Don't fix it if it ain't broke! I don't get why the new writers feel they have to put completely different storylines into something that had a good one already. Maybe it's one reason the series was able to be made. Maybe they were trying to sell to an American market that loves all things English and quaint. Some of the characters in this episode we so stereotypically English caricatures, you could have buttered a crumpet with them.
The acting in general was good, though the whole acting troupe stuff was painful to watch. I guess the thing is, as with all 'star-studded' attempts, when you gather together so many names in a cast, it should work, but often it falls somehow flat.
I love the story - I really enjoyed the mystery about why Gwenda was having all these feeling about the house, and just exactly what she saw when she was a child and who was responsible. But again, whereas Christie alluded to a possibly would-be incestuous relationship between Gwenda and the killer, this was somehow toned down here - and this from a series that put a lesbian relationship in another show!
Lovely settings - British drama series seem to be good at finding amazing locations that fit the period perfectly. Great production values, good cast, just some unnecessary changes to the story that didn't add anything in particular.moreless
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Miss Marple is asked to help Gwenda Halliday, a wealthy young woman who has bought a house on the English coast, only to experience disturbing visions. Soon Gwenda discovers that, instead of spending all her life in India, she had lived in the house as a child. The visions are actually flashes of memory - and she realizes she witnessed the murder of a beautiful woman who was a singer for an acting troupe known as The Funnybones.moreless
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Geraldine McEwan
Miss Jane Marple (Series 1-3) (2004-2008)
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Dawn French
Janet Erskine
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Paul McGann
Dickie Erskine
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ADD NOTES- SPOILER: The point of Gwenda remembering the original murder is that she is looking THROUGH the hall banister railings because she was only a child. In the flashback at the end, though, the child is seeing looking OVER the banister. Edit
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Murders Claire Halliday (Helen Marsden) - Strangled
Kelvin Halliday - Pushed off cliff
Lily Tutt - Strangled Edit - Sleeping Murder was filmed by the BBC in 1986 as a two-part mini-series under the series Miss Marple. It was directed by John Howard Davies and starred Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. This new adaptation (with many extreme plot changes) was filmed in 2005. Edit
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ADD QUOTES- Jackie Afflick: Miss Ballantyne. Eve Ballantine: Mr. Afflick. Jackie Afflick: How's tricks? Eve Ballantine: Tricky. Edit
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