Agatha Christie's Marple

The Pale Horse

Season 5, Episode 4, Aired 8/30/10

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A Catholic priest is brutally murdered after taking confession from a dying parishioner. His old friend Miss Marple travels to London, where she discovers that a list of names sent to her by the priest is apparently of those recently deceased or about to die. Miss Marple's investigations lead her to the Pale Horse Inn, where the proprietress claims to be able to kill people using black magic.

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Julia McKenzie

Miss Jane Marple (Series 4-) (2009-)
Mike Shepherd

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JJ Feild

Paul Osbourne

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Dreadful **may contain spoilers**

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By sassyj64, Dec 01, 2011 Report Abuse

I am sorry to rain on the parade, but this is simply bad. I know they ran out of Marple novels, but to insert her as a character into an adaptation of this is just a move too far. Mark Easterbrook is the central character in the novel. A young sculptor. Although by the time he reaches this adaptation, he has become a curiously colourless, care-worn middle-aged man who does little but drift through his own story looking gormless. In fact, the actor concerned looks very much as though he would prefer to be somewhere else. Anywhere else in fact.

The witches were a somewhat hysterical joke, all that writhing around provoked a slightly incredulous laugh. And there seemed to be no end to the peculiar comedy turns which characterised this story.

Julia MacKenzie gives it her all, and to be honest she makes quite a good Miss Marple. But she cannot get past the fact that Miss Marple is not present in this tale and the graft simply has not taken.moreless

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- Murders
  Lady Minerva Hesketh-Dubois - Poisoned with thallium
  Thomasina Tuckerton - Poisoned with thallium
  Mrs Davis - Poisoned with thallium
  Father Patrick Gorman - Bludgeoned
  Captain Rupert Cottam - Poisoned with a lethal overdose of Spanish fly aphrodisiac
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- This episode is based on Agatha Christie's 1961 novel of the same name, which orginally featured novelist Ariadne Oliver, a recurring character in the Poirot novels. The novel had a gothic horror tone, its name taken from a passage in the Book of Revelation.
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