sleeping murders by agatha christie movie

The short stories, while not dramatized elsewhere other than “The Blue Geranium,” didn’t seem to have the interest that a novel would and, being only 24 minutes long, wouldn’t provide as good a showcase for Miss Marple. That’s only been filmed twice so we chose that. Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple in “Murder, She Said.”The other novel in the anime series was Sleeping Murder. That’s been filmed three other times, beginning with Margaret Rutherford’s version in 1961, renamed Murder, She Said. One of the two novels was 4.50 From Paddington. The anime series filmed eight Miss Marple tales in all, six short stories and two novels. In addition, a few of the Miss Marple novels have been filmed with other actresses. All of them have been adapted, both in the Joan Hickson series (1984-1992) and ITV’s Marple (2004-2013) so each novel has been filmed at least twice. For Poirot, I chose Mystery at End House because it was a novel that had only been adapted once (with David Suchet).Īgatha only wrote twelve Miss Marple novels. We’re only watching two stories, one for Poirot and one for Miss Marple.

There are 39 episodes in all in Agatha Christie’s Great Detectives Poirot and Marple. Read more of Teresa’s Agatha Christie movie reviews at Peschel Press.Īlso, follow Teresa’s discussion of these movie on her podcast. The animation is seriously static but the plot holds together. Quality of movie on its own: 2½ stranglers Maybelle and her pet duck make it friendlier. The plot’s there, but seriously simplified to be kid-friendly. Teresa reviews “Sleeping Murder” (2005), an episode from the anime “Agatha Christie’s Great Detectives” and found it a thin recreation of the great novel.

Sleeping murders by agatha christie movie