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When a handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman, Miss Marple seeks a murderer with a penchant for nursery rhymes.When a handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman, Miss Marple seeks a murderer with a penchant for nursery rhymes.When a handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman, Miss Marple seeks a murderer with a penchant for nursery rhymes.
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- TriviaThe 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.
- GoofsJust 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.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Arena: Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait (1990)
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One of the better TV translations of an Agatha Christie novel...
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.
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- Miss Marple - Das Geheimnis der Goldmine
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- Thelveton Hall, Diss, Norfolk, England, UK(Fortescue house Yew Tree Lodge.)
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