Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage

TV Movie
1986
1h 42m

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7.5/10

2.1K

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Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (1986)

Crime Drama Mystery

Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help from Miss Mar... Read allFaced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help from Miss Marple.Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help from Miss Marple.

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Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 2 nominations total

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Tara MacGowran in Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (1986)

Rosalie Crutchley in Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (1986)

Robert Lang in Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (1986)

Rachel Weaver in Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (1986)

Polly Adams in Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (1986)

Paul Eddington in Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (1986)

Norma West in Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (1986)

Michael Browning in Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (1986)

Joan Hickson in Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (1986)

Paul Eddington and James Hazeldine in Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (1986)

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Trivia
Based on the book that marks the debut of Miss Marple.

Goofs
"To everything there is a season" is from Ecclesiastes, not Proverbs.

Quotes
Detective Inspector Slack: I thought it was looking too good to be true. I shoulds known better! Soon as I saw that nice looking, gray-haired cobra sliding about, I shoulda known better
Detective Sergeant Lake: Hunh?
Detective Inspector Slack: The Marple woman sticks to this sort of business like chewing gum to the cat.

Connections
Featured in Arena: Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait (1990)

Soundtracks
The Entertainer
(uncredited)
Written by Scott Joplin
[Lettice plays on piano]

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Review

Featured review

8/10

Classic Christie

It is difficult to understand ITV's decision to remake the Miss Marple series, because in Joan Hickson we have the definitive interpretation of Agatha Christie's amateur sleuth. This particular story, Miss Marple's first fictional outing,dates from 1930, but the writer, T.R. Bowen has skilfully updated it to the 1950s. The script is witty and the cast is endowed with such acting stalwarts as Paul Eddington and Rosalie Crutchley. If the plot does not seem so original now it is because Christie's work was so often copied, and what must have seemed innovative in 1930 now appears to be hackneyed. All that said it is a story well told and worth a couple of hours of anyone's time.

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