After the Rutherford and the Hickson versions, merrily dispatching with large parts of the murder plot (the Hickson version was so different from the novel in the second half of the film that I thought to have mistakenly changed channel on my telly), at last we can see Paddington quite as Agatha wrote it, with all the marvelous complexities of her murder mystery.The murderer is let at last to poison an entire family,Martine Crackenthorpe can graciously appear as the loving mother of James Stoddart-West, and her presence in the story is clearly explained. Amanda Holden is a good rival for Jill Meager in the part of Lucy Eyelesbarrow, and John Hannah plays a mild,nice ,intelligently goofy policeman, pleasantly similar to Jim Hutton in the Ellery Queen old series.And Pam Ferris and Geraldine McEwan are a formidable,impressive,highly sympathetic dynamic duo!
Review of Marple: What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw
