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Agatha Christie (novel)
T.R. Bowen (screenplay)
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Release Date:
7 March 1985 (UK) more
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Wealthy business man Rex Fortescue collapses when he reaches his office. It is determined that he was poisoned... more | add synopsis
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Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye (UK) (series title)
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103 min | Brazil:90 min
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Timothy West plays Rex Fortescue in this version while his wife Prunella Scales would later play Miss Effie Ramsbottom in the ITV adaptation Marple: A Pocket Full of Rye (2008) (TV). more
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Stygian gloom, 1 December 2005
5/10
Author: (nicks40@gmail.com) from United Kingdom

Now available on a BBC DVD, this episode of Miss Marple is unfortunately plunged in complete darkness from beginning to end, making it at times quite difficult to see who is actually on screen. Maybe this is intended to add to the atmosphere of the house in which the action takes place, and indeed houses in mourning would have had their curtains drawn at the time, but need all the lights have been off as well?

Though a fairly faithful adaptation of the book, one of Agatha Christie's later thrillers, there is not a great deal of detection or thought process in the play and when presented with the killer, my reaction was simply 'oh'.

When you can see them, some nice early '50's details.

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