Exactly. It’s a small world, an island really and not at all diverse or inclusive, strictly hierarchical with anything resembling passion carefully redacted. Only foreigners are passionate. Maybe that’s what we colonials find so relaxing, the unreality, the nothing to do with us-ness. What’s interesting is the human behavior is about the same - worse actually! Much more envy, greed, sloth, gluttony, pride, wrath and well not so much of the lust - just the deadly sins that end in murder. Better to be Evans!
First we have Tommy & Tuppence and now around 14:15 we have Miss Marple, Joan Hickson! Wonderful to enjoy these wonderful British actors in their various roles. Thank you for sharing this well done version.
I love this British ca.1980s genre and style of production if it is well done, which they usually are, and this indeed is. It's a great weekend afternoon's entertainment. Thank you for posting it. I hope I can find more like it. I never tire of them.
I love how Francesca Annie takes "Lady Frances" right up to the very edge of being annoyingly posh, and then stops, giving a performance that is truly wonderful.
I fist saw this series on PBS in San Francisco when I was a teenager. It influenced so much of the rest of my life. I'm 57b now and STILL utterly adore it! Why that year...or a year later, I took a class in British History at CCSF (City College of San Francisco) to learn more about the fascinating country from these movies. Now, thanks to a TH-cam that wasn't even imagined when I first saw this I have found it again. Good to know I haven't changed all that much.
It's Miss Marple!!!! At around 13:30, the divine Joan Hickson (who to my, and many ppl's minds is the definitive Miss Marple), is playing the loud, brash, obnoxious character Mrs. Rivington, lol! So fun to see her playing such an utterly different type ;)
Apparently when the Margaret Rutherford Marple films were being made Agatha Christie felt that Joan Hickson would have been better in the role. She was right too!
@@cupidstunt70 Yes, she was - absolutely right, to the nth degree!!! Though I do also adore the indomitable Margaret Rutherford, and her version. Still, I consider it a sort of "comedia buffo" take on the story, which whilst insane, ends up being a ton of fun. Hence, I wholly understand and agree with Christie, because I don't consider it a faithful or serious interpretation of the beloved detective series. I am glad however, that Christie, though not changing her mind per se, did soften in her objections to Rutherford's cockamamie, all too fun movies.
Sometimes, (although I do watch modern or american stuff too) something in me craves something that is quintessentially BRITISH and traditional to watch. This wonderful movie, its words and settings and its perfect actors satisfied that craving admirably. It is British and traditional, beautiful and elegant in its overall character without being annoyingly precious or affected as some of these sort of programmes can be.
Helen Day, I know exactly what you mean. I don't know about you, but by the second episode I developed a strong craving for an afternoon tea with warm scones, clotted cream and jam, which I enjoyed several times in England a number of years ago. I really wish I could have the chance to live there.
This movie came out just before James Warwick (Bobby Jones) and Francesca Annis ( Lady Frankie) turned up in another Series by Agatha Christie - " Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime " as Tuppence Beresford and Warwick as Tommy Beresford - a married couple and Private Investigators. Another really fun series with these two. One would think they Really enjoyed one another.
All in all - the two have played opposite one another at multiple times: Warwick as her second husband in the biographical min-series Lillie (1978); as a pair of amateur sleuths in Agatha Christie's Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1980); and detective couple Tommy and Tuppence in both The Secret Adversary (1983) and Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime (1983).
Lovely! I really apreciate the introductory summary. Great help for whom English is not our primary lenguage. Please carry on so! Best regards.from Chile!
What does it mean to have a “Sloan Ranger” accent? Is it rich people? I remember Princess Diana was called a Sloan Ranger before she married prince Charles. The news in America said something about it being the group of friends she was in. I could be remembering wrong b-c I was 13 at the time, but VERY interested in Princess Diana.
Francesca Annis’ wardrobe could easily be worn today by Katherine, duchess of Cambridge. Very classic, lovely designs, most of them in polkadot fabric.
Wonderful, wet and cold outside, log fire blazing away, tea and scones with home made figgy jam, dogs all sleeping me curled watching with Glee!! hahah lovely ending, will savour part 3 ! Thank you!
