Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: 4:50 from Paddington (TV Movie 1987)

Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: 4:50 from Paddington (TV Movie 1987). 1h 50m | TV-14

“An old Pal of Miss Marpleu0026#39;s claims she saw a murder committed on a train. Or did she, as Inspector Slack thinks, dream it?u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMiss Marple is too old and infirm to dart around the countryside snooping out bodies so she enlists the helpful Lucy Eyelesbarrow to scout around.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOne of my favorite moments in TV is when Lucy Eyelesbarrow (Jill Meager) locates the decaying body.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMaurice Denham plays a crotchety old codger and titular head of clan Crackenthorpe (what names!–a by-product of Christie producing so many books, I expect).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAfter the body is found the story settles into a more typical mystery. And the ending is more psychologically satisfactory all around than the adaptation in the later u0026quot;Marpleu0026quot; series.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAs usual, David Horowitzu0026#39;s Inspector Slack is a delight. And while Jill Meager isnu0026#39;t particularly pretty (why should she be?) sheu0026#39;s a delight from start to finish and her character holds the piece, like the household, together.”