Miss Jane Marple is an elderly lady who lives in the little English village of St. Mary Mead. She has a sharp logical mind, and often embarrasses the local "professional" police by solving mysteries that have them stumped.
Product description
Agatha Christie: The Miss Marple Collection (12 movies)
Classic murder mysteries by the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, filmed entirely on location and oozing period atmosphere. Joan Hickson's gentle portrayal is the most popular Miss Marple ever, winning her loyal fans around the world and a Best Actress award from the Royal Television Society.
The 12 movies are presented in two high quality carton folders.
See the list of movies and other details under Additional information.
This movie comes from our personal collection and only one piece is available
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Additional information
Starring
Joan Hickson as Miss Marple, John Moulder-Brown, Geraldine Alexander, George Baker, Caroline Blakiston, Claire Bloom, Glynis Barber, Barrie Newman, Margaret Tyzack, Helen Cherry, Anna Cropper, John Ackland, Jean Simmons and many others in the various movies
Format
2 carton folders, Colour, PAL
Main soundtrack
English Dolby Stereo 2.0
Subtitles
OFF, Greek
Special features
-
Region
Aspect ratio
4:3
Number of discs
12
Classification
BBFC
Studio
2 Entertain Video
DVD release date
20 Jun 2005 in the UK
Run time
1350 minutes (22 hours 30 mins)
EAN
-
List of movies
Disc 1
A Murder Is Announced
A murder is announced in the Chipping Cleghorne Gazette to take place on October 5th, 7 PM at Little Paddocks cottage. The people living there, retired secretary Miss Blacklock, her companion Miss Bunner, Miss Blacklock's two distant cousins, Patrick and Julia and Mrs.Haymes, a gardener, have no idea what the ad is about. Several villagers arrive at the house under the false pretenses of "just walking by" or "Was in the neighborhood". At exactly 7 PM, the lights go out, and a man enters the room, and shines a flashlight in everyone's face. Then shots are heard. As the lights come back on, they find the man who entered the room has been shot. Miss Marple must unmask the killer but soon more murders turn up.
«Την Παρασκευή 5 Οκτωβρίου και ώρα 7 μ.μ. ένας φόνος θα λάβει χώρα». Αυτά αναφέρει μια παράξενη και σκοτεινή αγγελία στην εφημερίδα. Όλοι νομίζουν ότι πρόκειται για ένα πρωτότυπο παιχνίδι και θέλουν να δουν το μεγάλο γεγονός! Όταν όμως ένα πτώμα ανακαλύπτεται όλοι καταλαβαίνουν πως το παιχνίδι τελείωσε και θεωρούνται ύποπτοι. Ο δολοφόνος έχει φροντίσει να κρύψει πολύ καλά τα ίχνη του, όμως η Miss Marple έρχεται να ανατρέψει τα σχέδια του.
Disc 2
The Body in the Library
In the small village of St. Mary Mead, Colonel and Mrs. Bantry, owner of the local manor - Gossington Hall is shocked when one morning a young lady's body is found in the library. They call in the police who soon run up against a brick wall, only finding out that the body is that of a dancer in London who the Bantry's didn't even know. But how and why was her body left in the library? To find out the truth, the Bantry's call in the help of their good friend and detective - Miss Jane Marple.
Ένα πρωί στη βιβλιοθήκη της οικίας των Bantry, η καμαριέρα ανακαλύπτει το πτώμα μιας νεαρής γυναίκας. Η Miss Marple, που διαμένει σε γειτονικό σπίτι, αναλαμβάνει δράση κι έτσι η αγωνιώδης αναζήτηση του δολοφόνου ξεκινά... Ύποπτοι, διπλοί φόνοι, κατασκευασμένα άλλοθι, πολύτιμα στοιχεία και, κυρίως, πάντα το αλάνθαστο ένστικτο της διάσημης Miss Marple.
Disc 3
A Pocketful of Rye
Wealthy business man Rex Fortescue collapses when he reaches his office. It is determined that he was poisoned. No one seems too upset, as everyone agrees that Rex was a tyrant. Soon however Rex's young wife also turns up poisoned. The maid, Gladyes, whom Miss Marple trained, writes to Miss Marple asking for help. Miss Marple arrives too late, as Gladyses' body is found strangled and strung up on the clothes line. Now it's personal, and Miss Marple is determined to see the murderer punished.