I read this years ago, I remember how much I liked the personalities of the characters. Wondering what "Why didn't they ask Evans? " meant kept me intrigued throughout.
its so typical for the English to attempt insults at all foreigners by virtue of them simply not being English...oh but she's American you know...but Manuel is from Spain you know... Australians are so abc...they're Greek you know...very typical of the lowest level of English humour
@@mckavitt i don't expect it was a joke. After a lifetime of hearing the English (not the British) make such comments, not to mention watch tellie or listen to older people speak. Ever since colonisation the English have used the you're "foreign" statement to reassert their superiority over anybody. You've only to read any poirot or miss Marple story. Not to mention any travel shows. The mentality is embedded in English culture and imbues everything they say. It's absurd
@@jasondavid5975 You're claiming the English generalise and yet you are generalising. Far from every English person, now, in the 21st century, thinks like that. Yes, it used to be endemic and some still do, but not all. The class snobbery of Christie's day is what gets to me and it can be seen portrayed in these programmes.
I'll tell ye what, the next time I'm in my dodgy car and in need of a few quid I'll willingly kiss the gate wall of a handsome wealthy fella's house just to chance my luck!
Yes- I was looking at the actress and I was thinking "Who is that ?" and you know when you recognise the voice but in a different context? and it throws you? Well it throws me anyway !
! So far 2 former Monty Python women. firstly Connie Booth,wife of John Cleese and 2, The old woman was tortured in the comfy chair and a soft pillow in "The Spanish Inquisition".ALSO the hero looks as if he might be the twin of Michael Palin."Nooobody expects the...."oooh let's start again"
Where's Mrs Marple ? Frankie's fit enough to play a few sets of tennis, so I think she should have been sent on her way long ago... Is that car (43.37) a Duesenberg ?
I really do like this program. I just finished part 1 on how they had the the scheme with the car, Now she's in the house flirting with the rich kid. Thanks for the upload I'm enjoying them so far.
I nearly gave this a miss, during the first episode 😮. Frankie and Bobby are spiffing old 😮😱 chap. If Frankie, wasn't in it, not SURE if I'd WATCHED IT 😮. Very entertaining. CAN'T beat David Sachet, Poirot. No no no Mon Ami BOM 🤗💓🌺 love him. Waiting to see this miss Marple 😢
Ziad, ask Aida if she knew the Khdeirs in Atlanta? I think they lived in Marietta? Their son was arrested in Palestine, but now returned home to TAMPA! I'd like to know if Aida knows them or how to get in touch with them. Mentioned in the report was Shufat, where Jim Rogers and I went and where some of the Khdeirs went as well. I'm sick of what is happening in Gaza - crimes against humanity, kids from babies to teen ages. Such criminal behaviour should give the U.S. cause to stop all aid to Israel, which they do NOT need anyhow. Those billions are needed HERE not a foreign country. Jean
Ziad Suidan Well, she should get the case solved in no time! She (Joan Hickson, I mean) was even younger in _Murder She Said_, an adaptation of _4:50__ from Paddington_ with Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple.
Ziad Suidan Funnily enough, this is only 4 years before the first of the classic Marple films. How did they make Joan Hickson up to look naturally decades older than she does here?!
Beautiful fashions on fashionable people. Beautiful settings for ugly problems. The usual and then: Morphine and opioid addictions have been a problem for a very long time . The Pastor and his son relationship are charming, funny and quite common.
As a person who knows Quite abit about being hooked on Morphine/Opiates (as a cancer patient), the portrayal the addict old man is putting on is far from real. It may be true that they have those mood swings, sleepless nights and such. But food is something that doesn't follow a set time. They don't sit down to eat at a set time, nor would they care to dress for the occasion. BUT - since very few in the World understand drug addictions - who cares.
Different time, class and propriety besides which there are various degrees of addiction. Poor chap probably didn't eat much and left the dinner table frequently.
In that era (with few of today's distractions), house parties were common, such that you knew a lot of other aristos, and they in turn knew (and could vouch for) some aristo you hadn't yet met. So letting Frankie stay wasn't like inviting a stranger into their home.
