Miss Marple does a great deal of investigation, collaborates with Lejeune, perfectly sensible policeman compared with some others in Miss Marple stories, and there is a gathering of all the characters and a revelation – certainly not what most audiences would be expecting! He is young, enthusiastic, played by JJ Feild. There is also a most suspicious character, with polio and in a wheelchair, Mr Venables (Nigel Planer) whom everybody dislikes and is an immediate target of suspicion.Ī neighbour of the dead woman is very friendly towards Miss Marple, telling her of his glimpsing a man with a scar on to his eye standing on the corner at the time of the murder of Father Gorman. There is also a disbarred lawyer (Bill Paterson) who arranges shady contracts for murder under the guise of betting whether the intended target will live on not. There is quite a range of characters, especially the three women who run The Pale Horse (including Pauline Collins and Susan Lynch) who, it is revealed, run some witchcraft experiences. When Miss Marple receives his letter and hears of Father Gorman’s death, she immediately becomes involved, gives a statement to Lejeune (Neil Pearson), but begins her own investigation, especially with the indication of a hotel in a remote village, The Pale Horse (and its reference to evil, death on the pale horse, revelation 6:8). He visits a dying woman, makes a list of names that she gives him, posts the names to Miss Marple and is mugged in the street. Interestingly, the first victim of a murder is a Catholic priest, Father Gorman, played by comedian and writer Nicholas Parsons.
This film is also close but a number of characters omitted and the name of the villain change from Zachary to Paul! The main characters, along with Miss Marple, still remain. There had been a television film in 1996 keeping close enough to the novel. Rather, the central character was historian Mark Easterbrook, along with the police inspector, Lejeune. The Pale Horse was a popular Agatha Christie story from the early 1960s, reviewers commenting that it was in the spirit of the Dennis Wheatley novels, popular at the time, with tones of the supernatural. Julia McKenzie, Nicholas Parsons, Noel Pearson, JJ Feild, Lynda Baron, Elizabeth Ryder, Jonathan Cake, Nigel Planer, Jenny Galloway, Susan Lynch, Pauline Collins, Tom Ward, Sarah Alexander, Holly Valence, Amy Manson. Peter Malone's Film Reviews and Resources.Michael Fallon Books and Audio-visual Resources.St Mary's Towers Retreat Centre, Douglas Park NSW.Missionary Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart.
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