POCKET FULL OF RYE JULIA MCKENZIE CAST PRO
Nonetheless - perhaps because they didn’t rev up the drama for the climax - ITV gives us not just a scene showing Adele Fortescue and her golf pro in adulterous action in a broom closet. She’s an adult, she wrote for adults, and adults all know what they do behind closed doors. Agatha wrote very passionate novels but she kept the bedroom shenanigans offstage. No escape for him, thanks to a convenient lorry driver.Īdele Fortescue getting a lesson from the golf pro.I’m unsure about the three gratuitous sex scenes. He’ll suffer mentally and emotionally right up until the crown hangs him, as he realizes that he’s not nearly as clever as he thinks he is. Here, despite the lack of drama (Miss Marple reads a letter) you get a subtle reward, true to the text. The Joan Hickson version cheated on the ending to add drama and made Lance Fortescue into an entirely different character as a result. In A Pocket Full of Rye, Miss Marple deduces the crime like a paleontologist working out the complete body and lifestyle of a dinosaur based on a few teeth and some toe-bones. What works in a novel doesn’t generate the drama that a film needs. In some cases, the improvements do improve the movie. It also, unlike other ITV films didn’t “improve” Agatha’s own text by making up complications out of whole cloth. It tightened the plot, keeping it focused on the Fortescue family and their circle.
POCKET FULL OF RYE JULIA MCKENZIE CAST MOVIE
In this case, every minor deletion contributed to a better movie overall. ITV Productions veer all over the map when it comes to adapting Agatha’s novels. Like Angela Lansbury herself in The Mirror Crack’d (1980), Julie McKenzie didn’t make me think Edwardian-era spinster. I kept seeing Jessica Fletcher and not Miss Marple! Joan Hickson and Geraldine McEwan both fit my mental picture of Miss Marple. The Joan Hickson version cheated on this issue. The ending was spot-on, with the post office contributing to the mystery by misdirecting the mail. I really enjoyed this film, Julia McKenzie’s first outing as Miss Marple. Quality of movie on its own: 4 poison bottles. Miss Marple gets one of Inspector Neele’s scenes. Miss Ramsbottom was eliminated, as were a few minor housemaids, secretaries, and such. ITV Productions is unreliable when it comes to fidelity to text but in this case, they were virtually letter-perfect. Fidelity to text: 4 and 1/2 poison bottles.
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