Max Linder yes it seems odd, once she was revovered, which would take a day, why did she continue to keep going back, sitting with them at mealtimes, and just lounging atound and listening to their private conversations, just looked like sponging off them for as long as she could, would a lady act in such a way?
she's also young and gorgeous and interesting and they're in the middle of nowhere. an extra plate at dinner is little to pay for any distraction from the boredom...before mobile phones,internet, Amazon,etc
Different era. The upper class prided itself on knowing the "who's who' of other nobility. It was an unwritten law of ettiquette that the "lord of the manor" extended hospitality to those who were in distress until they could fend for themselves or were recovered. Part of "noblesse oblige"(hope I spelled that correctly). Totally believable for that era & before.
Rachel's Remedies We just watched the Cohen brothers version of True Grit and had to put on the subtitles. Between Jeff Bridges dialogue (that was supposed to be how 19th century Southerners spoke) and his overly quiet mumblings we couldn’t understand half of what he was saying.
I can't imagine joan hickson plays this role, i knew her from her marvelous role as miss marble in longe series by itv in the 80s ! But seeing her as a playful lady was funny ! That doesn't become her
Neil Miller so man6 of Agatha Christie’s plots are centred around circumstances where the rich are invited to stay in other rich people’s country houses for free.
This is the end of the second hour episode and I am sssoooo bored it's not funny..... too slow and well, boring, I won't be watching another one I have no interest in knowing what happens........
I am a big fan of Agatha Christie's books and the filmatisations based on them, but I dare say this adaptation is just horribly tedious. Incredibly slow and unnecessarily long. Halfway through the convoluted mess one can hardly remember where it all started. The whole thing begins to revolve around itself and stagnates, and one loses all interest in the whole affair. I haven't read the book, maybe it is more riveting.
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Always long to live in this place and time until I realize in all probability I would be the cook or maid
Same here.
Very few were at the top of the heap!
Yeah😀😀
Exactly. It’s a small world, an island really and not at all diverse or inclusive, strictly hierarchical with anything resembling passion carefully redacted. Only foreigners are passionate. Maybe that’s what we colonials find so relaxing, the unreality, the nothing to do with us-ness. What’s interesting is the human behavior is about the same - worse actually! Much more envy, greed, sloth, gluttony, pride, wrath and well not so much of the lust - just the deadly sins that end in murder. Better to be Evans!
Ha! Funny! I've often thought the same thing!
First we have Tommy & Tuppence and now around 14:15 we have Miss Marple, Joan Hickson! Wonderful to enjoy these wonderful British actors in their various roles.
Thank you for sharing this well done version.
this is great work....Francesca Annis is brilliant. The costumes/fashion are especially brilliant in this film.
I love this British ca.1980s genre and style of production if it is well done, which they usually are, and this indeed is. It's a great weekend afternoon's entertainment. Thank you for posting it. I hope I can find more like it. I never tire of them.
I love how Francesca Annie takes "Lady Frances" right up to the very edge of being annoyingly posh, and then stops, giving a performance that is truly wonderful.
I think she gave Lady Frances depth and a sense of irony
I fist saw this series on PBS in San Francisco when I was a teenager. It influenced so much of the rest of my life. I'm 57b now and STILL utterly adore it! Why that year...or a year later, I took a class in British History at CCSF (City College of San Francisco) to learn more about the fascinating country from these movies. Now, thanks to a TH-cam that wasn't even imagined when I first saw this I have found it again. Good to know I haven't changed all that much.
It's Miss Marple!!!! At around 13:30, the divine Joan Hickson (who to my, and many ppl's minds is the definitive Miss Marple), is playing the loud, brash, obnoxious character Mrs. Rivington, lol! So fun to see her playing such an utterly different type ;)
You should watch some of the films she was in!
Only 4 years between this and the first miss marple episode! She looks so different!
Apparently when the Margaret Rutherford Marple films were being made Agatha Christie felt that Joan Hickson would have been better in the role. She was right too!
