Richard was on Lorraine's show to promote Robin Hood series 2 but there is quite a bit of discussion about Miss Marple and the challenges of playing a character confined to a wheelchair.įilming Location: Nether Winchendon House.Miss Marple did not appear in the novel. GMTV interview with Lorraine Kelly 3rd October 2007 Click the image to play/download.Īrticle in Reveal Magazine 29 September 2007 Richard is speaking at the start of this trailer. Of course, Miss Marple solves the case, and it is revealed that the murderer was indeed acting under the influence of Jacko Argyle.Ĭourtesy of Yorkshirewench. However, the true killer becomes restless, striking once more. None of them have a cast iron alibi either. None of them miss having Rachel around and indeed the family functions better off without her, thereby ensuring that they all have a motive for her murder. Meanwhile, Tina and Micky keep their distance. Hester is on medication for emotional problems, Mary lives at Sunny Point with her resentful and money-hungry husband Philip and Bobby strives desperately to hold the family together. Miss Marple discovers that not only were all of the Argyle children adopted, but that Rachel was not liked by any of them. The doctor states that he was surprised when Jacko killed his mother, not believing him capable of such an act since he was too cowardly to do the deed himself. He mistakenly assumed that the family would be grateful without realising the implications that his news brings, but despite their recriminations he decides to prove the young man’s innocence with the assistance of Miss Marple.Īrthur visits the retired local doctor, Dr MacMaster, to ask him about Jacko. The family must come to terms with the fact that suspicion falls upon each of them, and that one of them is the real murderer.Īrthur Calgary quickly realises that his news has reopened old wounds and the family are upset with him for interrupting their now happy lives. He was with him at the time of the murder, having picked him up as a hitchhiker. During the evening of the family gathering, a young doctor named Arthur Calgary, who has returned from an Arctic expedition, provides an alibi for Jacko. Gwenda invites her friend Miss Marple to the wedding at their home Sunny Point. Two years later, widowed Leo Argyle is engaged to his secretary Gwenda Vaughn. He was in deep debt and faced the threat of violence from his debtors but despite his pleas, she had refused him any money and he threatened to kill her. Jacko had a terrible row with his mother in her study just an hour and half before she was killed. Jacko Argyle, convicted of murdering his adoptive mother Rachel, was hanged while protesting his innocence. This adaptation by ITV deviates in several ways from the novel. It was adapted into a film in 1985 starring Donald Sutherland and a stage play in 2007. Some of the filming took place in Turville, Buckinghamshire, which is also the village used for all the outside locations for The Vicar of Dibley.Īgatha Christie's novel was published in 1958 and considered one of the best of her later works, also one of the author's favourites of her own novels. Ordeal by Innocence was the third story out of a total of four in this series. This was the third series of Miss Marple filmed by ITV, starring Geraldine McEwan in the title role. This 2007 drama ensured that Richard fulfilled many an actor's "required remit" of appearing in at least one Miss Marple episode and he was joined by a wonderful ensemble cast for the adapation of one of Christie's favourite novels. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Premieres 2012.Captain America: The First Avenger Gallery.
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