Ο ιδιοκτήτης μιας μεγάλης χρηματιστηριακής εταιρείας δηλητηριάζεται. Μια χούφτα σίκαλη, που βρίσκεται στο σακάκι του, είναι το μόνο ενοχοποιητικό στοιχείο. Η Miss Marple, με το αλάνθαστο ένστικτό της, θα πρέπει να αποκρυπτογραφήσει τους στίχους ενός παιδικού τραγουδιού, προκειμένου να βρει τα ίχνη του δολοφόνου και να αποτρέψει τον πολλαπλασιασμό των θυμάτων.
Disc 4
The Murder at the Vicarage
When a despised magistrate is found shot to death in the library of the local vicarage, his wife and her lover, a portrait painter living on the church grounds, both confess to the crime. Miss Marple's keen powers of observation clear both of them of the crime, but other suspects abound. Included are the murdered man's daughter, who posed for the artist, a neurotic cleric who's embezzled church funds, the local doctor, an ex-convict who poached on the magistrate's land, and a missionary's enigmatic widow who argued with him the day before he was killed. An exasperated Inspector Slack must reluctantly accept help from the analytical Miss Marple.
Ο συνταγματάρχης Lucius Protheroe είναι το πιο αντιπαθητικό άτομο στο St. Mary Mead, λόγω της υπεροπτικής του στάσης. Όταν, λοιπόν, βρίσκεται νεκρός στο αναγνωστήριο του πρεσβυτερίου, οι ύποπτοι είναι πολλοί. Η Jane Marple, από το σπίτι της, έχει παρακολουθήσει όλα τα άτομα που μπαινόβγαιναν στο πρεσβυτέριο την ώρα του φόνου και προθυμοποιείται να βοηθήσει τον επιθεωρητή Stack στην εξιχνίαση του εγκλήματος.
Disc 5
Sleeping Murder
A young recently married woman, Gwenda Reed, comes back to England after living most of her life in New Zealand. While her husband, Giles, is out of the country she buys a house for them and starts recalling memories which make her start to think that perhaps she had lived in the house before. It's only then, while dining out with friends, that a chance remark triggered off a frightening memory, as a little girl, looking down at a woman's body and the murderer with "monkey paws" hands. Gwenda is determined to find out the sources of this memory. The killer, thought that he/she was safe after eighteen years and is prepared to kill to cover up the past. But Gwenda has help as one of her dining friends is Raymond West, who has a very special Aunt who is willing to help Gwenda - Miss Jane Marple.
Η Miss Marple καλείται να βοηθήσει την Gwenda, μια πλούσια γυναίκα, η οποία μόλις μετακομίζει στο νέο της σπίτι στις αγγλικές ακτές, αρχίζει να βλέπει οράματα. Η Miss Marple ανακαλύπτει ότι η Gwenda είχε περάσει την παιδική της ηλικία σε αυτό το σπίτι και όχι στην Ινδία, όπως μέχρι τότε πίστευε. Κι ενώ η μνήμη της Gwenda της παίζει σκοτεινά παιχνίδια, εκείνη ανακαλύπτει ότι υπήρξε κάποτε μάρτυρας στη δολοφονία μιας όμορφης γυναίκας.
Disc 6
At Bertram's Hotel
While on a fortnight's holiday at Bertram's Hotel in London, where Miss Marple stayed as a young girl, she is faced with several puzzles. She meets an old acquaintance, Canon Pennyfather, who is also staying at the hotel but who vanishes after a planned trip to Lucerne. She also overhears Lady Sedgwick threaten the hotel doorman, whom she had obviously known at some point in her past. She also realizes that a young woman at the hotel is actually Lady Sedgwick's daughter, who she abandoned as a child. Miss Marple knows that all of the goings on, including the murder of a hotel employee, are intricately connected and works with Chief Inspector Fred Davy to find the solution.
Η Miss Marple στη διάρκεια των διακοπών της στο ξενοδοχείο Μπέρτραμ, έρχεται αντιμέτωπη με μια σειρά ύποπτων περιστατικών. Συναντιέται με έναν παλιό της γνωστό, τον Canon Pennyfather, ο οποίος εξαφανίζεται μυστηριωδώς. Ακούει κατά τύχη την Lady Sedgwick να απειλεί τον πορτιέρη του ξενοδοχείου, ο οποίος στη συνέχεια βρίσκεται νεκρός, ενώ αντιλαμβάνεται ότι μια ένοικος του ξενοδοχείου είναι η εγκαταλελειμμένη κόρη της Sedgwick. Η Miss Marple γνωρίζει ότι όλα αυτά τα γεγονότα είναι αλληλένδετα και βοηθά τον γενικό επιθεωρητή Fred Davy στην εξιχνίαση της υποθέσεως.
