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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0012569820838
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 12, 2006
Running Time: 276 minutes
Sales Rank: 11993
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 22, 1983
Editorial Review:
Description:
There may be no such thing as the perfect crime. But perfect crime entertainments are as easy as 1...2...3... in this star-packed set. First, sunshine and murder are just what the doctor orders when a physician-prescribed vacation plunges Miss Marple into A CARIBBEAN MYSTERY. MURDER IS EASY asks: Can a computer catch a killer? And MURDER WITH MIRRORS teams Leo (Rumpole) McKern with Hayes' Marple in a case of manor-house intrigue. Happy sleuthing!
Amazon.com:
In a career that started in silent film in 1917 and ended in the mid-1980s with her splendid take on Miss Marple in this collection, Helen Hayes was inspirational to the end. Her performances in these made-for-television mysteries are absolutely spot-on as Agatha Christie's fearless genteel lady sleuth. This collection features three rollicking tales, Murder Is Easy costarring Bill Bixby, a still-radiant Olivia de Havilland, and a young Jonathan Pryce; A Caribbean Mystery, with Barnard Hughes and Swoosie Kurtz; and the grande-dame-duet Murder With Mirrors, with Hayes playing opposite her onetime real-life nemesis, Bette Davis. Mirrors alone is worth the price of the set, as Hayes is in fine form, completely un-vain and sweetly droll. As she heads toward a country manor to visit her 'dear friend' Carrie Louise (Davis), she's informed of the vast changes that have undergone the estate; Carrie Louise's husband, a philanthropist, has decided to open the grounds to rehabilitate juvenile delinquents. As Miss Marple is being told some of the youthful offenders' stories, she's utterly unflappable. Told that one particular young man was caught flashing parishioners at St. Paul's, Hayes' Marple mutters, 'We all must worship in our own way, I suppose.' Davis, in one of her last film performances, plays a woman who may--or may not--be being slowly poisoned to death, but regardless is frail and slightly incoherent. Davis herself looks quite frail herself, and her line delivery seems a bit uncertain--perhaps extremely effective Method acting, or perhaps she was indeed as frail as she looks; either way, film fans won't want to miss this. It's chilling--and unforgettable. --A.T. Hurley
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Mediocre all around
Writing, directing, acting --- all 3rd rate. Hayes is a particularly irritating Miss Marple. Lots of rattling on and on about nothing, playing coy, smiling sweetly way too much, and not much native intelligence, except when she steps in with completely off-the-wall total explanations of highly complex crimes without the least prelude to her insights. In this set, Helen Hayes comes off as a 3rd rate actress. Some of the interior locations are very beautiful but merely show, in their elegance, how ... Read More
Rating:  - A Caribbean Mystery: Helen Hayes as Miss Marple
"Like to see a picture of a murderer?" There's never a vacation from crime for Miss Marple who is on a doctor-prescribed stay in the West Indies.
I love this version with Helen Hayes. Helen Hayes seems to bring the Miss Marple character to life - You can be old without acting old. I have seen Joan Hickson in this role and she acts as old as the character she is portraying, which is why this version is my favorite.
Rating:  - Workmanlike mystery fare good for a modest evening's entertainment
Of the three television movies featured in this set, I've only seen "Murder With Mirrors" (via a DVD rental service), and I felt it was pleasantly watchable. Positives are a genuinely clever mystery and lots of notable actors, including Helen Hayes and Bette Davis. Not-so-positive aspects include generally bland photography and direction and a too-cute musical score that regularly seeks to remind us that- fiery deaths and other unpleasant ends notwithstanding- we shouldn't take the murders all that ... Read More
Rating: - Helen Hayes, Olivia de Havilland
All of these mysteries are fun. The only negative is that "Murder is Easy" is not a Miss Marple mystery and doesn't really star Helen Hayes--her role is only a cameo. The real stars of that one are Olivia de Havilland and Bill Bixby. The other two are Miss Marple mysteries and do star Helen Hayes as Miss Marple. I just think that this fact should have been noted in the advertising.
Rating: - JUST AS I REMEMBER THEM
Helen Hayes was wonderful as Miss Marple, but I was dissappointed in the episode where she only appeared in the beginning! This was the way mystery stories used to be told. No blood, no gore, just "mystery" to try to match wits with the characters in the story. Helen Hayes was perfectly cast!
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