Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

I managed to see them all at my daughter's while I was away.

Inch, how good of you to come.

St Mary Mead, please, Inch.

Gossington Hall. - I'm afraid it's the Lodge now.

Miss Marple! Miss Marple! Telephone!

Thank you, Cherry.

Hello? Just coming.

Armstrong's. - Thank you, Cherry.

Mr Armstrong? So good of you to call back.

Would you be kind enough

to keep four or five of your scones and muffins for me?

Mrs Bantry's coming home today.

She's been all over the world as far as I can see.

Thank you.

What's the matter?

No ill effects from our gardening, have we?

I have had none. - Good.

I'm just away on my wee toddle. I shan't be long.

Please don't hurry.

Not at all. Tootsie-bye!

The Plaza is showing a Marina Gregg film!

They only show old films.

You have to go to Danemouth to see the latest.

I'm only interested because she's bought Gossington Hall.

We heard about that.

We didn't believe it at first.

I expect they've filled the place with marble bathrooms.

Marina! Marina honey, coffee!

I love the smell of fresh paint!

They seem to have done very well, Mrs Hopkins.

That's right. Mr Hopkins kept an eye on them for you.

You come and see your new kitchen, Mrs Bantry.

A washing machine!

It'll be plumbed in tomorrow. Come and see the rest.

I shall feel as if I'm living in a magazine article!

Bit different from the Hall.

I'm quite content. I couldn't have continued there after Arthur died.

No, this is just right.

And flowers! Thank you so much, Mrs Hopkins.

How are they up at the Hall, by the way?

Moved in about a fortnight ago.

Spent a king's ransom on improving the place, they say.

Not that I'd call it improvements. I liked the old place as it was.

Thank you, Giuseppe.

Coffee, Maurice? - H-h-h!

Black? - Of course.

Sugar? - No, thank you.

I've GOT to get into trim.

It's humiliating for an Irishman - a woman beating me all the time!

And she's my patient!

Good for my morale.

Do goddesses require morale boosters?

Hi, honey.

Morning. Darling, have you heard of the St John's Ambulance Brigade?

Sure. Part of my English childhood.

Ella said you'd know. - Ella knows everything.

They're volunteers.

They go to cricket matches and things.

They want to come here.

They've held their garden party at Gossington Hall for years

and they'd like to do it again.

Good! I'd like that!

"Squire Rudd graciously permits..." Great!

All right?

I want the whole village here! We'll have a brass band.

It'll be fun, Jay, don't you think?

Absolutely. We'll have a ball.

I feel as if I've come home! At last I've found it. Home!

My home!

Look!

This is where I want to die. I never want to move again.

Bach - "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"

You DO work quick!

I'll get you some more water. - Thank you very much.

Mrs Brogan, dear, I'm going to leave these flowers for you now.

Miss Knight will be expecting me for lunch.

Yes, dear, I know, but she means well.

She' s very kind.

That wretched Malcolm Cooper!

I agree. That bike of his oughtn't to be allowed.

Dear!

Look at your shoe!

My Arthur'll fix that for you. - That is very kind.

Love-thirty.

Love-forty.

Marina Gregg. Dress circle.

Excuse me.

Giuseppe, you may go now.

Miss Gregg will be filming at the end of next week

so it would have to be Monday or Tuesday.

Of course.

Excuse me, I'll get back to you.

You've done it again. I'm sorry.

You were sorry the last time. - Marina would think it was for her.

Enough is enough! It's beginning to feel like

I'm keeping some secret from Marina

and I WON'T have it!

I don't think she'd mind. - Well, I mind. I mind.

Last time, Ella. No more. Understood?

I hate men who are in love with their wives.

There. That glue will take a few minutes,

but there's no hurrying it, I'm afraid.

That IS so kind of you.

What are you doing over this part?

I cut through the new development.

How do you find it? - Most reassuring.

I think it is exactly how one would expect it to be.

Quite right.

No sugar for me, thank you. - You must! The walking you do!

Malcolm Cooper's bike would raise anyone's blood pressure.

Thank you.

An administering angel, that's me!

Heather enjoys helping people.

It's Mr Giuseppe from the Hall.

He often cuts through here to get the bus to the station.

I give him a lift sometimes.

Foreigners look funny with umbrellas.

He's Italian. Marina Gregg's butler.

He says he visits his mother in Soho...

I met Marina Gregg once.

..But you never know, do you?

Did you really?

Yes, I did. She's lovely.

She's a wonderful actress!

Do you remember "Mary of Scotland"?

I've always been a terrific fan.

And where did you meet her?

She came along to open a St John's Ambulance do in Jersey.

They were filming "Bird of Passage" there.

That day, I had a temperature and the doctor said I couldn't go!

Takes more than that to beat Heather.

Quite right.

I got up, put on lots of make-up and went along.

I didn't feel too bad.

She talked to me for some time. She gave me her autograph.

Well, it was wonderful. I've never forgotten that day.

There's never any holding Heather.

Quite.

And you met Marina Gregg? - Yes. In California.

My dear!

I told them my house was for sale, and lo and behold!

They've invited me for drinks this evening.

What was she like?

Charming.

So natural and unspoilt.

It's a kind of livery.

What is?

Being unspoilt and natural.

Think of having to keep it up all the time,

even when you feel spoilt and not at all natural!

No wonder film stars go off the rails.

How many husbands has she had?

Five. - My dear!

Can you imagine how tiring?

The most promising was Isador Wright. That was rather serious and quiet.

And she had a baby.

She'd always longed to have a child, and she's half-adopted a few strays.

Anyway, this was the real thing. Motherhood with a capital M!

And then after all that, it was born...

Well, anyway, there was something terribly wrong with it. - .

Was that when she had her breakdown?

Yes. - Dear.

Drugs, alcoholism, the whole thing.

This latest film is her comeback.

Is that the time? I must rush.

She isn't really American, you know, she's English.

Well, that's good, anyway.

By the way, it really is nonsense, this companion business.

I would have thought Miss Knight was the one who needed looking after!

My nephew Raymond is very kind but a little over-solicitous.

I would like to talk to you about it.

'Coo-ee!'

Can we manage a teensy bit more tea-cake?

My poor dear Jane. - Quite.

I wish I could stay here for ever.

I'll go away, I'll make movies, I'll come back.

This'll be my home, real home.

It's so marvellous to have found a home at last.

Good!

You don't hate the changes we made? - No, not at all.

I would have been disappointed if you hadn't made any changes.

You have not driven me out of my home.

It wasn't the house I grew up in.

It was my husband's, so I was agog to see all the changes you've made.

That's good to hear, isn't it? Shall we?

Excuse me.

The local plumbers don't seem to understand bathrooms very well!

Is there marble in your bathrooms? - Yes. Would you like to see?

I shall be the envy of the village!

It is very good of you to agree to continue

the St John's Ambulance garden party here.

It'll be fun. We can hardly wait.

Can you recommend a local band? We must have a brass band.

There aren't very many of them out there.

Are we being boycotted?

No, not at all.

In an English village, they take time to warm up.

I guess so. Anyway, your fans will come.

Huh.

The over-forties, you mean.