Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (1986)

• Year: 1986
• Released: 25 Dec 1986
• Country: United Kingdom, United States, Australia
• Adwords: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award2 nominations total
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0170266/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/miss_marple_the_murder_at_the_vicarage
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: N/A
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
• Runtime: 102 min
• Writer: T.R. Bowen, Agatha Christie
• Director: Julian Amyes
• Cast: Joan Hickson, Paul Eddington, Cheryl Campbell
• Keywords: based on novel or book, detective,

7.4/10

Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage Storyline

When a despised magistrate is found shot to death in the library of the local vicarage, his wife and her lover, a portrait painter living on the church grounds, both confess to the crime. Miss Marple’s keen powers of observation clear both of them of the crime, but other suspects abound. Included are the murdered man’s daughter, who posed for the artist, a neurotic cleric who’s embezzled church funds, the local doctor, an ex-convict who poached on the magistrate’s land, and a missionary’s enigmatic widow who argued with him the day before he was killed. An exasperated Inspector Slack must reluctantly accept help from the analytical Miss Marple.—Gabe Taverney (duke1029@aol.com)

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an excellent Miss Marple

Hickson is by far the best Miss Marple onscreen. Her performances make these cozy mysteries really entertaining. The screen adaptations in the series are a bit uneven, but I enjoyed all of them. I especially liked this one, “A Murder is Announced”, and “Sleeping Murder”.

The production values for the series were quite good, the supporting actors always at least passable and sometimes far better than that, and they didn’t take too many liberties with the stories. But Hickson’s performances are uniformly excellent.

Classic Christie

It is difficult to understand ITV’s decision to remake the Miss Marple series, because in Joan Hickson we have the definitive interpretation of Agatha Christie’s amateur sleuth. This particular story, Miss Marple’s first fictional outing,dates from 1930, but the writer, T.R. Bowen has skilfully updated it to the 1950s. The script is witty and the cast is endowed with such acting stalwarts as Paul Eddington and Rosalie Crutchley. If the plot does not seem so original now it is because Christie’s work was so often copied, and what must have seemed innovative in 1930 now appears to be hackneyed. All that said it is a story well told and worth a couple of hours of anyone’s time.

One of the better Joan Hickson adaptations

I really enjoyed this adaptation of “The Murder at the Vicarage”. It is not as good as the delightful “A Murder is Announced” but it is very enjoyable, and not only one of the better Joan Hickson adaptations, but a considerable improvement over the Geraldine McEwan version(though that was one of the better adaptations of that series I feel). The pace is solid, the pace was a problem I had with “They Do it With Mirrors” which is my least favourite of the series, and the story is well structured. There is a nice witty script and lovely production values. The acting is very good in general, the only weaknesses for me being that James Hazeldine underplaying his role of Lawrence Redding and Polly Adams a little too stiff as Anne. Joan Hickson really makes this work though, with a simple charm and wisdom she is for me the best Miss Marple, and out of the supporting cast I loved Cheryl Campbell as Griselda, a delightful performance from a great actress. I liked the music too, really pleasant to listen to. Overall, I really enjoyed this adaptation. 9/10 Bethany Cox