For those of us are fans of Jane Marple her presence in Sleeping Murder is quite passive for most of the film. It's only at the end with the presence of all possible suspects that Geraldine McEwan becomes quite the center of attention as she destroys the perpetrator's alibi and exposes the person for three murders, two of them occurring over 20 years earlier.
Young Sophia Myles who believes she has lived in India all her life, brought up by an aunt. But when she returns to the old country and is in a grand estate she has the reawakening of a childhood memory of seeing a woman strangled.
That woman was her stepmother Anna-Louise Plowman who disappeared after being married to her father Julian Wadham who later plunged off a cliff after she disappeared. Plowman was only married to Wadham for a short time, she was part of a singing act which broke up years ago and the people gone their separate ways. The conflicts within the group provide some bountiful red herrings.
It turns out that Wadleigh and Plowman had an interesting scheme involving what happened in India and the perpetrator caught on. In fact the perpetrator had some designs on Plowman.
The evidence is in India and by long distance call Ms. Marple solves the case.
Young Sophia Myles who believes she has lived in India all her life, brought up by an aunt. But when she returns to the old country and is in a grand estate she has the reawakening of a childhood memory of seeing a woman strangled.
That woman was her stepmother Anna-Louise Plowman who disappeared after being married to her father Julian Wadham who later plunged off a cliff after she disappeared. Plowman was only married to Wadham for a short time, she was part of a singing act which broke up years ago and the people gone their separate ways. The conflicts within the group provide some bountiful red herrings.
It turns out that Wadleigh and Plowman had an interesting scheme involving what happened in India and the perpetrator caught on. In fact the perpetrator had some designs on Plowman.
The evidence is in India and by long distance call Ms. Marple solves the case.