Support Peschel Press at no cost to you! Buy the Joan Hickson box set. This week we reviewed TWO versions of “A Caribbean Mystery.” Click here to read about the Julia McKenzie version. Fidelity to text: 3 and 1/2 poison bottles. Minor characters are removed, new ones added (mainly island citizens), scenes added or deleted, […]
Support Peschel Press at no cost to you! Buy this movie from Amazon. This week we reviewed TWO versions of “A Caribbean Mystery.” Click here to read about the Joan Hickson version. Fidelity to text: 4 poison bottles. Unusual for an ITV production, this version actually follows Agatha’s storyline. You’ll get the usual removal or […]
Support Peschel Press at no cost to you! Buy the Joan Hickson box set. Fidelity to text: 3 stranglers Minor characters vanish and others are invented. The entire Martine girlfriend-or-wife-of-Edmund subplot is gone. One murder doesn’t occur although medical malpractice does, amounting to the same thing. Another murder is radically changed in its method. The […]
Support Peschel Press at no cost to you! Buy this movie from Amazon. Fidelity to text: 3 blunt objects. The original story is here: murder for hire, misdirection, witches, and cleverly disguised thallium. The major change is replacing Ariadne Oliver with Miss Marple and giving her most of the sleuthing (as opposed to Mark Easterbrook […]
Support Peschel Press at no cost to you! Buy this movie from Amazon. Fidelity to text: 2 poison bottles. To start with, Miss Marple never came near the novel yet here she is: a friend of the family who pretends to be Frankie’s governess. Names were changed, characters were deleted, combined or made up from […]
Support Peschel Press at no cost to you! Buy the Joan Hickson box set. Fidelity to text: 3 garottes. There are a number of changes. Small ones include a few name changes, many dropped characters, and changing the time setting which matters more than you think. Large ones include entirely new characters (which worked) and […]
Support Peschel Press at no cost to you! Buy this movie from Amazon. Fidelity to text: 2 and 1/2 knives. Plenty of changes, the most egregious being rewriting Carrie Louise’s personality and philanthropism and changing Lewis Serrocold’s motives. Other characters disappear altogether, get combined, or are raised from the dead (Carrie Louise’s husband #2). The […]
Support Peschel Press at no cost to you! Buy the Joan Hickson box set. Fidelity to text: 3 and 1/2 guns. Everything major is present and accounted for right up until the ending. The problem is way too much compression of the text. In addition, the time period was changed from the early 1960s to […]
Support Peschel Press at no cost to you! Buy the Joan Hickson box set. Fidelity to text: 4 garottes. The producers didn’t change much, other than shifting the film’s time period to the early 1950s and compressing and removing minor characters. Everything important is present and accounted for. Quality of movie on its own: 4 […]
Fidelity to text: 1 poison bottle. Where to start, where to start. There are so many choices. This novel (a personal favorite) never starred Miss Marple. Agatha had been writing Miss Marple novels and short stories for over a decade by the time she wrote Murder is Easy (1939) so if she’d wanted this to […]