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Marple: The Blue Geranium
Award winning actress Julia McKenzie joins another star studded cast for the first Miss Marple short story to be adapted for television, The Blue Geranium.
The film stars Sharon Small (Murderland, Mistresses), Toby Stephens (Robin Hood, Jane Eyre), Kevin McNally (Wuthering Heights, Valkyrie), Joanna Page (Gavin and Stacey, Love Actually), Claudie Blakley (Cranford, Lark Rise to Candleford), Claire Rushbrook (Collision, Whitechapel), Caroline Catz (Doc Martin, The Vice), Patrick Baladi (Mistresses, Bodies), Paul Rhys (The Queen, Beethoven), Donald Sinden (Judge John Deed) and David Calder (Red Riding, The Last Enemy).
Miss Marple asks her old friend Sir Henry Clithering (Donald Sinden) to halt a court hearing when she discovers new evidence about the notorious ‘Blue Geranium Murder’. Did the wealthy and unpopular Mary Pritchard (Sharon Small) really die of shock when the geranium in her wallpaper turned blue?
Marple's story begins a few months before, in the village of Little Ambrose. As villagers gather at the golf club to welcome the new captain, the generous millionaire George Pritchard (Toby Stephens), it is clear to Miss Marple that there are many tensions bubbling beneath the surface of this small village. Not least between George and his brother Lewis (Paul Rhys), his difficult wife Mary and her live-in nurse Caroline (Claire Rushbrook).
The event is brought to an abrupt end when a dead body is discovered by the river. Some days later Mary is also found dead and the geranium in her wallpaper has turned blue. Could a mysterious fortune teller or a secret love affair provide the answer to the riddle of the blue geranium?
The Blue Geranium is adapted by Stewart Harcourt (Poirot and Marple) and directed by David Moore (Merlin, Trial and Retribution). Karen Thrussell produces both current Marple and Poirot series, with Matthew Hamilton and Jennie Scanlon co-producing The Blue Geranium.
The Marple stories are co-produced by ITV Studios and Agatha Christie Ltd, a Chorion company, and US network WGBH. Mammoth Screen’s Michele Buck and Damien Timmer executive produce Marple on behalf of ITV Studios. Rebecca Eaton is the Executive Producer for WGBH.
