Marple: The Moving Finger
- Director: Tom Shankland
- Writer: Agatha Christie; Kevin Elyot
- Producer: Michele Buck; Phil Clymer
CGiii Comment
Considering this was made in 2006...technically, it is atrocious.
John Sessions plays the only gay in the village...the rest of the cast resemble an episode of Little Britain.
As for Miss Marple...she's hardly in it, when she is...she's decidedly creepy.
The acting - by most - is utter ham...and, those are the 'good' performances. Enfield stands out as totally inadequate...as do a few others.
Elyot's writing is painful pastiche.
Shankland's direction is nothing more than sub-standard - the result is akin to a home-movie of an am-drama performance in the local village hall.
Utter rubbish.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
When troubled war veteran Jerry Burton and his sister Joanna relocate to the quiet little village of Lymstock in order to allow Jerry to recuperate from injuries received in what he claims is a motorcycle accident, they are expecting nothing more than country sleepiness and tedium. Much to their surprise, however, they find themselves embroiled in the middle of scandal and secrets; someone is sending vicious poison-pen letters to the residents. A local dignitary has already taken his own life over the letters, and it's not long before local gossip Mona Symmington also commits suicide after receiving a letter. But when the letter-writer apparently resorts to murder, Jerry finds his curiosity stoked despite himself, and he's not the only one; Miss Jane Marple is also in Lymstock, and she's decided that it's long past time someone got to the bottom of this unpleasant business.
Cast & Characters
Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple;
James D'Arcy as Jerry Burton;
Ken Russell as Reverend Caleb Dane Calthrop;
Frances de la Tour as Mrs. Maud Dane Calthrop;
Thelma Barlow as Emily Barton;
Jessica Hynes as Aimee Griffith;
Sean Pertwee as Dr. Owen Griffith;
Imogen Stubbs as Mona Symmington;
Harry Enfield as Richard Symmington;
Kelly Brook as Elsie Holland;
John Sessions as Cardew Pye;
Rosalind Knight as Partridge;
Emilia Fox as Joanna Burton;
Ellen Capron as Agnes;
Talulah Riley as Megan Hunter