The wax bouquet (1963)

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Movie
German title The wax bouquet
Original title Murder at the Gallop
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1963
length 81 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director George Pollock
script James P. Cavanagh
production George H. Brown for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (UK)
music Ron Goodwin
camera Arthur Ibbetson
cut Bert Rule
occupation
synchronization

The wax bouquet (Original title: Murder at the Gallop ) is an English detective film from 1963, which is loosely based on the detective novel The wax bouquet ( After the Funeral ) by Agatha Christie .

action

As they raise money for a good cause, Miss Marple and the librarian, Mr. Stringer, meet the dying richly wealthy Mr. Enderby at Hilfield Castle . Due to the fact that near the dead man there was a lump of clay with a shoe print and a cat that Mr. Enderby, as everyone knew, was terrified of death , she informs Inspector Craddock of the possibility that it might be murder and not, as confirmed by the dead man's doctor, a result of natural causes.

Inspector Craddock, however, does not believe the suspicions, and Miss Marple is now investigating herself, assisted by Mr. Stringer. So it happens that she secretly overhears the opening of the will during her investigation. There she hears, on the one hand, a tangible motive for murder, namely a very large inheritance that is to be divided among several bereaved dependents, and on the other hand, that the dead person's sister, Cora Lansquenet, also suspects the testator's murder .

After further research in the local area, Miss Marple visits the dead man's sister under a pretext. But she comes too late and can only find her stabbed with a hat pin through the back of the chair. This time, however, it was impeccably murder, and Inspector Craddock turns in anger at Miss Marple's interference in the investigation.

Although the police are now officially investigating, Jane Marple, an excellent rider and owner of a rare Broadbeech side saddle from 1885, booked a room in the “Gallop” riding hotel, under the pretext of wanting to go on a riding holiday, whose owner Hector Enderby is one of the bereaved in which, due to the first death, all those entitled to inherit and thus the suspects are currently staying. Here she learns about a possibly valuable painting from the estate of old Mr. Enderby, about which the heirs are fighting. One of the heirs, George Crossfield, is an art dealer and knows the true value of the painting. Miss Marple overhears him when he tells an unrecognizable person, and therefore suspects him of the murders. However, a short time later, Crossfield was also murdered. But Miss Marple has gathered enough evidence and can convict Miss Milchrest, the partner of Cora Lansquenet, as the perpetrator. In the end, the owner of the "Gallop" Miss Marple makes a marriage proposal, which she refuses, flattered.

Trivia

  • The wax bouquet is the second of four Miss Marple films with Margaret Rutherford in the lead role.
  • In contrast to the first Miss Marple film adaptation at 4:50 p.m. from Paddington with Margaret Rutherford, the original is a Hercule Poirot case, which was adapted accordingly for the film.
  • The detective novel was published in 1953. In the US it appeared as Funerals Are Fatal and was later published in the UK under the film title Murder at the Gallop .
  • The German title is misleading as it was taken from the translation of the novel. Here a bouquet of wax flowers Hercule Poirot provides the decisive clue to the solution of the case, but none appears in the film adaptation. That is why the German title was originally supposed to be “Der Mörder Sitz am Tisch” - a program with this title had already been printed and copies had been made before it was changed into the book version at the last second.
  • In the German dubbing, Miss Marple expresses her murder theory to Inspector Craddock at the beginning of the film by asking him about Agatha Christie's novel “The Wax Flower Bouquet”, in which a similar murder is said to have taken place. In the original language, however, she mentions a novel called The Ninth Life by Agatha Christie, which does not exist in reality.
  • When Miss Marple wants to report the second murder, she speaks of Murder most foul , which is the original title of the third Miss Marple film adaptation (German title: Four women and a murder ). In the German dubbing, this allusion could not be adopted.
  • The film premiered during a church garden party in rural Cheshire .
  • The German television premiere of “The Wax Flower Bouquet” was on February 14, 1970 at 8:15 pm on ZDF .
  • Stringer Davis was married to Margaret Rutherford.
  • In 2005, the book was in the television series Agatha Christie's Poirot quite original factory neuverfilmt with David Suchet in the title role.
  • In the opening credits (01:28) we see a small church of St John the Baptist from the 14th century, it is located in Little Marlow .

