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"I.M.Noon": TV"The Pale Horse"

TheLastWord 02 Feb 12 at 10:37 p.m. GMT

I have a query!

I watched the TV adaptation of Agatha Christie's "The Pale Horse" (this version was made in 2010). It features Miss Marple (unlike the book which only features Ariadne Oliver!). Julia McKenzie played the detective. (This is not the 1997 TV version which I also saw recently; but I digress!)

My question is this: I made a note - ah! those indispensable yellow sticky notes! ,-)  - while I was watching the programme, that one of the characters makes a reference to "I. M. Noon".

This was clearly - even from my bad recollection of the programme - a deliberate creation by the scriptwriter of a homonym(?!): matched with "I am no one". Other than that, I can't remember that much about the phrase.

I believe I notated it as the phrase 'struck me' & I just wondered why the homonym wasn't - to my recollection - referred to in the 1997 TV version. It seemed the kind of 'wordy' thing that a scriptwriter would pick up on in the A.C. novel & include in their script.

To check, I have been Googling for it to see if there is any reference online, but I can't find it anywhere! re either this 2010 TV adaptation/title or any other Agatha Christie title. I do NOT remember hearing any such reference in the 1997 TV version of the story.

It was just a doodle really, that I made at the time . . . but now it's bothering me, the way things do!! ,-)

Any ideas?? All help appreciated!!

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GKCfan 31 Mar 12 at 6:06 p.m. GMT

I believe that "I.M. Noon" is strictly the creation of the screenwriter of the Marple version of Pale Horse.