4:50 p.m. from Paddington (film)

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Movie
German title 4:50 p.m. from Paddington
Original title Murder She Said
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 1961
length 83 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director George Pollock
script Agatha Christie (based on the novel),
David D. Osborn ,
David Pursall ,
Jack Seddon
production George H. Brown
music Ron Goodwin
camera Geoffrey Faithfull
cut Ernest Walter
occupation
synchronization

4:50 pm from Paddington (original title: Murder She Said) is a crime film from 1961. It is based freely on the novel of the same name by the British author Agatha Christie .

action

During a train ride, Miss Marple sees a male strangling a woman in a compartment of an overtaking train. Inspector Craddock, however, has to tell Miss Marple that a body is nowhere to be found and thinks her observation is a pipe dream. So Miss Marple decides to do the research herself with the help of the librarian Mr. Stringer.

In fact, she finds tracks along the railway line that end on a wall at the Ackenthorpe Hall estate . In order to be able to unobtrusively search for further clues with the wealthy Ackenthorpe family, they can be employed there as a housekeeper via an employment agency.

She soon finds a woman's body in a sarcophagus during a nightly search in a room with antiquities from Egypt. Miss Marple calls Mr. Stringer, who anonymously informs Inspector Craddock about the body. After examining the corpse, the doctor instructs Dr. Quimper points out that the clothes of the dead appear to have come from France. Evelyn Ackenthorpe had also previously received a letter from a certain Martine in France who claimed to have been married to Evelyn's brother Edmond, who had died in the war. In the letter she announced a trip to England to meet the relatives. Evelyn therefore suspects that the dead woman is the French woman Martine from the letter, which she tells the police. The suspicion falls on the family members of the Ackenthorpes who are entitled to inherit.

Albert Ackenthorpe dies a short time later after dinner of arsenic poisoning . Harold Ackenthorpe is found killed by his own shotgun on a path. Miss Marple has now gathered enough clues and now she thinks she knows the murderer. She makes herself available as a decoy and thus convicts the murderer Dr. Quimper. He planned to marry Evelyn in order to inherit a fortune after the death of the landlord. The woman killed on the train was not the French Martine, but the wife of Dr. Quimper. He made it appear as if it was Martine in order to cast suspicion on the Ackenthorpe family. He committed the other murders to increase his future legacy. When Dr. Quimper learns that Miss Marple has seen through him, so he tries to kill her with lethal injection. However, Inspector Craddock can intervene at the last moment and arrest the killer. At the end of the film, the host, Luther Ackenthorpe, proposes marriage to Miss Marple, which she refuses.

Trivia

  • 4:50 p.m. from Paddington is the first of four Miss Marple films with Margaret Rutherford in the lead role. Margaret Rutherford insisted on wearing her own clothes in the film. She also claimed the role of Mr. Stringer for Stringer Davis, her husband, which Agatha Christie didn't like very much.
  • The aforementioned role of the anxious and anxious Mr. Stringer was created especially for the films, in the novel Miss Marple has an assistant.
  • The actress Mrs. Kidder , Joan Hickson , became the leading actress in an English Miss Marple series at an advanced age and starred in the 1987 television remake of 4.50 from Paddington , which was much closer to the novel.
  • Miss Marple claims in this film to have won the women's golf championship in 1921. In fact, it was Cecil Leitch .
  • During the train ride at the beginning of the film, Miss Marple reads the crime novel Death has Windows by an author named Michael Southcott ; however, neither book nor author exist in reality. Towards the end of the film, you can see a copy of Murder is Easy by Agatha Christie in Miss Marple's room .
  • The name Emma Ackenthorpe was changed to Evelyn Ackenthorpe in the German dubbing .
  • In the novel, the family name is Crackenthorpe and not Ackenthorpe as in the film version.
  • The television series Murder she wrote was named after the original title of the film Murder she said .
  • In the novel, Miss Marple doesn't see the murder herself, but a friend tells her about it.

