Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
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The Perfect Vacation...Sunshine, Rest, and Murder!!!
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I watched this movie without reading the 1964 Dame Agatha Christie novel that it was based on. (Christie wrote twelve full-length Miss Marple murder mysteries.) I'm glad I did this! Why? Because it forced me to really watch the movie in order to try and deduce who the murderer was.
The movie begins with Miss Marple (the late Joan Hickson) at a hotel resort on Barbados Island located in the Caribbean Sea which is bounded on one side by the West Indies. (The West Indies is a large group of islands located between North America and South America. The Barbados is actually a country on the easternmost island of the West Indies.) At the hotel she meets a retired major who tells her of his past adventures. One of the last things he says to Miss Marple is:
"Like to see the picture of a killer?"
As the major is about to hand the picture to the senior super sleuth, he unexpectedly sees the murderer at the island hotel. Miss Marple never sees the picture or sees who the major was looking at. The next day the major turns up dead. The death is suspected of being a murder and Inspector Weston (Joe Mydell) officially investigates and Miss Marple unofficially investigates. Eventually, two more deaths and an attempted suicide occur.
Who are the people at this island hotel? They are as follows:
(1) Retired Major Palgrave (Frank Middlemass)
(2) Retired tycoon Jason Rafiel (Donald Pleasence)
(3) Hotel owner Tim Kendall (Adrian Lukis)
(4) Tim's wife, Molly (Sophie Ward)
(5) The tycoon's nurse, Esther Walters (Barbara Barnes)
(6) Flirt Lucky Dyson (Sue Lloyd)
(7) Lucky's husband, Greg (Robert Swan)
(8) Housewife Evelyn Hillington (Sheila Ruskin)
(9) Evelyn's husband, Edward (Michael Feast)
(10) Dr. Graham (T.P. McKenna)
(11) Hotel Maid Victoria (Valerie Buchanan)
(12) The tycoon's aid Jackson (Stephen Bent)
There is brief mention of the Greek goddess "Nemesis" in this movie. Nemesis is the title of a popular Miss Marple novel (and was made into a movie starring Joan Hickson). The character Jason Rafiel appears again in this novel.
Joan Hickson (whom Agatha Christie herself wanted to play Miss Marple) captures the essence of the heroine super sleuth in her performance. (Hickson was 83 years old in this movie!) Another good performance to look for is Donald Pleasence as the grumpy tycoon.
A feature of this movie is that it was filmed on location in Barbados, West Indies. Thus, the cinematography is breath-taking.
Finally, there is an earlier Americanized version of this movie starring Helen Hayes as Miss Marple. This movie was quite well done but I felt that it was not quite as good as this British version.
In conclusion, this is a fun movie even if you have read the novel it's based on!!
(1989; 100 min; British drama; made for TV; full screen)
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