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The Body in the Library is a 3-part 1984 television film adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1942 detective novel The Body in the Library, which was co-produced by the BBC and the A&E Network. The film uses an adapted screenplay by T. R. Bowen and was directed by Silvio Narizzano. Starring Joan Hickson in the title role, it was the first film presented in the British television series Miss Marple and premiered in three parts from 26 to 28 December 1984 on BBC One. In the United States the film was first broadcast on 4 January 1986 as a part of PBS's Mystery!. In his review in The New York Times, critic John J. O'Connor wrote: Miss Christie would no doubt approve of Joan Hickson, the veteran British character actress who plays Miss Marple... This BBC/Arts & Entertainment co-production offers an especially good example of Agatha Christie in adaptation. The characters are nicely realized and the suspense holds. Miss Hickson is lovely, neither as awesome as Miss Rutherford nor as overly cute as Helen Hayes. And the supporting cast is admirable, particularly Gwen Watford as Dolly and David Horovitch as Inspector Slack. As someone notes about the case, "you'll have to admit it has all the bizarre elements of a cheap thriller." Once hooked, you won't be able to turn it off.
The Body in the Library was repeated on BBC Four in September and October 2013.




Plot


Miss Marple helps her neighbours the Bantrys when a lovely young girl is found dead in their library. The girl is traced to a seaside resort and the desperate family of a wealthy old man.




Cast


Joan Hickson as Miss Marple
David Horovitch as Detective Inspector Slack
Gwen Watford as Dolly Bantry
Moray Watson as Colonel Bantry
Frederick Jaeger as Colonel Melchett
Valentine Dyall as Lorrimer
Anthony Smee as Basil Blake
Debbie Arnold as Dinah Lee
Andrew Cruickshank as Conway Jefferson
Ciaran Madden as Adelaide Jefferson
Keith Drinkel as Mark Gaskell
Hugh Walters as Mr Prescott
Jess Conrad as Raymond Starr
Trudie Styler as Josie Turner
John Moffatt as Edwards
Arthur Bostrom as George Bartlett
Stephen Churchett as Major Reeve
Astra Sheridan as Pamela Reeve
Raymond Francis as Sir Henry Clithering
Ian Brimble as Detective Constable Lake
John Bardon as PC Palk
Anne Rutter as Mrs Palk
Karin Foley as Mary
Colin Higgins as Malcolm
Sarah Whitlock as WPC
Sydney Livingstone as Mr Brogan
Andrew Downer as Peter Carmody
Sally Jane Jackson as Ruby Keene
Kathleen Breck as Bridget
Martyn Read as Hugo McLean
Karen Seacombe as Florrie Small
John Evans as Inch
Jacqui Munro as the body




References






External links


The Body in the Library at IMDb

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