synchronization

The German dubbing was created in 1962 in the MGM synchronization studio, Berlin .

role actor Voice actor
Miss Marple Margaret Rutherford Agnes Windeck
Luther Ackenthorpe James Robertson Justice Paul Wagner
Inspector Craddock Charles Tingwell Wolfgang Lukschy
Jim Stringer Stringer Davis Walter Bluhm
Dr. Paul Quimper Arthur Kennedy Paul Klinger
Evelyn Ackenthorpe Muriel Pavlow Eva Katharina Schultz
Inspector Bacon Gordon Harris Friedrich Schoenfelder
Albert Ackenthorpe Gerald Cross Hugo Schrader
Cedric Ackenthorpe Thorley Walters Jörg Cossardt

Reviews

  • “The British actress Margaret Rutherford contributed significantly to the success of the four films (...), who as 'English Adele Sandrock ' did not correspond to the character of the novel, but dominated the role so much and brought the character to life that none other than Miss Marple was imaginable. (…) The not particularly original stories won through the gentle irony and British humor that the leading actress and her director George Pollock brought into the films. ”- Meinolf Zurhorst : Lexicon of crime films. With more than 400 films from 1900 until today . Heyne, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-453-05210-2 , p. 264
  • "The film is as old-fashioned as Dame Rutherford and yet extremely lovable and amusing." - Süddeutsche Zeitung , Munich
  • “A sympathetic crime film with lots of amusing and exciting details and little satirical swipes.” - “ Lexicon of international films ” (CD-ROM edition), Systhema, Munich 1997
  • “These Christie Rutherford films are some of the best the industry has to offer. They are exciting and yet spread intense cosiness. ”- Die Welt , Hamburg
  • "She [Margaret Rutherford] delights millions of viewers with her subtle humor." - Berliner Zeitung , Berlin
  • "Humor-spiced English crime entertainment based on Agatha Christie with delicious actors." - Protestant Film Observer, Review No. 92/1962

music

The soundtrack for the Miss Marple films is by Ron Goodwin . The theme song has appeared on various LPs and CDs. A suite from the films is available on the CD The Miss Marple Films , Label X LXE 706.

DVD

  • Miss Marple - 4 DVD box with all four films with Margaret Rutherford (multiple editions). In a first four-box from Warner Home Video from 2003, however, all of the films are not in the original widescreen version on the DVDs. Only killer ahoy! is contained approximately in the original format of 1.66: 1. In a new edition of the four-box from Warner in 2006, the films have been digitally revised and this time - in contrast to the information on the packaging - in the format of 1.78: 1. The difference between the two editions is that the image of the first edition (and the previous TV broadcasts) is cropped at the sides, but contains more information at the top and bottom of the image (which seems to indicate an open-matte version ), while the image of the New edition is trimmed at the top and bottom of the picture, but offers more picture information on the sides. Both versions therefore differ from the original format.

literature

  • Agatha Christie: The 4:50 From Paddington (alternative title: What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!), Harpercollins, ISBN 0-06-100383-2 (English version).
  • Agatha Christie: 4:50 p.m. from Paddington , Scherz, ISBN 3-502-51810-6 .
  • Agatha Christie: 4:50 p.m. from Paddington , audio novel on 3 CDs, Dhv der Hörverlag, ISBN 3-89940-333-9 .
  • Georg Seeßlen : George Pollock and the British Miss Marple films . In another: Murder in the cinema. History and mythology of the detective film . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-499-17396-4 .
  • Klaus Rödder: They have their methods - we have ours, Mr. Stringer. Lady Margaret Rutherford. - In the footsteps of Miss Marple . Bösche Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-923809-87-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Bräutigam : Lexicon of film and television synchronization. More: 2000 films and series with their German voice actors etc. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-289-X , p. 324
  2. ↑ 4:50 p.m. from Paddington. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used