John Moffatt starred as Poirot in the BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of 1990. He says of the real case of the serial wife-killer George Joseph Smith: "he obeyed the common dictates of human nature, arguing that what had once succeeded would succeed again, and he paid the penalty of his lack of originality." Poirot is in his element on this case, revealing that human nature is always repetitive. The girl is traced to a seaside resort and the desperate family of a wealthy old man.The plot has peculiar complications and the reader will have to be very astute indeed if he guesses who the criminal is until the last complexity has been unravelled.Īs Laura Thompson writes in her biography of Christie's life, Murder on the Links was "very French." Agatha Christie had always been influenced by French crime writers (specifically, Gaston Leroux, author of The Mystery of the Yellow Room and The Phantom of the Opera) and this story shows some marked differences in tone and style from the novels published on either side of it. Miss Marple helps her neighbours the Bantrys when a lovely young girl is found dead in their library. The Body in the Library was repeated on BBC Four in September and October 2013. As someone notes about the case, "you'll have to admit it has all the bizarre elements of a cheap thriller." Once hooked, you won't be able to turn it off. And the supporting cast is admirable, particularly Gwen Watford as Dolly and David Horovitch as Inspector Slack. Miss Hickson is lovely, neither as awesome as Miss Rutherford nor as overly cute as Helen Hayes. The characters are nicely realized and the suspense holds. This BBC/Arts & Entertainment co-production offers an especially good example of Agatha Christie in adaptation. Miss Christie would no doubt approve of Joan Hickson, the veteran British character actress who plays Miss Marple. In his review in The New York Times, critic John J. In the United States the film was first broadcast on 4 January 1986 as a part of PBS's Mystery!. Starring Joan Hickson in the title role, it was the first film presented in the British television series Miss Marple and premiered in three parts from 26 to 28 December 1984 on BBC One. Bowen and was directed by Silvio Narizzano. The film uses an adapted screenplay by T.
The Body in the Library is a 3-part 1984 television film adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1942 detective novel The Body in the Library, which was co-produced by the BBC and the A&E Network.
1984 television film directed by Silvio Narizzano
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