@@kathleencampbell1138 I should, I'll look them up. Thanks for the tip. I can't imagine why I'd not thought to do so earlier =)
@@cupidstunt70 Yes, she was - absolutely right, to the nth degree!!! Though I do also adore the indomitable Margaret Rutherford, and her version. Still, I consider it a sort of "comedia buffo" take on the story, which whilst insane, ends up being a ton of fun. Hence, I wholly understand and agree with Christie, because I don't consider it a faithful or serious interpretation of the beloved detective series. I am glad however, that Christie, though not changing her mind per se, did soften in her objections to Rutherford's cockamamie, all too fun movies.
I like it when Bobby says sorry to the rabbits!!!! 😂
With that mustache, Bobby is the spitting image of Michael Palin. I keep expecting him to break out in laughter
I expected him to grab Connie Booth and sing "I'm a lumberjack..."
Hahaha I recognized Joan Hickson’s dear voice straight away…… so delightful to see sweet Miss Marple dress up and smoke
Sometimes, (although I do watch modern or american stuff too) something in me craves something that is quintessentially BRITISH and traditional to watch. This wonderful movie, its words and settings and its perfect actors satisfied that craving admirably. It is British and traditional, beautiful and elegant in its overall character without being annoyingly precious or affected as some of these sort of programmes can be.
Helen Day, I know exactly what you mean. I don't know about you, but by the second episode I developed a strong craving for an afternoon tea with warm scones, clotted cream and jam, which I enjoyed several times in England a number of years ago. I really wish I could have the chance to live there.
You MUST watch "Heavy Weather" with Peter O'Toole and many other greats - reahly quintessential!
a good British " who done it" often feels like visiting an old friend. The stories don't always change but there is a comfort to the interaction
@@truderenken3248 thanks for suggestion. I just looked up the tv program. I might even read the book, too. 😊
This is so much more watchable than most of the stuff produced today. Thanks for the upload.
+Russell Hughes Could not agree more Russell.
DITTO. Almost all such classic stuff are better than the crap today.
That's why we call them 'classic'.
Such a reprieve from today’s depressing fashion young people wear today.
This might be my favorite rendition of an Agatha Christie book ever. The acting, the scenery, the clothes!!
It sure is but it has a strong whiff of a Jeeves and Woostervepisode.
I agree. I also enjoy The Seven Dials Mystery (with James Warwick), as well as the entire Partners in Crime series with Warwick and Annis.
@@charlesvanderhoog7056no no no you having a LAUGH 😂🤣.
Poirot, Mon Ami BOM 😮😎💯
"Now I know how a mouse must feel, when a cat won't kill it"
What a line !!!
Thanks so uch for this video - love the series. Such a treat as well to see Joan Hickson in this video - thought she was superb!
I am liking it better & better. More rhythm to the dialogues & the development of the story.
This movie came out just before James Warwick (Bobby Jones) and Francesca Annis ( Lady Frankie) turned up in another Series by Agatha Christie - " Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime " as Tuppence Beresford and Warwick as Tommy Beresford - a married couple and Private Investigators. Another really fun series with these two. One would think they Really enjoyed one another.
All in all - the two have played opposite one another at multiple times: Warwick as her second husband in the biographical min-series Lillie (1978); as a pair of amateur sleuths in Agatha Christie's Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1980); and detective couple Tommy and Tuppence in both The Secret Adversary (1983) and Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime (1983).
Joan Hickson was a lovely surprise in this!
Yes, didn't she sound like Mrs. Slocum!
When Joan Hickson turned up dressed like that I spat coffee all over my monitor. The weird thing was I hadn't been drinking coffee.
Proof that Joan Hickson wasn’t at all type cast as Miss Marple, the best Miss Marple tho’ she was. Love her whenever I see her. And always different.
Great fantasy material, oh I wish I was rich, living in the 1920's and knew these folk. Thanks for uploading.
Henry digskills Firmly set in the 1930s not the 1920s.
Look at the dress to tell era
13:15 Joan Hickson cast against type as a society matron tippling in the afternoon.
Lovely! I really apreciate the introductory summary. Great help for whom English is not our primary lenguage. Please carry on so! Best regards.from Chile!
