A Caribbean Mystery
- Episode aired Sep 21, 2014
- TV-PG
- 1h 29m
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7.3/10
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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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- 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)
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A good Marple with zombies!
A really excellent episode opens this new Mackenzie season!The tropical atmosphere ,with hurricanes,voodoo and a very stuffy jungle is used perfectly for the creation of a compelling story,very faithful and with some clever new tricks added to the original.I liked particularly the accident about the murdered maid and her own zombie,used by Higson in a very clever way for giving an alibi to the murderer.I think it's the first time that zombies are used in a whodunit as a part of the murdering plot,and they have done it in a very subtle way,simple and particular in its own way.The directing is wonderful,the research of the murdered maid,the death of poor major Palgrave,the final discovery of the guilty party are particularly effective,as Bethany Cox has pointed out.Personally,I liked very much Webb as a caring husband,overwhelmed by his wife's madness.Charles Mesure was an excellent Dyson(I would have preferred it to Barnes-Worrell for Etienne De Sousa ,in Dead Man's Folly),and I liked too the smitten canon played by Rigby with a surprising romantic part at the very happy end.Of course Sher is the best of the lot, gruff,amusing and endearing,and he has a wonderful chemistry with Great Julia (the only reproach I could made to the Hickson version was the absolute lack of chemistry among Great Joan and Great Pleasence,two wonderful actors but in some way having in the movie no mutual empathy at all,I don't know why!) .Ford Davies is a sympathetic major and Norris a wife so strong,determined and highly dramatic that in some way wipes away completely her husband,poor Alastair Mackenzie,a good actor but in this case singularly bland and opaque.Higson is really a good new entry for the series.I hope he will pens other scripts with the same cleverness.Marple must not let us orphans too after Poirot's untimely death.We can't lose them both,someone must remain alive for carrying the holy torch of Agatha on ITV channel!New Marple seasons,please,it's mandatory!We want to see Julia in the Idol House of Astarte and in the Crooked House,under the Postern of Fate ,chasing N or M in a flashback prequel and tasting a swig of Sparkling Cyanide!
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