I saw the new Miss Marple last night. The story was "A Pocket Full of Rye". I thought it was pretty well done. Of course Miss Marple didn't really look like Miss Marple, but then they never do. At least once you have seen your first one. And sometimes not then. But the story seemed to stick very closely to the original book, as far as I can recall. I haven't read it for a while, so I guess I will have to go reread it now.
>I saw the new Miss Marple last night. The story was "A Pocket Full of >Rye". > I thought it was pretty well done. Of course Miss Marple didn't really > look like Miss Marple, but then they never do. At least once you have > seen your first one. And sometimes not then. But the story seemed to > stick very closely to the original book, as far as I can recall. I > haven't read it for a while, so I guess I will have to go reread it now.
> Bill
I'm so glad someone brought this subject up. I missed the ending last night and it's been so long since I've read the book I don't recall whodunit. And what did the blackbirds mean? Something regarding the Blackbird Mine, I'm guessing. Could some one fill me in? Oh, please use spoiler space! Thanks in advance, Lorraine Gelly
BillGill <billne...@cox.net> wrote: >I saw the new Miss Marple last night. The story was "A Pocket Full of Rye". >I thought it was pretty well done. Of course Miss Marple didn't really >look like Miss Marple, but then they never do. At least once you have >seen your first one. And sometimes not then.
Welllllll.... the first Marple I saw was Angela Lansbury in the 1980 production of _The Mirror Crack'd._ And she was very good, but a little more ... vigorous than I'd have expected in Miss Marple. The next one I saw was Joan Hickson, who I thought was spot-on. I have never had the misfortune of seeing any of the Margaret Rutherford films, which I understand can be described as "lots of fun, but not anything like Marple."
The next lady ... (searches IMDB for name) ... Geraldine McEwan was, to my mind, not nearly as good. I haven't seen any of the ones with Julia McKenzie at all.
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Lorraine Gelly wrote: > I'm so glad someone brought this subject up. I missed the ending last night > and it's been so long since I've read the book I don't recall whodunit. And > what did the blackbirds mean? Something regarding the Blackbird Mine, I'm > guessing. Could some one fill me in? Oh, please use spoiler space! > Thanks in advance, > Lorraine Gelly
Spoiler space:
For the quicie answer: Lance did it.
He met Gladys at here job at the resort and made up to her. He was using a false name and she fell in love with him. He inveigled her into putting the taxine into Fortescues marmalade thinking it was something else for quite another purpose. His main purpose was to get his hands on the Blackbird Mine, where a uranium deposit had been found. The blackbirds from earlier were put there by Percival's wife who was the daughter of the man who was Fortescues partner in the Blackbird. He died under mysterious circumstances, and his wife raised her daughter to take revenge on Fortescue. But the daughter found a better revenge than killing him.
BillGill wrote: > I saw the new Miss Marple last night. The story was "A Pocket Full of > Rye". > I thought it was pretty well done. Of course Miss Marple didn't really > look like Miss Marple, but then they never do. At least once you have > seen your first one. And sometimes not then. But the story seemed to > stick very closely to the original book, as far as I can recall. I > haven't read it for a while, so I guess I will have to go reread it now.
> Bill
I love the names in that one:
Rex Lancelot Percival Elaine (who in legend was unhappily in love with Lancelot)
And the cook is Mrs. Crump!!
-- Francis A. Miniter
Oscuramente libros, laminas, llaves siguen mi suerte.
Dorothy J Heydt wrote: > In article <cHm4m.32220$S16.14...@newsfe23.iad>, > BillGill <billne...@cox.net> wrote: >> I saw the new Miss Marple last night. The story was "A Pocket Full of Rye". >> I thought it was pretty well done. Of course Miss Marple didn't really >> look like Miss Marple, but then they never do. At least once you have >> seen your first one. And sometimes not then.
> Welllllll.... the first Marple I saw was Angela Lansbury in > the 1980 production of _The Mirror Crack'd._ And she was > very good, but a little more ... vigorous than I'd have > expected in Miss Marple. The next one I saw was Joan > Hickson, who I thought was spot-on. I have never had the > misfortune of seeing any of the Margaret Rutherford films, > which I understand can be described as "lots of fun, but not > anything like Marple."
> The next lady ... (searches IMDB for name) ... Geraldine > McEwan was, to my mind, not nearly as good. I haven't seen > any of the ones with Julia McKenzie at all.
> Dorothy J. Heydt > Vallejo, California > djheydt at hotmail dot com > Should you wish to email me, you'd better use the hotmail edress. > Kithrup is getting too damn much spam, even with the sysop's filters.