Your English is far better than Ghetto trash speak.
Joan Hickson doing her best "Sloan Ranger" Mayfair accent and making like Syrie Maugham in a white on white flat!
Didn't she look as if she was having fun?
@@janhall1641 Hickson is a scream. Fantastic performance.
What does it mean to have a “Sloan Ranger” accent? Is it rich people? I remember Princess Diana was called a Sloan Ranger before she married prince Charles. The news in America said something about it being the group of friends she was in. I could be remembering wrong b-c I was 13 at the time, but VERY interested in Princess Diana.
I liked the fluffy white cat.
Love Joan Hixon in this!!! Brilliant!
I'm enjoying the show, but the plot makes little sense. What reason did Frankie give for remaining in that house after her 'recovery"?
And what a wardrobe she had tucked into her handbag.
I guess her unintentional hosts couldn't bear to part with her. Although their motives at the beginning of this episode seem menacing.
@@annastinehammersdottir1290 the host lent her some dresses
The waitress from Fawlty Towers was lonely.
Woman behind the wheel. It's hardly natural, isn't it? LOVE IT!!
Can't you handle a confident woman?
Oh I just love this!!!
Francesca Annis’ wardrobe could easily be worn today by Katherine, duchess of Cambridge. Very classic, lovely designs, most of them in polkadot fabric.
Is Badger, Charlie, in Darling Buds of May ? If so he’s a great actor.
Wonderful, wet and cold outside, log fire blazing away, tea and scones with home made figgy jam, dogs all sleeping me curled watching with Glee!! hahah lovely ending, will savour part 3 ! Thank you!
Maria Wilson can I come over and watch with you! The atmosphere sounds perfect for this movie!
@@karanferrell6869
HA HA
Maria Wilson - a perfect setting for watching a murder mystery : )
I read this years ago, I remember how much I liked the personalities of the characters. Wondering what "Why didn't they ask Evans? " meant kept me intrigued throughout.
_He was so quiet and moody on the way home, but then of course he's a Canadian--Canadians are so awfully touchy don't you think?_
😂
its so typical for the English to attempt insults at all foreigners by virtue of them simply not being English...oh but she's American you know...but Manuel is from Spain you know... Australians are so abc...they're Greek you know...very typical of the lowest level of English humour
jason david Can’t take a simple joke? (I’m American, but find that comment AWFULLY funny).
@@mckavitt i don't expect it was a joke. After a lifetime of hearing the English (not the British) make such comments, not to mention watch tellie or listen to older people speak. Ever since colonisation the English have used the you're "foreign" statement to reassert their superiority over anybody. You've only to read any poirot or miss Marple story. Not to mention any travel shows. The mentality is embedded in English culture and imbues everything they say. It's absurd
@@jasondavid5975 You're claiming the English generalise and yet you are generalising. Far from every English person, now, in the 21st century, thinks like that. Yes, it used to be endemic and some still do, but not all. The class snobbery of Christie's day is what gets to me and it can be seen portrayed in these programmes.
I love the artwork at the beginning and the end of the episodes.
Just watched everything on this channel. Very enjoyable. Wish there was more. Thank you.
I'll tell ye what, the next time I'm in my dodgy car and in need of a few quid I'll willingly kiss the gate wall of a handsome wealthy fella's house just to chance my luck!
And look at Joan Hickson at 13:50 into this. Amazing for a shift in character from Miss. Marple to this Mrs. Rivington. Amazing !!
And Polly from Fawlty Towers!
Yes- I was looking at the actress and I was thinking "Who is that ?" and you know when you recognise the voice but in a different context? and it throws you? Well it throws me anyway !
skb713 it's not unusual for an English actor to be in other English tv series
Inura Facititia her evil twin 😎
Inura Facititia she is quite the actress 😏
Am watching everything on your wonderful channel ~ Thank you for sharing 💖✨
Those lovely brown eyes of F.A.
Oh my heart!
eric porter - soames of the forsyte saga
This was a 1934 novel: UK title , Why Didn't They Ask Evans? And US title, The Boomerang Clue.
