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Please Note:
James Murray is often confused with a Scottish Actor - James Scott Murray,(who appeared in Monarch of the Glen, Peak Practise and Dr.Finlay) as well as a puppeteer - James Murray (who worked on Greg the Bunny and Being John Malkovich). The information below is true to the listing sited by his Theatrical Agents. I take the view that if they don't know what their client has been in, then nobody does. All claims otherwise,(eg IMDb etc)are misinformed.
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... aka Agatha Christie - Marple: The Sittaford Mystery (Australia:
DVD title)
James Murray on his role as Charles Burnaby:
'Charles Burnaby is a reporter for a local newspaper. In order to get closer to Trevelyan he bends the truth a little and claims to be a reporter for a much bigger outfit. He wants to get close to Trevelyan as he is likely to succeed Churchill as Prime Minister, so there is a huge public interest in him.
Trevelyan has a very interesting past, so Charles is after the scoop of the century. Charles is very tenacious - he'll stop at nothing to get his story. He is a bit out of his depth with the people around him, but he handles himself well. He has that skill which all good reporters need of being able to tread water very well!
I think the appeal of Agatha Christie is just that the stories are so well crafted. To adapt her work you have to keep the complexity in order to make the mystery work and be interesting. The stories are so layered and every single character is so well defined, particularly with their backstory and their reason for being there. Everybody has an agenda, which makes everyone a suspect. That is what makes Agatha Christie so brilliant. You don't trust anyone on face value -- a bit like life! Everybody loves a mystery or a thriller. Look at the DaVinci Code, which is, in a sense, a modern day Agatha Christie. It's a page-turner. Everybody has their own inclination as to who did it and why. With Christie you find you are always wrong -- or at least I am when I read them! It's always good to be proven wrong, but proven wrong well is what she does.
I knew I wanted to do this film because a murder mystery is always fun. The cast in all of these films is just top notch. I think Geraldine McEwan is brilliant. She has a sense of modernity, but maintains the unique idiosyncrasies of Miss Marple. She is very, very engaging.'
Meet the Cast & Characters
Fancy Day – Keeley Hawes
Educated and beautiful Fancy Day comes to Mellstock from Exeter to work as the village schoolteacher and be near her ailing father. She stands out among the unsophisticated country women and draws many admirers. Determined to make the best of her situation, she agrees to play the church’s new harmonium, not realising this will upset the traditional men’s choir. She likes Dick Dewy, but her father thinks she should marry the rich farmer Shiner instead.
Dick Dewy – James Murray
Handsome, charming and good-humoured, Dick works as a carrier, transporting items around the village. He’s very popular with the local girls but falls instantly in love with Fancy and longs to marry her, despite the difference in their social status.
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With British gangster movies all the rage, petty criminals Peter, Mickey, and Jez conclude that filming their exploits would be more profitable than committing the crimes themselves. They quickly abduct Crystal (played by stunning supermodel Caprice) to play the role of a kidnapped hostage in their bank heist film. Crystal resists until she realizes that she will be the female lead. The boys next enlist local mobster Eddie to play the heavy in their opus. He too is enamored by their offer. All their plans go wildly astray, however, when Eddie blackmails the crew at gunpoint to actually commit a real robbery while filming it! Gritty and believable, NAILING VIENNA chronicles the misguided struggles of London's losers to achieve "Vienna," that mythical state of mind where hopes and dreams are fulfilled.
Review by Rik Rösken
Rick Erhard (James Murray) is a successful musician. He succeeds to conquer the world with his songs under his pseudonym "Phoenix Blue", but his past withholds him to come out in the open. Slowly, he tries to find out who betrayed him in the past, but that does implies he have to defeat the security of his manager, Persha Lovich (Amanda Donohoe).
Music is not Rick´s only passion. Is other activity is free diving. He even sings about free diving and that fact is used by the investigating journalist, Rachel (Emily Hamilton), who is searching for his identity. With the assistance of the freedive magazine "Freediver" and her neighbor Ralph (Jason Hughes), she embarks on a investigation. This brings her to Grand Cayman island, where a certain "Rick Erhard", a known artist from the past, is competing in at a freediving competition.
The movie Phoenix Blue knows several different beautiful scenes, with also few underwater scenes where free diving, or something like that, plays a role. The combination of music and freediving is an intresting one, to try tell people why freediving is such an personality changing sport. It changed Rick from a drugged artists to a world reknown singer.
While the intention of the movie does proof it worthwhile to watch, one might wonder why it haven't got the attention that it should deserve. Perhaps it is to the 'television' serie feeling one might get, or that the just the idea of a unkown world reknown singer is just a bit too much... Any way, while it isn't a top of the hill movie, it might be intresting to see on a saterday afternoon. But be forwarned, you would want to wish your self in those waters who belong to anyone after the movie.
And on a side note for
those who are searching for the music of the movie. The "real"
Phoenix Blue of the movie exists of Jeremy Randall, Stephen W.
Parsons and Francis Haines. Many of the songs are written and
performed by the band formed around Jeremy Randall. Their band,
Widescreen gives regular performances in the region of London. The
song Tailspin, which is also heard during the movie, is released on
CD and can be found at Amazon.co.uk.
There is a you tube of the song on the Phoenix Blue screen cap page
Music from the soundtrack can also be found at the site of Stephen W. Parsons.
Plot Synopsis: Kevin and Perry are two 15-year-old boys whose desperation to lose their virginity is so great that it inspires a sort of awe. In the rare moments when they're not thinking about girls, Kevin dreams of being a singer, and Perry has ambitions toward becoming a dance music DJ. When Kevin and Perry manage to stop a bank robbery, they're given a sizable cash reward, and they decide to go on a holiday in Ibiza, which is supposedly populated with thousands of beautiful women willing to sleep with anyone. However, after the boys pack plenty of sunscreen and condoms, Kevin's parents announce that they're tagging along. Undeterred, Kevin and Perry make the trip and meet superstar DJ Eyeball Paul , who may or may not listen to their demo tape. The boys also encounter Gemma and Candice, two scruffy teenage girls who are nearly as eager as Kevin and Perry to get horizontal.
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Synopsis
Gary's(christopher eccleston) obsession with his wife triggers a heart attack. His only option now is to opt for a heart transplant. The donated organ is gifted from a mother whose seventeen year old son is killed in an accident. Thinking that his life is back to normal Gary soon realises that someone is obsessed with him......
