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.
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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)
The British have always been great at adapting books to film. This Bertram's is an excellent example. It maintains the integrity of a book while condensing it into a short span.
Bertram's Hotel is all that and more. The plot, characters and environment are beautifully done and wonderful to watch. An aging Joan Hickson (one of her later Marples) appropriately plays the aging Miss Marple. A friend replies "She must be 100 years old," or something to that effect.
The mystery is intriguing and I love seeing one of my favorite sleuths still able to see everything for what it really is, while fooling everyone with her elderly appearance. I love the actress who plays Bess Sedgwick. She hits the mark as Christie wrote her and she's fun to watch. I actually cared a great deal about her although some things about her character are not so hot. That pretty much goes for all the characters with one exception. Vadislaus Marinovsky is appropriately arrogant, still in keeping with the book.
This episode of the Miss Marple series with Joan Hickson is absolutely wonderful. I bought the DVD set and watch it often.
ONE WORD OF WARNING: If you're a newbie, do NOT mistake the two series. The new Marple series with Geraldine McEwan is terrible!!
- sherryminou07
- Aug 25, 2007
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