The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie

I’ve just watched it and thoroughly enjoyed it, especially RS who IMO is rather good looking, well dressed and rather dishy, but I know my friend Kitty is first in the queue ?

I think it is too spooky for you Kitty ?

M0nica yes I have rather gone off him.

kitty he's all yours!!

I m with you monica I don’t get the attractions just a middle aged posh bloke

Posh?
He's Australian, isn't he?

English I think Callistemon and rather ordinary ...
Pale Horse was a bit the same.

No, half Australian, half English
Perhaps half posh!

Did you all recognise Rita Tushingham as one of the witches ?

Thanks NanKate, she looked so familiar but I couldn’t place her! RS is perfectly cast.

I enjoyed it, but afterwards DH asked “What was all that about?”!

Rita Tushingham still has those beautiful eyes( not surprising I suppose.) I was also surprised by the Cotswolds in Surrey. Is it Lackocks in Wiltshire again? I will Google it. We enjoyed it for its own sake.

No, apparently it is set in Bisley which is in Surrey!

I think RS is very dishy, its the eyes of course and the voice. He was gorgeous in Victoria, such a gallant gentleman.

I enjoyed the impeccably tailored Rufus Sewell but thought the plot was non-existent, at present just a series of mysterious incidents happening to far too many very mysterious over-acting characters on leave from the Wicker Man. (Why did the peroxide blonde flick ash over the vol-au-vents?)
I was trying hard to think if we dressed like that in 1960, but as my main outfit was school uniform then I can't remember.

LullyDully, no, that is Bisley in Gloucestershire, near Stroud.
The buildings are built of what is unmistakably Cotswold stone.

Surrey villages are nothing like that!

No, it's too hilly for Lacock.

There is an Ardingly in West Sussex.

It's filmed mainly Bisley and Bristol

Yes, men always wore suits, I can remember the male students wearing suits! His wife looked very 'Audrey Hepburnish'

At university 1961-64, cannot remember ever seeing a male student in a suit unless going to a formal University do. Most of the lecturers didn't wear suits either.

I live not far from Bisley Surrey and thought it didn't look right!

I have photos of us, with the male students wearing suits!! Perhaps they were just very proper (although, looking back, no they weren't!).

Would be about 1964?

Yes, even young men wore suits a lot in the 60’s, even to dances.
My Father wore a hat and so did my Grandfather, in the 60’s and 70’s.
I rather enjoyed the first part of The Pale Horse, Rufus Sewell
Wore some natty suits and I enjoyed watching the clothes people wore as much as the plot.
It looked like the Cotswolds to me btw too.Never saw villages like that in Surrey, nice as they were.
It’s a very English spooky production, I should think it has an eye on the American market for sales.

Oh yes, men, including young men wore suits. All office workers wore suits to work, but I never saw a student in lectures wearing a suit. Usual wear was grey flannel trousers and a blazer and shirt and tie, or sweater.

DH still has the lovely navy cable knit sweater his mother knitted specially before he went off to Uni. He lived in that and a canvas sailing top, as I remember - we were not an item then, so he may have had more clothes than just those.

There were tweed jackets as well. My then boy friend was considered very trendy and daring because he wore a corduroy jacket. It was always a shirt though and this was in '67.
There was a notice in our women's training college saying "Young ladies are reminded that only arts and crafts students may wear jeans to lectures"
We wore them anyway but we would never dare wear them for teaching practice.

Tweed jackets -and corduroy ones too
With a shirt and tie of course

I had a corduroy blazer but no tie!

Tonight (Wednesday)
8pm itv 3
9pm channel 10.
Agatha Christie's Pale Horse
with Miss Marple.