A Caribbean Mystery (1983) on Netflix
At a Caribbean resort, Major Palgrave tells Miss Jane Marple that one guest is a wife murderer. He dies before giving a name, leaving her to find the killer.
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Plot summary
Miss Jane Marple is staying at a luxurious Caribbean resort when Major Palgrave, an aging mystery writer, tells her that one of the other guests is a Bluebeard-type killer who murders his wives. Before Palgrave can name the person, he dies from what appears to be an accidental mixture of alcohol and blood pressure medicine. The medicine is later found to belong to another guest, and a photograph Palgrave was carrying has disappeared.
Cast
- Bernard McDonaldas Minister
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Caribbean Mystery (1983)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Helen Hayes at first turned down the role of Miss Marple in A Caribbean Mystery, saying she "adored" the character but did not want to follow Margaret Rutherford and that she couldn't be that funny. Producer Stan Margulies offered her the part after using her in Murder Is Easy.
- The mystery writer Richard Levinson saw A Caribbean Mystery on television and noted its ratings success; his idea of a regular mystery show about a Marple-like detective who, like Agatha Christie, was a mystery writer led to Murder, She Wrote.
- Frigid cold and rain every day beset the shoot, so the cast worked indoors while it poured and tried to make the film look like the tropics when the weather broke. Helen Hayes wore light clothes over thermal underwear.
- Producer Stan Margulies had to move the Christie stories to the present day because a TV movie budget would not stretch to period pieces, and because the films were made for American TV he insisted on the freedom to cast at least one American actor.
- Helen Hayes found Miss Marple's dialogue hard, saying she had all the summing up and the exposition, and told the producer she couldn't learn all that stuff. As a star, she noted, the lesser-paid actors normally carry the exposition.
