The Blue Geranium
- Episode aired Jun 27, 2010
- TV-PG
- 1h 27m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
1.2K
YOUR RATING
A superstitious woman dies of apparent fright after her fate is foretold by a medium, but Miss Marple is convinced of foul play.A superstitious woman dies of apparent fright after her fate is foretold by a medium, but Miss Marple is convinced of foul play.A superstitious woman dies of apparent fright after her fate is foretold by a medium, but Miss Marple is convinced of foul play.
Photos
Kevin McNally
- Detective Somerset
- (as Kevin R. McNally)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe Mapledurham Watermill, situated on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, is used as a background in a few scenes and as the subject of one of Hazel's paintings. This mill was also notably used on the cover of Black Sabbath's 1970 self-titled debut album.
- GoofsWhen George and Lewis are outside arguing about George always supporting Lewis, a long shot shows a car pull up from the left. When the camera cuts back to George, the car is in the background facing the other direction. It then returns to its original position in the next shot.
- Quotes
Miss Marple: You can learn so much if you are lucky to see the body.
Featured review
Harcourt is the best!!!!
A frightfully good adaptation of a Marple short story,uncannily creepy and faithful to the source,despite the very huge padding.Harcourt is becoming the better writer of the series,and his match of wits with Kevin Elyot is more interesting than a football cup. Personally,I consider this Geranium and A Murder is Announced the two better episodes of the whole series,but Geranium is a more successful task,and a more difficult one,because it was based on a very short tale,a very surprising and pleasant one,but with a very stark material for a quite longish TV movie.It's the first time that the padding of a short story has not destroyed completely the original tale:even TR Bowen failed with the absolutely abominable Bachelor in the Jeremy Brett series.Certainly ITV is winning the best laurels with creeper,darker and psychological stories.They simply don't have the lighter,funnier string.But when they are dark and grim and spooky they are really great (and it's very promising for Pale Horse,pity it's not an Harcourt or an Elyot!). The actors were simply perfect. Julia McKenzie is now perfectly confident in Marple's sensible shoes:if they give to her a good script,like this one or Mirror Crack'd or They Do It With Mirrors she's a real stunner.The fault in past episodes was not hers,and we must put the blame absolutely on the unfortunate, unpleasant and unfaithful plots. Sharon Small is pathetic but never ludicrous in her role of a neurotic ,bedridden woman.Toby Stephens is very possibly now the best English leading actor,and he would have been perfect in an Hitchcock movie.Claudie Blakley shines in her role of Phillipa,the overanxious sister of the deceased,Ms.Rushbrook is a very good Christiean nurse ,and she could have been tending Laura Welman in Sad Cypress.Jason Durr is a wondrous loony in the Edgar Lawson's vein.David Calder and Donald Sinden,two old battle-horses are winning their battle for the umpteenth time.And the village,with its eerie Seven Sins fresco is a malignant marvel of murderous merriment.This episode and the two Mirrors are the perfect models for a perfect Marple episode.This is the correct garden path for a long and highly pleasant series.
helpful•249
- igorlongo
- Jul 12, 2010
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Blekitne geranium
- Filming locations
- Library, Hatfield House, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK(gentlemen's club's reading room)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
- Color
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content