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Agatha Christie Collection featuring Helen Hayes as Miss Marple (A Caribbean Mystery / Murder Is Easy / Murder with Mirrors)
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	List Price: $39.98 Our Price: $33.99 You Save: $5.99 *Features* • Box set • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 22 October, 1983 DVD Release : 12 September, 2006
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Agatha Christie Collection featuring Helen Hayes as Miss Marple (A Caribbean Mystery / Murder Is Easy / Murder with Mirrors) description
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

Agatha Christie Collection featuring Helen Hayes as Miss Marple (A Caribbean Mystery / Murder Is Easy / Murder with Mirrors) Customer Reviews

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Workmanlike mystery fare good for a modest evening's entertainment

Of the three television movies featured in this set, I've only seen "Murder With Mirrors" (via a DVD rental service), and I felt it was pleasantly watchable. Positives are a genuinely clever mystery and lots of notable actors, including Helen Hayes and Bette Davis. Not-so-positive aspects include generally bland photography and direction and a too-cute musical score that regularly seeks to remind us that- fiery deaths and other unpleasant ends notwithstanding- we shouldn't take the murders all that seriously and should just enjoy the puzzle at hand. I'm guessing that the other two movies in this set don't deviate too far from my description of this one.

Of the two acting greats mentioned above, Helen Hayes does most of the heavy lifting and carries "Murder With Mirrors" almost single-handedly (though I also enjoyed the feisty redhead who chased men and drove too fast). Ms. Davis, alas, is trotted out every fifteen minutes or so and capably delivers a few lines, though one gets the feeling that she was there for little else than to up the pedigree of the production. Thankfully, Ms. Davis' later performance in the theatrical film "The Whales of August" demonstrated that she still had the acting chops to handle long sequences and complicated characterization.

"Murder With Mirrors" features a clean, full-screen TV image and there are no extras. I suspect similar is the case regarding the other two movies in this set.

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