Item #74489 4.50 From Paddington: Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC) reader's report, assessing the novel's potential for film adaptation, together with a First Edition book. Agatha CHRISTIE, Frank JACKSON.
4.50 From Paddington: Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC) reader's report, assessing the novel's potential for film adaptation, together with a First Edition book.
4.50 From Paddington: Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC) reader's report, assessing the novel's potential for film adaptation, together with a First Edition book.
4.50 From Paddington: Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC) reader's report, assessing the novel's potential for film adaptation, together with a First Edition book.
4.50 From Paddington: Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC) reader's report, assessing the novel's potential for film adaptation, together with a First Edition book.
4.50 From Paddington: Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC) reader's report, assessing the novel's potential for film adaptation, together with a First Edition book.

4.50 From Paddington: Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC) reader's report, assessing the novel's potential for film adaptation, together with a First Edition book.

N.p. [London: Elstree Studios], 1957. [Literary and cinematic critique] Elstree Studios' report of the 'Miss Marple' murder-mystery novel 4.50 From Paddington. 3pp., typed report on rectos only, reader's delivery stamp to first page dated 5 November 1957. Perforations down left edge from office binding. Very well preserved. Book: some dustiness/toning, jacket with cippied at foot of spine, which is sunned. Very good. 4.50 From Paddington was published by Collins Crime Club in November 1957, and a copy was submitted in typescript to Elstree the preceding month by Christie's literary agents Hughes Massie. The reader assigned to writing the report, Frank Jackson, is complimentary about Christie's writing, but questions the book's potential for filming: 'With its somewhat confined big house setting it has no extraordinary filmic virtues. The judgement on its worthiness must rest on other values - the current popularity of murder mysteries and the drawing power of the authoress' name.' A film version did appear in 1961, produced not by ABPC, but by MGM and George H. Brown Productions. Re-titled 'Murder, She Said', the film was the first of four Christie adaptations to feature Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple. A scarce film industry critique on a major novel from one of Britain's best-known and well loved film studios. Item #74489

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