That’s what I thought :)
The lady playing Mrs. Rivington later plays Ms. Marple.
! So far 2 former Monty Python women. firstly Connie Booth,wife of John Cleese and 2, The old woman was tortured in the comfy chair and a soft pillow in "The Spanish Inquisition".ALSO the hero looks as if he might be the twin of Michael Palin."Nooobody expects the...."oooh let's start again"
13:30 Joan Hickson alias Miss Marple
dr. nich., prof. moriarty, sherlock holmes?
13:16 Joan Hickson, Miss Marple herself!
Where's Mrs Marple ?
Frankie's fit enough to play a few sets of tennis, so I think she should have been sent on her way long ago...
Is that car (43.37) a Duesenberg ?
I´m just watching "Why didn´t they ask Evans ?". I´ve read it years ago but I´m enjoying this film a lot ! Thank you for the SUBTITLES !!!
I really do like this program. I just finished part 1 on how they had the the scheme with the car,
Now she's in the house flirting with the rich kid.
Thanks for the upload I'm enjoying them so far.
Perfect
Francesca Annis was such a babe.
I nearly gave this a miss, during the first episode 😮.
Frankie and Bobby are spiffing old 😮😱 chap.
If Frankie, wasn't in it, not SURE if I'd WATCHED IT 😮.
Very entertaining.
CAN'T beat David Sachet, Poirot.
No no no Mon Ami BOM 🤗💓🌺 love him.
Waiting to see this miss Marple 😢
Joan Hickson!!
I’m trying to find the first episode, this certainly isn’t it-I think?!
Oh, 😳 i DON'T KNOW 🤔 that woman, who is meant to be miss Marple 😢😂😅.
Unless, she the little cute old 😮😱 Lady.
Definitely Joan Hickson
People have choices about sticking kneedles into their veins..
...the innocent abused rabbits don't!
Oh,yes!!!It IS Miss Marple,Joan Hickson!!I didnt think this movie was previous!!
Thank you for uploading,it is great!!
I am not a hotel inspector Mr Fawlty!
this is one of my most favorite ever series! Thank you so much! Must have watched it about 30 times lol..🤩🥰
I love FrancescA Annis. Bright star in a murder mystery. So lovely.
Joan Hickson is quite flamboyant as Mrs Rivington, in contrast to Jane Marple.
the best ms marple a bit younger...
Ziad, ask Aida if she knew the Khdeirs in Atlanta? I think they lived in Marietta? Their son was arrested in Palestine, but now returned home to TAMPA! I'd like to know if Aida knows them or how to get in touch with them. Mentioned in the report was Shufat, where Jim Rogers and I went and where some of the Khdeirs went as well. I'm sick of what is happening in Gaza - crimes against humanity, kids from babies to teen ages. Such criminal behaviour should give the U.S. cause to stop all aid to Israel, which they do NOT need anyhow. Those billions are needed HERE not a foreign country. Jean
Ziad Suidan Well, she should get the case solved in no time! She (Joan Hickson, I mean) was even younger in _Murder She Said_, an adaptation of _4:50__ from Paddington_ with Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple.
Ziad Suidan Funnily enough, this is only 4 years before the first of the classic Marple films. How did they make Joan Hickson up to look naturally decades older than she does here?!
Yes she must have had good make up to age her so well , loved her , she was a great actress, underated sadly x
My vote for 21st century dentistry 🦷+medical care🩺
2 hours and it's not over. this is agony. it's watching ice melt. enough.
Miss Hickson simply ate up her scene. What an actor!
The best
En castellano y hablado 😡🇨🇱
Hmmmmm - Roger's explanation - Frankie lets him off the hook big time!
This is where I am NOW. Part 3. ---21/ 9/ 2017
Beautiful fashions on fashionable people. Beautiful settings for ugly problems. The usual and then: Morphine and opioid addictions have been a problem for a very long time . The Pastor and his son relationship are charming, funny and quite common.
Evans didn't know about it.
Wonderful to see the lovely Joan Hickson (who went on to play Miss Marple in the 80's and early 90's) as Mrs. Rivington!
