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Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel: With Joan Hickson, Caroline Blakiston, Helena Michell, James Cossins. During a stay at one of London's most elegant and venerable hotels Miss Marple uncovers a sinister undercurrent of corruption and murder beneath Bertram's stuffy veneer.
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- 1987-01-25
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- 110
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Part One: Directed by Mary McMurray. With Joan Hickson, Caroline Blakiston, Helena Michell, James Cossins. Miss Marple takes a well earned holiday at Bertram's, a Hotel she stayed in as a child.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Mary McMurray
- 1987-01-25
- Synopsis
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Miss Marple has a nostalgic stay at one of London's most elegant and venerable hotels where nothing seems to have changed from long ago. She soon discovers that it is "almost too good to be true".
Joan Hickson as Miss MarpleCaroline Blakiston as Bess SedgwickHelena Michell as Elvira BlakeJames Cossins as Colonel LuscombeThe interior used as the lobby of Bertram's Hotel, is the same interior used as The Elizabeth Club for Ladies in the 1987 adaptation of 4.50 from Paddington.
At Bertram's Hotel (1987), featuring Joan Greenwood as a gossiping old acquaintance of Miss Marple's, has an uncharacteristic action climax in which a villain tries to escape, but also cleverly highlights the trap of easy nostalgia, an accusation that was occasionally levelled at the series.
1 x 100 minute episode. 1 x 115 minute episode. The late Joan Hickson was perfectly cast when, at age 78, she took on the role of Miss Jane Marple for the BBC. Physically, she brilliantly embodied the shrewd, sharp-eyed, owlish spinster from the village of St Mary Mead, while also conveying her intuitive acumen and razor-sharp mind as she used ...
A Caribbean Mystery: With Joan Hickson. While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British major is actually the work of a murderer planning yet another killing.