A Caribbean Mystery

TV Movie
19831983
Not RatedNot Rated
1h 32min

While Miss Marple is on vacation in a luxurious Caribbean resort, a fellow guest confides he has evidence that another resident of the hotel is an unscrupulous serial murderer but is poisone... Read allWhile Miss Marple is on vacation in a luxurious Caribbean resort, a fellow guest confides he has evidence that another resident of the hotel is an unscrupulous serial murderer but is poisoned before he can reveal his identity to her.While Miss Marple is on vacation in a luxurious Caribbean resort, a fellow guest confides he has evidence that another resident of the hotel is an unscrupulous serial murderer but is poisoned before he can reveal his identity to her.

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Director
- Robert Michael Lewis
Writers
- Agatha Christie(based on the novel by)
- Sue Grafton(teleplay by)
- Steve Humphrey(teleplay by)
Stars

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Maurice Evans and Helen Hayes in A Caribbean Mystery (1983)

Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Tony Curtis, Faye Dunaway, Peter Ustinov, and Helen Hayes in Murder Is Easy (1982)

Season Hubley, Lynne Moody, and Jameson Parker in A Caribbean Mystery (1983)

Season Hubley and Jameson Parker in A Caribbean Mystery (1983)

Director
- Robert Michael Lewis
Writers
- Agatha Christie(based on the novel by)
- Sue Grafton(teleplay by)
- Steve Humphrey(teleplay by)
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Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort they're staying at is a Bluebeard-type wife murderer. Unfortunately, the Major succumbs to an apparently accidental overdose of alcohol and blood pressure medication before revealing the killer's identity. When it's discovered that the medicine belonged to another guest and the revealing photograph the Major was carrying is missing, Miss Marple realizes that the serial killer has struck again and more murders will follow. —duke1029

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Certificate
- Not Rated
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Trivia
This was Maurice Evans' final acting role before his death on March 12, 1989 at the age of 87.

Goofs
When Marple opens a book on psychiatry, we see that the book was taken in the library five times from 1941 to 1951. However, To Define True Madness first came out in 1953 (by Sidgwick and Jackson), and the cover shown before belongs to the revised (Penguin Books) edition in 1955. In the Agatha Christie's work (Chapter 21) neither the title of the book nor the library insert is mentioned.

Quotes
[first lines]
Tim Kendall: Miss. Marple? Hi. How do you do? I'm Tim Kendall. Your bungalow is nearly ready.
Miss Jane Marple: Oh. Thank you.

Connections
Followed by Murder with Mirrors (1985)

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7/10

An intriguing (if a bit leisurely) puzzler

Helen Hayes played Miss Marple, Agatha Christie's second most famous sleuth (after Hercule Poirot, of course), only two times. Although the actress is American and the character is English, Hayes is quite delightful in the role - witty, humane and still youthful in spirit. The supporting cast of "A Caribbean Mystery" doesn't contain any big names, but they all play their parts adequately; if anyone stands out, it's Season Hubley as Molly. The locations are pleasant (if Daphne's place in "Evil Under The Sun" was completely booked, I wouldn't mind spending my holidays in this hotel instead), and the story fulfills the basic demands of the mystery genre: it offers plenty of suspects and red herrings, and you won't know who the killer is until the moments he or she is revealed (unless you've read the book, of course). The revelation part is a bit rushed (as it gets squeezed into the last 5 minutes), and the film is at times a bit too leisurely paced. Within its limitations, though, this is good entertainment for fans of genre. (***)

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