Michael is working as a chauffeur but wants to get ahead in life despite his poor background and the heavy hand of his highly religious mother, who tells him that God is forever watching on his actions. The first adaptation of the book came in the shape of a British film from 1972 starring Hywell Bennett, Hayley Mills, Britt Ekland and in virtually his last role (it was released after his death), George Sanders. “There’s no luck for them as meddles with Gipsy’s Acre” Submission devoted to this book at the Doing Dewey blog – for links, click here. Meme at Sweet Freedom, and the second half of Katie’s 2014 Book to Movie Challenge The following review is submitted for Todd Mason’s Tuesday’s Overlooked Film On the face of it, this unusually ‘psychological’ of Christie’s books would seem to be a poor fit for the series – does it work? And how does it compare to the earlier cinema adaptation? This is the 23rd two-hour film to be made in the series and the tenth to be adapted from a non-Marple source. As the sleuth only features in a dozen novels and twenty short stories, the production company have been expanding the canon quite considerably in this way.

Endless Night, among the best of Agatha Christie’s later novels, is the latest to be ‘Marple-ised’ – that is to say, adapted for the ongoing Marple TV series by inserting Jane Marple into a story where she did not originally appear.

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