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Mirror Crack'd Cast List

Bundle_ 23 Sep 09 at 9:06 p.m. GMT

Here's the cast list for The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side.

I have never read the book but I do know the plot and who did it as it is one of my Mom's favorite AC books and she told me about it before I started to read AC's mysteries. So everyone is probably a better judge as to which actors are suitable for each role.

Samuel Barnett: Dr. Maurice Gilchrist

Hugh Bonneville: Inspector Hewitt

Brennan Brown: Hailey Preston

Michele Dotrice: Miss Knight

Lindsay Duncan: Marina Gregg

Nigel Harman: Jason Rydd

Martin Jarvis: Vincent Hogg

Joanna Lumley: Dolly Bantry (I would think everyone would be happy w/ this choice)

Caroline Quentin: Heather Badcock

Charlotte Riley: Margot Bence

Victoria Smurfit: Ella Blunt

Neil Stuke: Arthur Badcock

Hannah Waddingham: Cherry Baker

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go_leafs_nation 23 Sep 09 at 11:02 p.m. GMT

I love this cast list, personally. I consider The Mirror Crack'd as one of Agatha's weakest and more obvious books, but a TV adaptation can be done very well- see Joan Hickson's version and you'll see what I mean.

Tommy_A_Jones 26 Sep 09 at 3:17 p.m. GMT

I thought it was one of the better Miss Marple books but not one of the best Agatha Christie Books.

shaunabbkevrye 30 Sep 09 at 1:59 p.m. GMT

This cast list looks exciting.  I think Joanna Lumley will be a good Dolly Bantry except that I always have thought of her as pudgy and homely.  I wasn't too keen on her portrayal of Tuppence as a drunk either.  That though would have been more the writers.  I am excited to see Caroline Quentin as Heather Babcock

Tommy_A_Jones 30 Sep 09 at 2:51 p.m. GMT

Greta Scatchi played Tuppence as a Drunk in By The Pricking of My Thumb, I am not keen on Joanna Lumley as Dolly Bantry either, she is more like AC Imagines her in the Film where Margaret Courtney played her, Funnily enough Margaret Courtney played Miss Knight in the AL version. Although she doesn't look totally right when I read the book recently I imagined Dolly Bantry should be played by the Actress called Jane How, No offence meant to Joanna Lumley or Michelle Dotrice buty perhaps Michelle Dotrice should have been cast as Miss Dolly Bantry.