Disc 7
4.50 from Paddington
Elspeth McGillicuddy, an old friend of Miss Marple's, witnesses a strangulation murder in a passing train through the window of her coach compartment. When Police Inspector Slack can't find a body along the tracks and doubts the validity of the story, Miss Marple and Elspeth locate the area where the body was probably thrown from the train, the isolated manor house of an aged, cantankerous millionaire, Luther Crackenthorpe. Miss Marple's niece Lucy is recruited to apply for a job on the estate in hopes of locating the corpse. When she finds it in an ancient sarcophagus in an outbuilding housing Egyptian and Etruscan art treasures, the police and Miss Marple are brought in. Obviously someone in the large household is involved, but who?
O στραγγαλισμός μιας γυναίκας σε μια διαδρομή με το τρένο φέρνει αντιμέτωπη τη Miss Marple με τον επιθεωρητή Slack. Η υπόθεση μπαίνει στο αρχείο, αλλά η Miss Marple γνωρίζει το πιθανό σημείο που έχει εξαφανιστεί το πτώμα. Τελικά, με τη βοήθεια της ανιψιάς της ανακαλύπτει το πτώμα μιας γυναίκας στο κτήμα Crackenthorpe... Το ενδιαφέρον της αστυνομίας για την υπόθεση αναζωπυρώνεται, όμως μόνο η Miss Marple θα διαλευκάνει το μυστήριο.
Disc 8
The Moving Finger
Squadron Leader Gerry Burton is sent to a tranquil country village to recover from the effects of a plane crash and be nursed back to health by his beautiful sister Joanna. As they are new to the community, they are shocked to receive an anonymous, sexually explicit poison pen letter. They later find that other village gentry have been victimized by the same crank writer, and the vicar's wife sends for her friend Miss Marple in hopes of exposing the perpetrator. When a solicitor's wife apparently takes poison after receiving a particularly vicious message, Miss Marple suspects that the letters are a smokescreen for something more ominous. When a house maid is found bludgeoned to death, she knows she is right.
Τα ένοχα μυστικά δεν λείπουν από τη μικρή πόλη του Lymstock - όπου ακόμα κι ένα ξαφνικό κύμα από ανώνυμα απειλητικά γράμματα δεν ταράζει ιδιαίτερα τα νερά. Όταν, όμως, ένα από τα γράμματα οδηγεί την κυρία Symmington στην αυτοκτονία, η Miss Marple αναλαμβάνει την υπόθεση. Μήπως η κυρία Symmington δολοφονήθηκε; Τα γράμμαχσ γίνονται ολοένα και πιο απειλητικά, οι υποψίες βαραίνουν τους πάντες και στο χωριό επικρατεί μεγάλη σύγχυση...
Disc 9
A Carribean Mystery
Although Miss Marple wants only to bask quietly at a West Indian resort, she is badgered with boring reminiscences by an overly talkative ex-soldier and policeman, Major Palgrave. Although he claims to possess a picture of a murderer, Miss Marple is more interested in her omnipresent knitting than his long-winded stories. After the hard-drinking Major dies that night of an apparent heart attack, the maid tells her that the blood pressure medication found in his room belongs to another guest. When she later learns that the incriminating picture is missing and the maid is found stabbed to death, Miss Marple correctly predicts that more murders will follow.
Η Miss Marple πηγαίνει διακοπές στην Καραϊβική, αλλά νιώθει πλήξη μακριά οπό τη γεμάτη ενδιαφέρον ζωή του St Mary Mead. Όλα αλλάζουν όταν ένας ένοικος του ξενοδοχείου της, ο ηλικιωμένος Ταγματάρχης Palgrave, βρίσκεται νεκρός. Ο θάνατος του αποδίδεται σε φυσικά αίτια, μέχρι τη στιγμή που μια υπηρέτρια βρίσκει στο δωμάτιο του μακαρίτη φάρμακα που ανήκουν σε άλλον ένοικο. Όταν και η συγκεκριμένη υπηρέτρια βρίσκεται νεκρή, η Miss Marple αναλαμβάνει δράση...
