Marple: The Sittaford Mystery DVD 2006 A Sittaford-Rejtély - Agatha Cristie - Marple / Directed by Paul Unwin / Starring: Geraldine McEwan, Timothy Dalton, Michael Brandon, Laurence Fox

UPC 5999546332223 / 5999546330748

REGION 2 PAL DVD

MADE IN EU

AUDIO: English 2.0, Hungarian 2.0

SUBTITLES: English, Hungarian

Total Runtime: 93 minutes

English Summary:

Agatha Christie's Marple (or simply Marple) is a British ITV television series loosely based on the books and short stories by British crime novelist Agatha Christie. The title character was played by Geraldine McEwan from the first to third series, until her retirement from the role, and by Julia McKenzie from the fourth series onwards. Following the conclusion of the sixth series, it was announced that the BBC had acquired the rights for the production of Agatha Christie adaptations, suggesting that ITV would be unable to make a seventh series of Marple.

The Sittaford Mystery is very loosely based on the novel and changes the identity of the killer and inserts Miss Marple into the story.

Sittaford is a tiny village on the fringe of Dartmoor. Mrs Willett and her daughter Violet are the newly installed tenants of Sittaford House, a residence owned by Trevelyan, a retired Navy captain. They invite four people to tea on Friday afternoon: Captain Trevelyan's long-standing friend, Major Burnaby, Mr Rycroft, Mr Ronnie Garfield, and Mr Duke. At the suggestion of Mr Garfield, the six of them decide to play a game of table-turning. During this séance, at 5.25 pm, a spirit announces that Captain Trevelyan has just been murdered. Concerned for the Captain's safety in Exhampton, Major Burnaby says that he intends to walk the six miles there. There is a thick layer of snow on the ground and further heavy snowfall is forecast for later that evening. There is no telephone in Sittaford, and cars cannot manoeuvre in these conditions.

Two and a half hours later, just before 8 pm, in the middle of a blizzard, Major Burnaby is trudging up the path to the front door of Hazelmoor, the house in Exhampton where Captain Trevelyan now lives. When nobody answers the door, he fetches the local police and a doctor. They enter the house through the open study window at the back, and find Captain Trevelyan's dead body on the floor. Dr Warren estimates the time of death at between 5 and 6 pm. A fracture of the base of the skull is the cause of death. The weapon was a green baize tube full of sand.

Captain Trevelyan's will states that, apart from £100 for his servant Evans, his property is to be equally divided among four people: his sister Jennifer Gardner, his nephew James Pearson, his niece Sylvia Dering, and his nephew Brian Pearson (the three children of his other, deceased sister). Each of these four will inherit approximately £20,000. James Pearson is arrested for murder because he was in Exhampton at the time of the murder, trying unsuccessfully to get a loan from Captain Trevelyan.

Hungarian Summary:

Nagy hóesés közepette, egy helyi kis hotelben Dartmoor közepén hat rejtélyes vendég gyűlt össze egy kis asztal körül valami különös szeánszra. A feszültség fokozódik, ahogy a kóborló lelkek halkan suttogják: "Trevelyan - halott!... Gyilkosság!?.." Miss Marple baljós dolgot szimatol. Burnaby, Trevelyan hűséges jobb keze is szeretné ellenőrizni, hogy barátja biztonságban van-e. A probléma az, hogy Trevelyan úgy hat mérföldre van egy másik szállóban. Vajon mit jelenthet ez az egész, és milyen titokzatos összejövetel zajlik a Sittaford House-ban?

Cast / Szereplők:

Geraldine McEwan

Michael Brandon

Laurence Fox

Robert Hardy

Patricia Hodge

Paul Kaye

Matthew Kelly

Jeffery Kissoon

Carey Mulligan

James Murray

Mel Smith

Zoe Telford

Rita Tushingham

James Wilby

Timothy Dalton