Enjoyed the movie. Thamks.
Part 3
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There is a delicious sort of weirdness in seeing Joan "Miss Marple" Hickson in a 'dumb blonde' role. ;)
I only know Doris Hare from On The Buses, what a wonderful way to see her other acting skills. ❤️
omg lolsies love this vid tots amzeballs ha
lol
As a person who knows Quite abit about being hooked on Morphine/Opiates (as a cancer patient), the portrayal the addict old man is putting on is far from real. It may be true that they have those mood swings, sleepless nights and such. But food is something that doesn't follow a set time. They don't sit down to eat at a set time, nor would they care to dress for the occasion. BUT - since very few in the World understand drug addictions - who cares.
Different time, class and propriety besides which there are various degrees of addiction. Poor chap probably didn't eat much and left the dinner table frequently.
You can't speak for everyone!
This is too over the top for me. 😨
What excuse is Frankie using to stay at this place for so long?
She’s Titled. An elite and the lady of the house wants company. The elites stick together
Helen Day you are quite correct ✅🇨🇦
Amazing series
Such fun
Excellent
THESE PEOPLE TAKE HER IN BRCAUSE OF A SMALL TITLE & FEED HER NOW SHE IS A FRIEND ...........????????
In that era (with few of today's distractions), house parties were common, such that you knew a lot of other aristos, and they in turn knew (and could vouch for) some aristo you hadn't yet met. So letting Frankie stay wasn't like inviting a stranger into their home.
Max Linder yes it seems odd, once she was revovered, which would take a day, why did she continue to keep going back, sitting with them at mealtimes, and just lounging atound and listening to their private conversations, just looked like sponging off them for as long as she could, would a lady act in such a way?
Normal for the upper classes in those times
she's also young and gorgeous and interesting and they're in the middle of nowhere. an extra plate at dinner is little to pay for any distraction from the boredom...before mobile phones,internet, Amazon,etc
Different era. The upper class prided itself on knowing the "who's who' of other nobility. It was an unwritten law of ettiquette that the "lord of the manor" extended hospitality to those who were in distress until they could fend for themselves or were recovered. Part of "noblesse oblige"(hope I spelled that correctly). Totally believable for that era & before.
how many episodes are there?
4:59
Quit
Love these British soaps even though I don’t understand everything they say!
Rachel's Remedies We just watched the Cohen brothers version of True Grit and had to put on the subtitles. Between Jeff Bridges dialogue (that was supposed to be how 19th century Southerners spoke) and his overly quiet mumblings we couldn’t understand half of what he was saying.
@@Pinksalt8 I think you Brits speak various dialects. I can't understand a damn thing you say and I need subtitles all the time.
Hate ads
Would you rather pay for the shows. They have to fund this somehow.
When Bobby wears that mustache the actor Neil Patrick Harris
I can't imagine joan hickson plays this role, i knew her from her marvelous role as miss marble in longe series by itv in the 80s ! But seeing her as a playful lady was funny ! That doesn't become her
unlikely plot woman crashes into wall and stays in house for ever free!
Neil Miller so man6 of Agatha Christie’s plots are centred around circumstances where the rich are invited to stay in other rich people’s country houses for free.
yeah back then all aristocrats and esp titled nobility were all extended family...closing ranks so to speak,rather typical for the times
WOW Joan lady as Ms. Marple---never saw her as anything other than Ms. Marple. Don't like her as the pretentious lady.
EJ Sherwood Joan Hickson is an actress!
She was an amazing actress!
This is the end of the second hour episode and I am sssoooo bored it's not funny..... too slow and well, boring, I won't be watching another one I have no interest in knowing what happens........
Different time scale. Now a days, exciting things must happen every
5 seconds. Like action games.
I am a big fan of Agatha Christie's books and the filmatisations based on them, but I dare say this adaptation is just horribly tedious. Incredibly slow and unnecessarily long. Halfway through the convoluted mess one can hardly remember where it all started. The whole thing begins to revolve around itself and stagnates, and one loses all interest in the whole affair. I haven't read the book, maybe it is more riveting.