Synopsis
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced (1985) is available to watch online on iFILM. The BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1950 novel stars Joan Hickson, whose quietly precise portrayal of Miss Marple is widely regarded as the definitive screen version of the character.
A curious notice appears in the Chipping Cleghorn village gazette: a murder will take place at Little Paddocks on Friday, October 29th, at 6:30 p.m. The locals take it for a parlour game and show up expecting entertainment. When the appointed hour arrives, a body turns up — and Miss Marple begins asking the kinds of questions that make comfortable people very uncomfortable.
Christie wrote the novel in the early postwar years, and the unsettled mood beneath the cosy village surface gives the story more edge than the format suggests. Director David Giles keeps that undercurrent intact. Stream Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced (1985) online on iFILM.
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