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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Not buying much, in fact nothing at all, in the way of films these days, but the interest in this one was that it was filmed in the local area (in Kent), and I remember it created quite a stir back when Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson were staying at the still unchanged and venerable old Leicester Arms in Penshurst. This in itself appropriately reflected one of the themes of the film and book, that of locals being thrilled by exotic movie folk in their midst.
The film is set ten years before the novel, and the countryside and locations are indeed used to great advantage - the Director has a real knack of making the people in the backgrounds look and move like living spectres from the 1950s, too.
The starry cast is, to say the least, variable in performance, but Edward Fox is outstanding as the breezy and pleasant yet clever and calculating Inspector. His character should definitely have been given his own spin off. Elizabeth Taylor is amusingly the exact physical type that Agatha Christie specifically describes film star Marina Gregg as NOT being.
That really doesn't matter though, as the film is quite rightly intended to be a cosy period piece of the type that can take peoples' minds off their problems, and so is necessarily a different creature from the book.
I would strongly suggest that people read the book before the film though. It isn't just that it is an excellent mystery. Set in the early sixties, it is also a commentary on how the new era encroaches on village life as Miss Marples has always known it, it is a meditation on the aging process, it has a prescient sixties photographer (a girl pre-Hemmings) and finally a real tragic and literary dimension.
This DVD is definitely for a Sunday afternoon by the fire with chocolates and sherry, though, and all the better for it.
The film is set ten years before the novel, and the countryside and locations are indeed used to great advantage - the Director has a real knack of making the people in the backgrounds look and move like living spectres from the 1950s, too.
The starry cast is, to say the least, variable in performance, but Edward Fox is outstanding as the breezy and pleasant yet clever and calculating Inspector. His character should definitely have been given his own spin off. Elizabeth Taylor is amusingly the exact physical type that Agatha Christie specifically describes film star Marina Gregg as NOT being.
That really doesn't matter though, as the film is quite rightly intended to be a cosy period piece of the type that can take peoples' minds off their problems, and so is necessarily a different creature from the book.
I would strongly suggest that people read the book before the film though. It isn't just that it is an excellent mystery. Set in the early sixties, it is also a commentary on how the new era encroaches on village life as Miss Marples has always known it, it is a meditation on the aging process, it has a prescient sixties photographer (a girl pre-Hemmings) and finally a real tragic and literary dimension.
This DVD is definitely for a Sunday afternoon by the fire with chocolates and sherry, though, and all the better for it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I purchased this dvd a couple of days ago and watched it immediately. I think the choice of the actors and actresses are excellent, however, I feel Angela Lansbury a bit awkward in the role of Miss Marple. The character of Salome Otterbourne in Death on the Nile suits her much better.
Anyway, the film is great, it gives back a lot from the traditional English countryside, although it does not put emphasis on the Development of St Mary Mead, which is a crucial point in the novel. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to be entertained for some hours and definitely a must for Christie fans.
Anyway, the film is great, it gives back a lot from the traditional English countryside, although it does not put emphasis on the Development of St Mary Mead, which is a crucial point in the novel. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to be entertained for some hours and definitely a must for Christie fans.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The video failed to provide subtitles. The words were difficult to follow with the fast speech of many of the female performers. Geraldine Chaplin being the worst. There are many who have difficulty hearing conversations and Amazon should indicate that subtitles were not provided.
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