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Marple: The Body in the Library (2004) (TV)

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Overview

Director:
Andy Wilson
Writers:
Agatha Christie (novel)
Kevin Elyot (screenplay)
Release Date:
12 December 2004 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama | Mystery more
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Awards:
Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 2 nominations more
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Character development more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)
Geraldine McEwan ... Miss Jane Marple
Ian Richardson ... Conway Jefferson
Tara Fitzgerald ... Adelaide Jefferson
Jamie Theakston ... Mark Gaskell
Giles Oldershaw ... Edwards
Florence Hoath ... Pamela Reeves

Joanna Lumley ... Dolly Bantry
James Fox ... Colonel Arthur Bantry
Simon Callow ... Colonel Terence Melchett

Ben Miller ... Basil Blake
Emma Cooke ... Dinah Lee
Robin Soans ... Dr. Haydock
Bruce Mackinnon ... Scamper (as Bruce MacKinnon)

Jack Davenport ... Superintendent Harper
Mary Stockley ... Josie Turner
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Agatha Christie's Marple (UK)
Agatha Christie's Marple: The Body in the Library (UK) (complete title)
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Runtime:
94 min
Country:
UK | USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Certification:
Australia:M | UK:PG
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Company:
Chorion more

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Trivia:
The producers of this series of Miss Marple TV dramas have set her home village of St Mary Mead in Oxfordshire. From clues given in the Agatha Christie books, if a real county was guessed at, Hampshire would be the likely location for St Mary Mead. more
Quotes:
Basil Blake: [introducing his wife to Colonel Melchett] Dinah Lee, minor actress, major slut! more
Movie Connections:
Version of The Body in the Library (1984) (TV) more

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Character development, 18 October 2007
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Author: glenza44 from United States

seems totally unimportant to the makers of the latest Marple series (Geraldine McEwan). There are all kinds of camera angles and other modernizations but, frankly, I miss the slightly dowdy, underplayed subtlety of the Joan Hickson series. I miss recurring characters like Inspector Slack -- and the somewhat grungy, down-at-heel look of postwar 1950's England that characterized the earlier series and that I know for a fact is more authentic. I think McEwan is a fine actress but she seems almost too young and sprightly at times...puckish even.

I've watched several of these episodes. At first, I was only going to watch episodes of stories I had not seen (Toward Zero, Ordeal By Innocence, etc) because they were not part of the Hickson series -- but I just watched At Bertram's Hotel and am totally and completely confused by the re-write. I think I'll skip Nemesis -- it's one of my very favorite Hickson episodes -- and Sleeping Murder, ditto.

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