Throughout these four feature films, Marple is ultimately a clever confidant who is instantly trustworthy because of her soft-spoken demeanor and the way that she instinctively seems to know just when to ask certain questions at that eventually leads to solving the most difficult of cases. However, quickly we discover that instead of the Marple portrayed by some as a bit pushier and insistent- especially when dealing with the authorities- our new Jane Marple operates on the simple truth that people will tell an old woman anything.
Basically it's a bit more cheerful and mumbling yet self-consciously meek and therefore McKenzie's Marple as penned by the screenwriters adapting Christie's work for the four different directors employed for the titles in question at first seems like she's acting in stark contrast to the woman we've known on the page and in previous films. Although Marple fans may recall her as a cynical, tough-minded woman who doesn't faint at the sight of corpses or being held up at gunpoint in a standoff with an unstable suspect and we do see some of those qualities here, overall McKenzie's approach to Marple feels different. While she always fears the worst whenever she's brought in, she stumbles onto cases typically as a guest or when asked to put her amateur sleuthing skills to good use by a friend or acquaintance. Although fortunately for our sake, the Marple explanations always make far more sense to viewers than the ones rattled off (sometimes) via thirty minute near monologues by David Suchet's Hercule Poirot.
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In the set, Miss Jane Marple seeks to unmask the murderer(s) in the four given mysteries that comprise the series ( A Pocket Full of Rye, Murder is Easy, They Do It With Mirrors, and Why Didn't They Ask Evans?) as well as their modus operandi which are typically revealed in Christie fashion with a mind-boggling denouement. Routinely clocking in at a breakneck 93 minute running time, McKenzie is joined by a top-notch cast of familiar faces in supporting roles including Matthew Macfadyen, Joan Collins, Shirley Henderson, Rupert Graves, Anna Chancellor, Jemma Redgrave, Brian Cox, Helen Baxendale, Prunella Scales, Warren Clarke, Natalie Dormer, Rafe Spall, Samantha Bond and Liz White. With the release of its fourth series that coincides with the broadcast of the included works here in the states as part of PBS's Masterpiece Mystery!, once again we're presented with a quartet of high quality adaptations of feature-length standalone mysteries breathtakingly captured in cinematic 16x9 widescreen format and presented with Dolby Digital sound.
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