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Post by pat on Dec 5, 2021 13:55:54 GMT -5
This is today's Thought for the Day and it reminded me of Sleeping Murder with Joan Hickson, so I started watching it on DVD. I love the old Miss Marple shows and Sleeping Murder and A Murder Is Announced are my two favorites. One of my favorite scenes in "Sleeping Murder" is when Lily, the maid, goes in to talk to Edith, the housekeeper, and tells her that she went through Helen's clothes, but the things she had taken were "all wrong." It always makes me wonder how much investigators got wrong about cases involving women before there were any women in law enforcement. No matter how good of a detective a man thinks he is, there are still things he doesn't understand when it comes to women.
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Post by jason on Dec 5, 2021 14:47:16 GMT -5
One of my favorite scenes in "Sleeping Murder" is when Lily, the maid, goes in to talk to Edith, the housekeeper, and tells her that she went through Helen's clothes, but the things she had taken were "all wrong." It always makes me wonder how much investigators got wrong about cases involving women before there were any women in law enforcement. No matter how good of a detective a man thinks he is, there are still things he doesn't understand when it comes to women. I studied criminal justice at Loyola New Orleans and I agree. It's not PC to say a man cannot understand women as well as another woman, and vice versa, but it's a fact. Even Stephen King admitted that what he struggled with most when writing was attempting to describe a woman's viewpoint or actions.
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Post by Kate on Oct 3, 2022 17:34:04 GMT -5
This time of year, I always like watching Agatha Christie's Halloween Party, which I have on DVD. I was checking out the film locations, including the church, called St. Wulfric's in the show. The locations around the house and church, which was actually St. Ethelreda's in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, were very atmospheric, and most of the show was filmed on the grounds of Hatfield House, although the parts showing the pointy hedges in the garden were filmed in Beckley Park in Oxfordshire. They did a really good job of making Woodleigh Common look like a small English village.
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Post by catherine on Oct 4, 2022 22:24:03 GMT -5
This time of year, I always like watching Agatha Christie's Halloween Party, which I have on DVD. I was checking out the film locations, including the church, called St. Wulfric's in the show. The locations around the house and church, which was actually St. Ethelreda's in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, were very atmospheric, and most of the show was filmed on the grounds of Hatfield House, although the parts showing the pointy hedges in the garden were filmed in Beckley Park in Oxfordshire. They did a really good job of making Woodleigh Common look like a small English village. Agatha Christie set her story in the 1960s, but the film was set in the 1930s, which was a good decision, although I'm not sure the British would have been having Halloween parties with jack-o-lanterns and other American trappings at that time. The addition of Rowena Drake's two children, Frances and Edmund, was also a good decision.
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Post by madeline on Oct 7, 2022 18:32:21 GMT -5
This time of year, I always like watching Agatha Christie's Halloween Party, which I have on DVD. I was checking out the film locations, including the church, called St. Wulfric's in the show. The locations around the house and church, which was actually St. Ethelreda's in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, were very atmospheric, and most of the show was filmed on the grounds of Hatfield House, although the parts showing the pointy hedges in the garden were filmed in Beckley Park in Oxfordshire. They did a really good job of making Woodleigh Common look like a small English village. I’m watching Halloween Party and just noticed how gloomy and foggy it is while Poirot is talking with the vicar and Elizabeth Whittaker in the churchyard following the service. But then as Poirot makes his way to the Drake house for lunch, the sun is shining, but the fog is still visible in the garden, which was filmed in Beckley Park. I wonder if they were using dry ice or mosquito smokers to create the artificial fog? I would think it would be hard to concentrate on one’s lines if the set was full of smoke.
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