"Fidget" hunt????

[Risk-Averse_Rider]

Mr. RAR and I just finished watching “Murder at the Gallop” - in which Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple joins “the horsey set” to solve a murder.

At the end, one of the characters is setting off to go hunting - despite a sore foot - he explains that he can’t miss it because it’s the “<something> hunt”.

Sounds like “fidget hunt” to me.

Closed captioning had it as “pheasant hunt”… but it was clearly a mounted hunt.

Any idea what he might have been saying?

Around 3:17 in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Cvs2A38JY

[xeroxchick]

No, but they had the coolest riding clothes in that movie.
A cute movie. Miss Marple even rides, and not too badly.

[GilbertsCreeksideAcr]

He does say “It’s the fidget hunt.” But I don’t know what that is. Doesn’t sound very comfortable!

[gothedistance]

Sure sounds like “Fidget” to me. Probably a Hollywood play on some of the real English and Irish tongue-twister hunt names.

I loved how Mr. Enderby said all the chairs in the room were stuffed with the hair of the horses he loved…and he felt assured they had loved him as well. <snort!> Loved how they threw Miss Marple’s side saddle on the wagonette at the end - just sorta plopped it down on top of her luggage.

Gotta love Hollywood.

[Ajierene]

Sounds like fidget hunt to me as well. Could be entirely made up by Hollywood because they needed a ‘special occasion’ type hunt as an excuse for him to not beg out, or at least not have the audience wondering why he did not beg out if he could barely get his boot on.

Hollywood probably figured that there would be such a small percentage of fox hunters in the audience, no one would be any the wiser.

[pAin_t_Misbehavin]

I think “Fidget” was probably intended to be the name of the hunt, like P.G. Wodehouse’s “Pitchley” and “Quorn.”

[altjaeger]

Just as an aside, I’m pretty sure all 4 of these Miss Marple movies starring Magaret Rutherford were English productions.

I love the initial scenes showing the main street of her village. Catchy theme music, too.

[Risk-Averse_Rider]

@pAin't_Misbehavin';4492473

I think “Fidget” was probably intended to be the name of the hunt, like P.G. Wodehouse’s “Pitchley” and “Quorn.”

Ah… that makes sense.

Thanks.

(Glad it’s not just my ears.)