I believe that Joan Hickson was probably the most believable looking.
As far as the Margaret Rutherford films are concerned they definitely weren't Miss Marple films. At least not Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. But they were fun. You might want to try them some day.
Of course I recall that when they did the Brother Cadfael mysteries by Ellis Peters the Brother Cadfael they chose looked nothing like the Brother Cadfael in the books.
BillGill <billne...@cox.net> wrote: >Dorothy J Heydt wrote: >> In article <cHm4m.32220$S16.14...@newsfe23.iad>, >> BillGill <billne...@cox.net> wrote: >>> I saw the new Miss Marple last night. The story was "A Pocket >Full of Rye". >>> I thought it was pretty well done. Of course Miss Marple didn't really >>> look like Miss Marple, but then they never do. At least once you have >>> seen your first one. And sometimes not then.
>> Welllllll.... the first Marple I saw was Angela Lansbury in >> the 1980 production of _The Mirror Crack'd._ And she was >> very good, but a little more ... vigorous than I'd have >> expected in Miss Marple. The next one I saw was Joan >> Hickson, who I thought was spot-on. I have never had the >> misfortune of seeing any of the Margaret Rutherford films, >> which I understand can be described as "lots of fun, but not >> anything like Marple."
>> The next lady ... (searches IMDB for name) ... Geraldine >> McEwan was, to my mind, not nearly as good. I haven't seen >> any of the ones with Julia McKenzie at all.
>I believe that Joan Hickson was probably the most believable looking.
>As far as the Margaret Rutherford films are concerned they definitely >weren't Miss Marple films. At least not Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. >But they were fun. You might want to try them some day.
>Of course I recall that when they did the Brother Cadfael mysteries >by Ellis Peters the Brother Cadfael they chose looked nothing like >the Brother Cadfael in the books.
Yeah, well, the real Brother Cadfael was supposed to be tubby and to walk with a rolling gait like a sailor. I don't know how many top-flight actors they've got, even in Britain, with those characteristics.
(Hmmmmm... though Peter Ustinov would've done nicely, and he didn't die till 2004. Maybe he was busy.)
The thing that bothered me about the BC series was that the Abbey of Sts. Peter and Paul, with a population of several hundred, was represented by about a dozen guys standing in two lines singing the Office. Pitiful. But, of course, they couldn't have afforded to pay two hundred extras and spend the time and effort teaching them to sing Gregorian chant -- not even in the Czech Republic or Hungary or wherever it was they filmed it. They should simply have *avoided* any scene where the entire community was assembled.
Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at hotmail dot com Should you wish to email me, you'd better use the hotmail edress. Kithrup is getting too damn much spam, even with the sysop's filters.
> Welllllll.... the first Marple I saw was Angela Lansbury in > the 1980 production of _The Mirror Crack'd._ And she was > very good, but a little more ... vigorous than I'd have > expected in Miss Marple. The next one I saw was Joan > Hickson, who I thought was spot-on. I have never had the > misfortune of seeing any of the Margaret Rutherford films, > which I understand can be described as "lots of fun, but not > anything like Marple."
> Dorothy J. Heydt
Good way of describing them I think. I'm not crazy about Christie or eccentric spinster detectives in general but I do like Margaret Rutherford so I enjoyed them. (I understand Christie liked them also.)
>> Welllllll.... the first Marple I saw was Angela Lansbury in >> the 1980 production of _The Mirror Crack'd._ And she was >> very good, but a little more ... vigorous than I'd have >> expected in Miss Marple. The next one I saw was Joan >> Hickson, who I thought was spot-on. I have never had the >> misfortune of seeing any of the Margaret Rutherford films, >> which I understand can be described as "lots of fun, but not >> anything like Marple."
>> Dorothy J. Heydt
>Good way of describing them I think. I'm not crazy about Christie or >eccentric spinster detectives in general but I do like Margaret >Rutherford so I enjoyed them. (I understand Christie liked them >also.)
Christie's Miss Marple, as I understand it, was taken from life: her mother's aunt who had brought her up, and was known as "Auntie-Grannie." She was a very old lady who was cynical and suspicious of people -- not much like Miss Marple so far -- and always had the worst possible interpretation of everything anyone did, including comparing it to some previous malefaction someone else had done in the past. Hence, Miss Marple's constant prediction of who the murderer must have been or what he was going to do next, based on her memory of what the gardener or the tailor's wife or the butcher's boy had done forty years ago.
Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at hotmail dot com Should you wish to email me, you'd better use the hotmail edress. Kithrup is getting too damn much spam, even with the sysop's filters.
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