drunken romantic writer in Death on the Nile, Angela Lansbury was promoted to the plum star role of Agatha Christie’s nosy spinster sleuth Miss Jane […]

Jun, 07

Murder Most Foul *** (1964, Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell, Dennis Price, Terry Scott) – Classic Movie Review 866

The third Margaret Rutherford Miss Jane Marple movie Murder Most Foul (1964) sees the spinster sleuth as the only jury member refusing to accept her co-jurors’ guilty verdict in the trial of a lodger accused […]

Mar, 05

Murder at the Gallop **** (1963, Margaret Rutherford, Stringer Davis, Robert Morley, Flora Robson, Finlay Currie, Charles Tingwell) – Classic Movie Review 865

Hooray for Margaret Rutherford’s second, exceedingly satisfying big-screen mystery entertainment as Dame Agatha Christie’s sleuth Miss Marple, the 1963 comedy crime thriller Murder at the Gallop. Old Lady Crime snoops to conquer when the rich […]

Mar, 05

Murder, She Said **** (1961, Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Charles Tingwell, Muriel Pavlow) – Classic Movie Review 867

Director George Pollock’s 1961 comedy murder mystery thriller Murder, She Said is the first and best of Margaret Rutherford’s four star movie appearances as Agatha Christie’s spinster sleuth. Freely based on Christie’s famous 1957 novel 4.50 […]

Mar, 05

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