Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage

1986

Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery

8
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 2566 2.6K

based on novel or book detective

Plot summary

Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help from Miss Marple.

Director

Julian Amyes Photo
Julian Amyes

Top cast

Rosalie Crutchley Photo
Rosalie Crutchley as Mrs. Price-Ridley
Norma West Photo
Norma West as Mrs. Lestrange
Cheryl Campbell Photo
Cheryl Campbell as Griselda Clement
Paul Eddington Photo
Paul Eddington as Reverend Leonard Clement
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913.09 MB
1280*960
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 39 min
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1.66 GB
1440*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 39 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by davyd-02237 7 / 10

The "superior" version!

Joan Hickson IS Miss Marple and hasn't ever been beaten. Oddly, in this one she doesn't actually change her "outfit". I believe she wears the same clothing throughout. Given it 7 as today its clear that BBC in the 80s were already going down the road where "blasphemy" wasn't picked up by "The Vicar" or indeed anyone else, which in the 50s it most certainly would have been. Some of the language is therefore typically BBC trying to "update" when it wasn't needed. Inspector Slack and his sidekick are well suited to these things of allowing the "intruder" (miss marple) to steal their thunder. Never tire of watching Joan Hickson in one of these and compared to most offerings today with "same sex" and increased foul language its rather pleasant to have something that for the most part is watchable even if the plot line is pretty thin
Reviewed by bkoganbing 6 / 10

Ringing Miss Marple in on the crime.

Like Cabot Cove in Maine, USA, St.Mary Mead in Great Britain seems to be the murder capital of that country. You would think so with Miss Marple solving all those murders in and around there.The murder victim in this case is a very nasty sort of man who has the title colonel from his army days. Robert Lang is a nasty version of that satirical figure from the United Kingdom between the wars Colonel Blimp. his guy expects his family to address him as Colonel and they do. He's pretty disliked by one and all.Reverend Paul Eddington finds Lang slumped over his (Eddington's) desk at the vicarage. There's a long list of suspects.What the two who planned it also planned to use Jane Marple as an alibi witness as they know she's outside tending her garden at the time planned. Both make sure Joan Hickson sees them. It's what throws off both Scotland Yard as Miss Marple.Hickson comes pretty close to what I think Agatha Christie wanted in Jane Marple. Hickson was 80 when she did this Marple series for the BB, this particular episode. The villains think her advanced age makes dotty. But she fools them.
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