A Caribbean Mystery
- Episode aired Sep 21, 2014
- TV-PG
- 1h 29m
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7.4/10
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Miss Marple is drawn into a case of intrigue and black magic when a Major who bragged of owning a photo of a murderer dies under mysterious circumstances.Miss Marple is drawn into a case of intrigue and black magic when a Major who bragged of owning a photo of a murderer dies under mysterious circumstances.Miss Marple is drawn into a case of intrigue and black magic when a Major who bragged of owning a photo of a murderer dies under mysterious circumstances.
Pippa Bennett-Warner
- Victoria
- (as Pippa Bennett Warner)
Joe Vaz
- Sergeant Weston
- (as Jose Moreira Vaz)
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Did you know
- TriviaAmong the guests is a character called Ian Fleming, writing a spy novel, but lacking a name for his protagonist. He then is invited by Miss Marple to attend a lecture on birds given by one James Bond. This is clearly a reference to the real-life Ian Fleming, who was inspired to write the Bond novels in the Carribean, and who named the spy after an ornithologist and popular writer on birds in the Carribean. However, the actual ornithologist, James Bond, was American and both was born and died in Philadelphia. The ornithologist Bond in this episode has a strong British accent, being played by Charlie Higson, who both wrote the screenplay for this episode and a number of children's books about a James Bond, Jr.
Furthermore, in this dramatization the ornithologist introduces himself as "Bond, James Bond", after which Fleming is seen scribbling something on a notepad. While this phrase is ubiquitous in the James Bond movies, the secret agent never introduces himself this way in any of Ian Fleming's novels.
- GoofsWhen Miss Marple is taking care of Molly she goes into the bathroom. The light switches in the room are far too modern for the period that the film is set.
- Quotes
Miss Marple: If a murderer gets a formula that works, they won't stop. They go on with it.
Major Palgrave: Like Lucrezia Borgia, or the Brides In The Bath!
- ConnectionsVersion of A Caribbean Mystery (1983)
Featured review
Miss Marple, voodoo, Ian Fleming, James Bond and murder
Miss Marple is on holiday in the Caribbean, at the Golden Palms resort in St Honore. Seated beside her at a dinner, Major Palgrave seems to recognise in the crowd a murderer from a photograph he has. When Miss Marple quizzes him on is comments he refuses to be drawn on the subject and head back to his room. He is found the next day, dead, apparently from a heart attack. Due to the reaction he had the previous night, Miss Marple suspects it was murder.
Reasonably intriguing mystery, with a great setting. The Caribbean vibe and the underlying current of voodoo and general sinister air help the intrigue. Not a particularly complex mystery ultimately, but it will do.
The non-mystery side of the Miss Marple series tends to be pretty dull and uneventful, due to the blandness of Miss Marple's character and the fact that she has no regular secondary characters around her (unlike Poirot with Hastings, Japp and Lemon). However, here we have a reasonably interesting sub-plot involving Ian Fleming, the author, and how he struck upon the name of James Bond for the hero of his books. Unfortunately this sub-plot is quite brief, but it is reasonably entertaining.
Reasonably intriguing mystery, with a great setting. The Caribbean vibe and the underlying current of voodoo and general sinister air help the intrigue. Not a particularly complex mystery ultimately, but it will do.
The non-mystery side of the Miss Marple series tends to be pretty dull and uneventful, due to the blandness of Miss Marple's character and the fact that she has no regular secondary characters around her (unlike Poirot with Hastings, Japp and Lemon). However, here we have a reasonably interesting sub-plot involving Ian Fleming, the author, and how he struck upon the name of James Bond for the hero of his books. Unfortunately this sub-plot is quite brief, but it is reasonably entertaining.
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- Miss Marple: Rejtély az Antillákon
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