Unusual in the sense that it keeps teasing you with the possibility of a murder, but the murder only happens after 80 minutes of screen time have passed! This doesn't really work out too well: the murder investigation almost seems like an afterthought, and it's not very hard to guess the real killer (the suspicious goings-on at the title hotel and a priest's disappearance seem more important). On the positive side, it is clear from the first few shots that the female director of this one, Mary McMurray, has a more cinematic camera eye than many of her male colleagues who worked on this series, and both Caroline Blakiston, as the attractive, anarchic, adventurous middle-aged Bess Sedgwick and Helena Michell as her pretty, impulsive daughter are well-cast. (**1/2)
Review of Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
