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Agatha Christie Marple: The Sittaford Mystery (2006) (TV)
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30 April 2006 (USA)
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The death of the presumptive future PM is predicted during a séance in a snowbound country hotel and, not surprisingly, he is found stabbed to death the next morning. full summary | add synopsis
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Did anyone in the production team read the book?
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Geraldine McEwan | ... | Miss Jane Marple | |
| Michael Brandon | ... | Martin Zimmerman | |
| Laurence Fox | ... | James Pearson | |
| Robert Hardy | ... | Winston Churchill | |
| Patricia Hodge | ... | Mrs. Evadne Willett | |
| Paul Kaye | ... | Dr. Ambrose Burt | |
| Matthew Kelly | ... | Donald Garfield / Smith-Jones | |
| Jeffery Kissoon | ... | Ahmed Ghali | |
| Carey Mulligan | ... | Violet Willett | |
| James Murray | ... | Charles Burnaby | |
| Mel Smith | ... | John Enderby | |
| Zoe Telford | ... | Emily Trefusis | |
| Rita Tushingham | ... | Miss Elizabeth Percehouse | |
| James Wilby | ... | Stanley Kirkwood | |
| Timothy Dalton | ... | Clive Trevelyan |
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Agatha Christie - Marple: The Sittaford Mystery (Australia) (DVD title)
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Finland:93 min | USA:100 min
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Crew or equipment visible: In the scene where Miss Marple explains the murder's solution, just after 'Charles' falls into the ground, the feet of a crew member can be seen at the left bottom of the screen.
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Emily Trefusis:
If I were the nervous sort, I'd say there's evil in this house.
Miss Jane Marple: The house is bricks and mortar. If there's evil, it's in somebody's heart.
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Miss Jane Marple: The house is bricks and mortar. If there's evil, it's in somebody's heart.
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Just who was it who dreamt up this dire drivel, and then had to gall to say it was based on Agatha Christie's novel "The Sittaford Mystery"? Someone should sit down and have serious rethink.
Notwithstanding the silly and superfluous inclusion of Jane Marple, this "adaptation" had no resemblance at all to Dame Agatha's mystery. The characters were mostly different, the plot was different, the motive was different, the murder was different, and the culprit was different. In fact virtually the only non-differences in it, were the blizzard and the seance. It took about 50 minutes of tedious atmospheric build-up before the opening scene of the original story was unveiled, and even that was different. I had to look at the TV magazine to assure myself it was "The Sittaford Mystery" I was actually watching. Did anybody in the production team bother to read the book? Long may this series of "Marple" be eventually buried and forgotten, and this particular episode must be buried deepest of all. Leaving aside for a moment that it was supposed to be an Agatha Christie mystery, the production was boringly slow, had a terrible and garbled script, which was indifferently, and in parts even badly acted. In short it was just an awful jumbled mess. I really can't find the words to express how bad it was.
I just cannot understand the reasoning behind the appalling butchery of Dame Agatha's plots. It's unbelievable! "Sleeping Murder" was carnage, but this was complete annihilation. There are many novelists of the genre whose works are yet untouched by TV, film or radio, and if new mysteries are needed, there are also many new writers out there to satisfy requirements, rather than completely destroying the works of the best in the art.
I'd like to know the answer to one question...what was the necessity of including Robert Hardy's cameo of Churchill? I just saw no point to it. But then for that matter, I saw no point to the whole programme! I can imagine Dame Agatha waiting at the Pearly Gates with law-suits in hand, for this was an insult, not only to her name, but to her genius.
I can only conclude by saying, that as a murder mystery in it's own right, it was murder to watch, and a mystery why it was made. One wonders what other "gems" of horrendous nonsense are yet to appear in this series. If you've any sense you'll give this particular offering of "The Sittaford Mystery" a very wide berth.