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Agatha
Christie's Marple - 'A Murder is Announced'
based
on the novel by Agatha Christie; screenplay by Stewart
Harcourt
An Agatha Christie, Ltd., Granada, ITV, and WGBH/Boston
co-production.
First broadcast on ITV 1, 2nd January 2005.
Director: John Strikland
Producer: Matthew Read
Executive Producers: Michele Buck, Damien Timmer, Phil
Clymer and Rebecca Eaton
Cinematography: Sue Gibson
Makeup: Isabel While
Music: Dominik Scherrer
Running time: approx. 94 mins
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Cast
(in
alphabetical order) |
Alexander Armstrong.....DI
Dermot Craddock
Frances Barber.....Lizzie Hinchcliffe
Christian Coulson.....Edmund Swettenham
Richard Dixon.....Mr Rowlandson
Matthew Goode.....Patrick Simmons
Sienna Guillory.....Julia Simmons
Keeley Hawes.....Philippa Haymes
Gerard Horan.....DS Fletcher
Nicole Lewis.....Myrna Harris
Cherie Lunghi.....Sadie Swettenham
Geraldine McEwan.....Miss Jane Marple
Virginia McKenna.....Belle Goedler
Lesley Nicol.....Nurse McClelland
Elaine Paige.....Dora Bunner
Christian Pedersen.....Rudi Schertz
Robert Pugh.....Colonel Archie Easterbrook
Claire Skinner.....Amy Murgatroyd
Catherine Tate.....Mitzi Kosinski
Zoë Wanamaker.....Letitia Blacklock |
Production |
In
the village of Chipping
Cleghorn, a strange announcement appears in the local newspaper:
a murder is to take place that evening at Little Paddocks. At the
appointed time, a curious crowd, half-expecting some form of
elaborate illusion, begins to gather. But when the
villagers are plunged into darkness, events take a more sinister
turn...
'A Murder Is Announced', based on the
novel by Agatha Christie, was the final episode in a
four-part series broadcast on ITV 1. The other Miss
Marple mysteries adapted for the screen - each with an all-star
cast - were 'The Body in the Library', 'The Murder at the
Vicarage' and '4.50 from Paddington'. Following in
the footsteps of Gracie Fields and Joan Hickson, among others,
Geraldine McEwan assumed the title role of Christie's veteran
super-sleuth. The mutli-million pound dramatizations
injected some 1950s style into the proceedings and gave the plots a
more modern flavour. |
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Agatha
Christie, 'A Murder is Announced' - A new edition of the
novel to tie-in with the television series. Includes
behind-the-scenes information and production photos. |
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Agatha
Christie's Marple - Set 1 (Region 1) DVD Box Set |
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Agatha
Christie's Marple - Complete Series (Region 2) DVD Box Set |
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