Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
- TV Mini Series
- 1987
- 1h 50m
During a stay at one of London's most elegant and venerable hotels Miss Marple uncovers a sinister undercurrent of corruption and murder beneath Bertram's stuffy veneer.During a stay at one of London's most elegant and venerable hotels Miss Marple uncovers a sinister undercurrent of corruption and murder beneath Bertram's stuffy veneer.During a stay at one of London's most elegant and venerable hotels Miss Marple uncovers a sinister undercurrent of corruption and murder beneath Bertram's stuffy veneer.
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- TriviaMiss Marple is directed to the "television room" which is said to be "tucked well away" and that "the Americans like it" as if no proper British person would watch. The British Broadcasting Corporation (who first broadcast this series) is credited with being the world's first regular television service with high-level image resolution, starting 2 November 1936. The disparaging remark about the BBC's first UK rival dates the episode's setting as after ITV's launch in 1955.
- GoofsA delivery van draws up in front of the hotel and the driver carries in a box of vegetables. No top-class hotel would allow such a thing: deliveries would go through a rear or below-ground service entrance.
- Quotes
Chief Inspector Fred Davy: You'll have to excuse me Miss Marple. I've got to go and see the chambermaid, Rose Sheldon.
Miss Jane Marple: Ah, now, you'd do well to talk to that young woman. I've trained quite a few maids in my time, but I've never seen a bob curtsey like that since the St. Mary Mead players put on a French farce.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Arena: Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait (1990)
I will say that some elements of the story are a little far fetched, and require a stretch in the imagination, some of the robberies etc, but the production is so velvety I didn't even give them a second thought.
Caroline Blakiston needs a huge level of applause for bringing the character of Bess Sedgwick to life. When you read the book she is the standout character, the interest and focus, Caroline makes her seem wealthy, edgy and wild. To see what I mean please check Polly Walker's performance in the poor remake, a great actress but doesn't bring her to life. 'Bigamy, trigamy what's the difference, scotch?'
Bertam's itself looks so believable, when I read the book this is exactly how I picture it, sleepy, subtly lavish and full of rich and retired gentle folk, eccentric in their ways and staid in their appearance, it's the reason Bess works so well, she is meant to stand out. The music as always is spot on, melodic and non obtrusive. The costumes too look gorgeous, especially the one Bess wears at the end.
I've mentioned before my opinions on Joan's interpretation of Miss Marple (so I won't bore again,) but once again she's just magical, scenes with Blakiston and femme fatale Joan Greenwood are just too good.
The ending is wonderfully done, so exciting, dare I sat it manages to out do the book.
It was never going to get anything other then a 10 was it. 10/10
- Sleepin_Dragon
- Oct 6, 2015
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