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Title: Agatha Christie's Marple (17 Apr 2005)
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| Episode cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Geraldine McEwan | ... | Miss Marple | |
| Ian Richardson | ... | Conway Jefferson | |
| Tara Fitzgerald | ... | Adelaide Jefferson | |
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Jamie Theakston | ... | Mark Gaskell |
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Giles Oldershaw | ... | Edwards |
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Florence Hoath | ... | Pamela Reeves |
| Joanna Lumley | ... | Dolly Bantry | |
| James Fox | ... | Colonel Arthur Bantry | |
| Simon Callow | ... | Colonel 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 | |
A young woman's corpse is dumped in the library of Gossington Hall, home of Jane Marple's friend Dolly Bantry and her husband Arthur. Pompous Chief Constable Melchett suspects a connection with Basil Blake, an arty young man who lives locally but Blake is dismissive when Melchett visits him. Then Superintendent Harper rings from the coastal town of Danemouth. Ruby Keane, a young girl employed as a dancer at the Majestic Hotel there, has gone missing, and her cousin Josie Turner identifies the corpse as Ruby's. Ruby is in favour with millionaire Conway Jefferson, whose own son and daughter were killed in a wartime air raid, and he wants to adopt her. His son-in-law Mark Gaskell, and daughter-in-law Adelaide react variously to the news. Miss Marple is convinced that the solution to Ruby's murder may be found at the hotel and she and Dolly book into a suite to investigate. There is no shortage of suspects, not only family members but the handsome Raymond Starr, another of the hotel's ... Written by don @ minifie-1
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ITV are brave to redo Miss Marple when memories (and DVDs and reruns) of the Joan Hickson films are still pretty fresh. They have had the courage to do it differently -- as a kind of comic book version in lurid tones. This was a risky idea and I'm not sure it really comes off.
Geraldine McEwan is charming, quirky and fey in the role, but what is the role? Not Miss Marple as Agatha Christie intended, that's for sure. Miss Marple was never an emancipated woman. I have to admit, though, that Ms. McEwan's performance shows up the revered Joan Hickson portrayal as essentially dull and flat.
The worst thing, however, is the overacting. Simon Callow is one of Britain's foremost actors, so why this appalling performance? It's beyond caricature. And how did Jack Davenport get to play a superintendent of police (with a street trader accent) at the age of not much more than 30? Agatha Christie needs to be played straight -- or perhaps for laughs, as the old Margaret Rutherford films did it -- but this version does neither. Hmm.