synchronization

The German dubbing was created in 1963 in the MGM dubbing studio, Berlin .

role actor Voice actor
Miss Marple Margaret Rutherford Ursula War
Hector Enderby Robert Morley Erich Fiedler
Inspector Craddock Charles Tingwell Harald Juhnke
Jim Stringer Stringer Davis Walter Bluhm
Miss Milchrist Flora Robson Elf tailors
Hillman Duncan Lamont Holger Kepich
Dr. Maxwell Kevin Stoney Lothar Blumhagen
Michael Shane James Villiers Joachim Pukass
Rosamund Shane Katya Douglas Bettina Schön
George Crossfield Robert Urquhart Stefan Wigger
Sgt. Bacon Gordon Harris Toni Herbert

Awards

Reviews

  • “The delicious Margaret Rutherford and a number of nice details also make this Agatha Christie crime thriller a not exciting, but stimulating film pleasure.” (Rating: 2 stars = average) - Lexicon “Films on TV”
  • “The second Miss Marple film (...) is already much weaker than 4:50 pm from Paddington . But the theatrical duel between the snobbish-snobbish Robert Morley and the popular, old-school Margaret Rutherford is definitely worth seeing. Both understand how to convey the joy of playing that they show to the audience despite the already quite dusty story. ”- Lexicon of the crime film
  • “The fulcrum of pleasure: The delicious Margaret Rutherford. It gives the event a cozy atmosphere and a hearty, humorous accent, the necessary basic trait of intelligent playfulness. ”- Film-Echo
  • "The film has atmosphere, charm and tension, it reflects a typically English world with dry Anglo-Saxon humor." - Hamburger Abendblatt
  • “One of the best 'Miss Marple' films.” - Bernd Beckmann, Gong , Munich
  • “A delicious British crime thriller in which the great Margaret Rutherford was given a brilliant partner in the no less bizarre Robert Morley. Tension and subtle humor are equally well dosed and make this film the most successful film in the entire series. ”- The great TV feature film film dictionary
  • “Nice to funny and often also exciting crime thriller entertainment, which is based extremely freely on the stories of crime writer Agatha Christie. 'The Wax Bouquet' shows the wonderful trio of actors with Margaret Rutherford as the quirky and witty old detective, Stringer Davies as her lovable assistant and Charles Tingwell as the inspector on the verge of a nervous breakdown. "- Prisma (online film database)

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 Miss Marple Films CD .

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 wax bouquet. A Hercule Poirot novel (original title: After the Funeral ). German by Ursula Wulfekamp . Fischer-Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-596-16539-3 , 286 pp.
  • Georg Seeßlen : George Pollock and the British Miss Marple films in this: Murder in the cinema. History and mythology of the detective film . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1981, ISBN 3-499-17396-4
  • Klaus Rödder: They have their methods - we have ours, Mr. Stringer: Dame 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 than 2000 films and series with their German dubbing actors etc. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-289-X , p. 390. The bouquet of wax flowers in the German dubbing index; Retrieved September 24, 2007
  2. ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz . In: Lexicon "Films on TV" (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 898
  3. ^ Meinolf Zurhorst : Lexicon of the crime film. With more than 400 films from 1900 until today . Heyne, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-453-05210-2 , p. 340
  4. ↑ The great TV feature film film lexicon . Digital library special volume (CD-ROM edition). Directmedia, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89853-036-1 , p. 13567
  5. ↑ The wax bouquet at prisma-online.de; Retrieved November 3, 2008
  6. ^ Label X LXE 706