Customer Reviews

Geraldine McEwan Makes a Good Miss Marple - By: G. M. Mcclintock, 17 Oct 2006
I've been an Murder Myster fan from I was very young, growing up with a mother who watched Miss Marple, Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poriot, Murder She Wrote etc. So, it was a difficult not to get interested & become a fan of these programmes. But I must admit my favourite is Miss Marple the old granny type who pretends to be a dottery but is so not, & always seems to outwit the male detectives & solve the cases before they can even figure it out. My two favourite Miss Marple actresses have been of course Margaret Rutherford & Joan Hickson,in my book they were the two that best fitted the part. So you can imagine that I wasn't to impressed when I heard that there where some new remakes of Miss Marple cases like 4.50 From Paddington, The Bodyin the Library, A Murder Announced, The Moving Finger etc. There was an actress I'd never heard of playing Miss Marple, an actress called Geraldine McEwan & all I could think of was that they were going to ruin my favourite crime solver.

I hadn't ever planned on watching any of the new Miss Marples, but a friend watched them one of them & said it was really good, so she talked me into watching 4.50 from Paddington & I got a pleasant surprise because I really enjoyed it, there were a few obvious changes from the other Miss Marple Editions to this one, but the main thing was I wasnt disappointed. Geraldine McEwan makes a great Miss Marple, she gives the character a bit more spunk, & there's a bit more of a back story to Miss Marple's younger years which really makes each story better.

I love these ones so much that I've bought the box sets so I can watch them whenever I like, which is great.

Miss Marple's 4.50 From Paddington with Geraldine McEwan, starts off with a friend of Jane Marple's coming by train to visit with her for a bit before flying abroad to stay with a new friend for Christmas. On her way to St Mary Mead she sees someone strangling a woman on a passing train, she reports it to police who search the train but find no body,in true Marple fashion, Jane & her friend decide to take a little journey on the train that the murder took place on which was of course the 4.50 from Paddington, they get a map & some train timetables & try to find out if there's anywhere that the body could have been pushed off the train, & there is one spot near a place called Rutherford Hall & so begins the mystery.......