Agatha Christie Collection featuring Helen Hayes as Miss Marple (A Caribbean Mystery / Murder Is Easy / Murder with Mirrors) DVD
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: WARNER HOME VIDEO
EAN: 0012569820838
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledKoreanSubtitled
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: WARD82083D
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 12, 2006
Running Time: 276 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 22, 1983
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In a career that started in silent film in 1917 and ended in the mid-1980s with her splendid take on Miss Marple in this collection, Helen Hayes was inspirational to the end. Her performances in these made-for-television mysteries are absolutely spot-on as Agatha Christie's fearless genteel lady sleuth. This collection features three rollicking tales, Murder Is Easy costarring Bill Bixby, a still-radiant Olivia de Havilland, and a young Jonathan Pryce; A Caribbean Mystery, with Barnard Hughes and Swoosie Kurtz; and the grande-dame-duet Murder With Mirrors, with Hayes playing opposite her onetime real-life nemesis, Bette Davis. Mirrors alone is worth the price of the set, as Hayes is in fine form, completely un-vain and sweetly droll. As she heads toward a country manor to visit her "dear friend" Carrie Louise (Davis), she's informed of the vast changes that have undergone the estate; Carrie Louise's husband, a philanthropist, has decided to open the grounds to rehabilitate juvenile delinquents. As Miss Marple is being told some of the youthful offenders' stories, she's utterly unflappable. Told that one particular young man was caught flashing parishioners at St. Paul's, Hayes' Marple mutters, "We all must worship in our own way, I suppose." Davis, in one of her last film performances, plays a woman who may--or may not--be being slowly poisoned to death, but regardless is frail and slightly incoherent. Davis herself looks quite frail herself, and her line delivery seems a bit uncertain--perhaps extremely effective Method acting, or perhaps she was indeed as frail as she looks; either way, film fans won't want to miss this. It's chilling--and unforgettable. --A.T. Hurley
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Rating:  -
My wife and I enjoy Miss Marple and Helen Hayes does a good job, perhaps not as much as the old curmudgeon Margaret Rutherford, but nobody lives forever. Marple fans will enjoy this set.
Rating:  -
I must say, that these movies were not what I expected. My family and I are great agatha christie fans, but were disappointed in these productions. We didn't even finish watching Murder with Mirrors. Murder is Easy was the best of the bunch, but Helen Hayes plays just a small bit part right at the beginning. All in all, these were a disappointment.
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I love Helen Hayes and I love Miss Marple Mysteries, but this set was so disappointing. It reminds me of the typical 80s B rated movies. Maybe it's because I'm glad the 80s are over, but this series just seemed boring to me.
Rating:  -
This was a good attempt at an American Miss Marple but there are so many British examples that are far better. Not bad but in all things Marple I would leave it to the Brits.
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Writing, directing, acting --- all 3rd rate. Hayes is a particularly irritating Miss Marple. Lots of rattling on and on about nothing, playing coy, smiling sweetly way too much, and not much native intelligence, except when she steps in with completely off-the-wall total explanations of highly complex crimes without the least prelude to her insights. In this set, Helen Hayes comes off as a 3rd rate actress. Some of the interior locations are very beautiful but merely show, in their elegance, how ... Read More
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