La señorita Marple de Agatha Christie: Un puñado de centeno
Título original: Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
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Cuando se encuentra un puñado de grano en el bolsillo de un hombre de negocios asesinado, Miss Marple busca a un asesino con afición por las canciones infantiles.Cuando se encuentra un puñado de grano en el bolsillo de un hombre de negocios asesinado, Miss Marple busca a un asesino con afición por las canciones infantiles.Cuando se encuentra un puñado de grano en el bolsillo de un hombre de negocios asesinado, Miss Marple busca a un asesino con afición por las canciones infantiles.
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I absolutely love the Joan Hickson Miss Marple mysteries. They are clever and well made, and Joan Hickson is for me the definitive Miss Marple. A Pocket Full of Rye is a wonderful adaptation, and my second favourite of the Miss Marple adaptations after A Murder is Announced. The photography, scenery and costumes are truly lovely, and the music is superb. The script is often thought-provoking and the story is faithful, well paced and clever. My only minor criticism is that they could have developed Gladys a little more, but this is very minor. The acting across the board is of high calibre, Joan Hickson coming of best being absolutely terrific as Miss Marple. Overall, wonderful and one of my favourites. 10/10 Bethany Cox
JOAN HICKSON was an excellent Jane Marple and this is definitely one of the better TV works of Agatha Christie's A POCKET FULL OF RYE. The clever plotting uses a nursery rhyme (one of Christie's favorite ways of linking a complex set of clues to a murder), and gives a nice assortment of suspicious characters a chance to make the perfect sort of red herrings.
The mystery gets underway as soon as Rex Fortescue is killed. He's a rich, nasty old man who has a fortune tied to some nasty business in his past, and enough enemies to make everyone a likely suspect. Crisply acted and played in elegant British fashion by an assortment of reliable British supporting players, it keeps you interested in solving the crime along with the baffled inspector, who is no match for Miss Marple.
Hickson is perfectly cast as the wise old lady and makes the character seem as though Christie had her in mind for the role.
The mystery gets underway as soon as Rex Fortescue is killed. He's a rich, nasty old man who has a fortune tied to some nasty business in his past, and enough enemies to make everyone a likely suspect. Crisply acted and played in elegant British fashion by an assortment of reliable British supporting players, it keeps you interested in solving the crime along with the baffled inspector, who is no match for Miss Marple.
Hickson is perfectly cast as the wise old lady and makes the character seem as though Christie had her in mind for the role.
Rex Fortescue, a wealthy businessman, collapses and dies in his office. He was poisoned. In his pocket are rye seeds.
It turns out Rex wasn't very well liked. He has a very young, pretty wife who fools around with a tennis pro. She, too, is found dead.
Gladys, a clumsy maid in the household, was actually trained by Miss Marple. Very distressed about the murders, she asks Marple for help. But it's too late - Gladys herself is found murdered.
The murders follow the nursery rhyme - Sing a Song of Sixpence: The queen was in the parlor, the maid was in the garden - who played pranks on Rex using blackbirds, and who is committing the murders?
Intriguing story with karma taking over at the end as Miss Marple experiences this rather unpleasant family. The actress Fabia Drake has some great, biting lines.
I very much like the atmosphere and characterizations found in these stories. I admit I always pictured Miss Marple a little softer, a more sweet old lady whose knowledge is a surprise, but I do like Joan Hickson. She comes off as very shrewd.
The good cast includes a very young Annette Badland, Peter Davison, and the aforementioned Drake.
It turns out Rex wasn't very well liked. He has a very young, pretty wife who fools around with a tennis pro. She, too, is found dead.
Gladys, a clumsy maid in the household, was actually trained by Miss Marple. Very distressed about the murders, she asks Marple for help. But it's too late - Gladys herself is found murdered.
The murders follow the nursery rhyme - Sing a Song of Sixpence: The queen was in the parlor, the maid was in the garden - who played pranks on Rex using blackbirds, and who is committing the murders?
Intriguing story with karma taking over at the end as Miss Marple experiences this rather unpleasant family. The actress Fabia Drake has some great, biting lines.
I very much like the atmosphere and characterizations found in these stories. I admit I always pictured Miss Marple a little softer, a more sweet old lady whose knowledge is a surprise, but I do like Joan Hickson. She comes off as very shrewd.
The good cast includes a very young Annette Badland, Peter Davison, and the aforementioned Drake.
At first, the first murder in "A Pocketful of Rye" seems pretty straight forward. A rich man dies at work and it seems someone gave him poison 2-3* hours earlier. So, you assume someone in his will is responsible. But his unfaithful wife isn't...as she is poisoned next. But when a maid is killed...well that seems to make no sense. Then Miss Marple realizes the way they died were related to the nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Six Pence". Who's possibly next and who is behind all this? And, why choose that or any nursery rhyme?
This is a most entertaining series...one that is well worth seeing. Well written and quite enjoyable.
*In most shows, a poisoned person dies within seconds of receiving the poison. I read up on this...and that never happens...even with cyanide. So, having the first person die hours after receiving the poison is actually very realistic as many poisons take hours to kill.
This is a most entertaining series...one that is well worth seeing. Well written and quite enjoyable.
*In most shows, a poisoned person dies within seconds of receiving the poison. I read up on this...and that never happens...even with cyanide. So, having the first person die hours after receiving the poison is actually very realistic as many poisons take hours to kill.
I liked this "Pocket Full of Rye" with Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. I have seen the one with Geraldine McEwen which I think is a great Miss Marple but the movies are put together different and I liked this one better.
One actor who I like is Peter Davison, at first I did not recognize him. Peter plays Lance son of the father that is rich and is murdered. This is a 1985 movie and Peter Davison plays in "The Last Detective" a series on British TV in which he is a detective and also plays in a series called "Campion".
As in most Agatha Christies stories there are a lot of knots to tie to find out who the killer or killer are. This is one of those movies.
I enjoyed it.
One actor who I like is Peter Davison, at first I did not recognize him. Peter plays Lance son of the father that is rich and is murdered. This is a 1985 movie and Peter Davison plays in "The Last Detective" a series on British TV in which he is a detective and also plays in a series called "Campion".
As in most Agatha Christies stories there are a lot of knots to tie to find out who the killer or killer are. This is one of those movies.
I enjoyed it.
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- CuriosidadesThe back page of the newspaper read by Miss Marple has a headline stating "Strathspey 25-1 Winner of the Cesarewitch." The Cesarewitch is a British "flat" (no jumps) race for thoroughbreds, run in Newmarket, which the horse Strathspey did indeed win, in 1949.
- PifiasJust after Lance's car is spotted by the police, he drives past a modern (post-1964) speed limit sign.
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Miss Jane Marple: All businessmen are the victims of greed, some way to another, I fear.
- ConexionesFeatured in Arena: Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait (1990)
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