Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
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- 1987
- 1h 42m
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7.6/10
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When a young bride moves into a country manor, long repressed childhood memories of witnessing a murder come to the surface.When a young bride moves into a country manor, long repressed childhood memories of witnessing a murder come to the surface.When a young bride moves into a country manor, long repressed childhood memories of witnessing a murder come to the surface.
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- TriviaAgatha Christie originally entitled the manuscript for this novel "Murder in Retrospect." However, in 1942 Dodd, Mead Co. published Christie's novel "Five Little Pigs" in the U.S. with the title "Murder in Retrospect" (it retained its original title in the U.K. publication). She then renamed the story "Cover Her Face" but had to change it yet again, when P.D. James published her début novel in 1962 with that title. The novel itself was written around 1940 as her last novel featuring Miss Marple (around the same time that she was writing "Curtain" which was the last Hercule Poirot); it was published in 1976 after her death.
- GoofsWhile Miss Marple is chatting with the gardener and using the sprayer to kill the bugs, she generously sprays the top of the wall where the gardener's coffee cup is resting. A few moments later he drinks from it, but apparently suffers no ill effects.
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Gwenda Reed: Why didn't *we* think of that?
Miss Jane Marple: Because you believed what he told you. It's very dangerous to believe people - I haven't for years.
- ConnectionsFollowed by Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel (1987)
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What a film! Watching 'Sleeping Murder' scared me more than any other Miss Marple film, mainly due to the suspense. The version with Joan Hickson was much, much better than that with Geraldine McEwan, mainly because the director stuck to the plot and didn't add a silly romance between the protagonist and her aide to supposedly warm the hearts of the audience. I thought that the house used was just right, and the gradual tension brought about by new discoveries (some gruesome) added a thrill to the plot. The main actress came across as a genuine damsel in distress and her husband loyal and devoted. One of the few films to make me frightened.
- francyndra
- Mar 29, 2006
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- Otterton, Budleigh Salterton, Devon, England, UK(on location)
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By what name was Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (1987) officially released in Canada in English?
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