The mirror broke

the mirror broke ( The Mirror Crack' D from Side to Side in the British original edition) is a Detective novel written by Agatha Christie and putting in scene Miss Jane Marple.

The novel was published initially in 1962 with London and in 1963 with New York (title American: The Mirror Crack' D ). The first French edition was published in 1963.

Agatha Christie, very struck by a painful episode of the life of the American actress Gene Tierney - which had contracted the Rubéole during one as of its pregnancies and then put at the world a little girl blind man and mentally delayed -, imagined thereafter a criminal intrigue entirely based on a tragedy also striking an actress at the top of her glory.

The English title of the novel - The Mirror Crack' D from Side to Side - comes from the one of the worms of the poem The Lady off Shalott , published in 1833 by Alfred Tennyson.

The novel was adapted first once, for the cinema, in 1980, in a film the mirror broke ( The Mirror Crack' D ), realized by Guy Hamilton, with in particular: Angela Lansbury (Marple Miss), Elizabeth Taylor (Marina Rudd), Rock'n'roll Hudson (Jason Rudd), Kim Novak (Lola Brewster) and Geraldine Chaplin (Ella Zielensky).

The novel then was the object, in 1992, of a televised adaptation ( the mirror broke ) Co-produced by BBC and the Süddeutscher Rundfunk, within the framework of the series “Agatha Christie' S Miss Marple”.

Data sheet

Title: the Mirror broke ( The Mirror Cracked from Side to Side , in the original version, titrates which does not respect with the letter the title of the novel)
Réalisation: Norman Stone
Scenario: T.R. Bowen
Music: Ken Howard
Director of the photography: John Walker
Assembly: Bernard Ashby
First diffusion: 1992
Lasted: 90 minutes

Distribution

Joan Hickson : Miss Marple
Claire Bloom: Marina Gregg (wife of Jason Rudd)
Barry Newman: Jason Rudd
Norman Rodway : Doctor Gilchrist
Elizabeth Garvie: Ella Zeilinsky
John Cassady: Giuseppe Murano
David Horovitch: superintendant Slack
John Castle: the inspector Craddock
Gwen Watford: Dolly Bantry
Judy Cornewell: Heather Badcock
Christopher Hancock : Arthur Badcock
Margaret Courtenay : Miss Knight
Pink Keegan: Gladys Dixon
Trevor Bowen : Raymond West

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