Disc 10
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Beautiful film star Marina Gregg is attempting to make a comeback after being off-screen for many years due to an emotional breakdown and substance abuse. She is supported by her fifth husband and director of the movie, Jason Rudd. They rent a manor house in St. Mary Mead and host a reception for the villagers. A pushy, gushing fan who had met Gregg briefly before her breakdown is poisoned by a drink apparently meant for the film star. Because of Gregg's celebrity status, Superintendent Slack assigns one of his most skilled and discreet investigators, Inspector Craddock, who happens to be Miss Marple's nephew. Together they set about investigating the death threats and blackmail associated with the case.
Μια σταρ του Χόλιγουντ, η Marina Gregg, επισκέπτεται το St Mary Mead και συναντάει πολλούς κατοίκους του. Ανάμεσα τους και τη Heather Babcock, η οποία δηλητηριάζεται από ένα κοκτέιλ που προοριζόταν για τη Marina. Ποια από τις δύο ήταν ο στόχος του δολοφόνου; Ο σύζυγος της Marina αποκαλύπτει ότι υπάρχουν πολλοί που θα ήθελαν το κακό της γυναίκας του... Η Miss Marple θα λύσει ένα ακόμη μυστήριο...
Disc 11
Nemesis
A millionaire's dying wish is for his friend Miss Marple to go on a prearranged guided tour to right an undisclosed past wrong, possibly a murder. She agrees to this enigmatic request and finds that other murders are on the travel itinerary.
Η Miss Marple αναλαμβάνει την επίλυση μιας περίπλοκης υπόθεσης... Λίγο μετά το θάνατο του χρηματιστή John Rafiel, ένα γράμμα με αποστολέα τον ίδιο και παραλήπτη τη δαιμόνια ντετέκτιβ ζητάει τη διαλεύκανση μιας δολοφονίας, για την οποία ελάχιστα στοιχεία υπάρχουν. Η Jane Marple καταλήγει στο ότι η ιστορία αρχίζει να ξετυλίγεται το 1939 με την εξαφάνιση μιας νεαρής γυναίκας, της Verity Hunt. Σύντομα, ένας ακόμη θάνατος έρχεται να φωτίσει την υπόθεση.
Disc 12
They Do It with Mirrors
Miss Marple is invited to London to see her old friend Ruth. Miss Marple was a sort of traveling companion to Ruth and her sister, Carrie Louise. Ruth is worried about Carrie Louise. She doesn't know why, though. Ruth asks Miss Marple to come with her to her sister's estate, Stonygates. Stonygates is a huge manor house, and some of the buildings and the grounds are used by Carrie Louises' current husband, Lewis, as a reformatory for juvenile criminals. Miss Marple meets the people who live there - Carrie Louise's grand-daughter Gina and her malcontent American husband Walter; Stephen and Alex Restarick, Carrie Louise's stepsons by her first marriage; Edgar Lawson, Lewis' mentally unstable secretary; and Carrie Louise's daughter, Mildred, who is jealous of Gina. Soon, Carrie Louise's stepson by her second marriage shows up. He is Christian Guldbrandsen, and he runs the trust which contributes a fraction of the funds used to run Stonygates. He and Lewis talk in private. Later that night, Edgar begins waving a gun around and ranting that Lewis is his father. Lewis takes him to his office where the argument becomes even more heated. After a few minutes, two shots are heard, and then hysterical crying. The door opens to reveal Lewis, unhurt. Edgar missed him. However, the body of Christian Guldbrandsen is discovered, shot. Miss Marple sets out to find the murderer before it is too late for her good friend Carrie Louise.
Η Miss Marple είναι φιλοξενούμενη στο κτήμα Stonygates, όπου ζει η παιδική της φίλη, Carrie Louise, με τον τρίτο της σύζυγο, Lewis. Ο τελευταίος έχει μετατρέψει τους βοηθητικούς χώρους του σπιτιού σε ένσ πρότυπο αναμορφωτήριο για ανήλικους εγκληματίες. Εκεί, η Miss Marple έρχεται αντιμέτωπη με ένα οικογενειακό δράμα και μια δολοφονία, ενώ αποφασίζει νο αναλάβει δράση, πριν να είναι πολύ αργά για την καλή της φίλη Carrie Louise.
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