As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Directed by George Pollock.
Set in the early 1950s, the story focuses on an American movie company that has come to a small English village to shoot a period film starring Marina Rudd (Elizabeth Taylor), making a comeback after years off the screen, and directed by Marina’s husband, Jason Rudd (Rock Hudson). The cause seems to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse. After Miss Jane Marple (Dame Margaret Rutherford) is made a trustee of a merchant marine training vessel, a fellow trustee is poisoned, and ship's officers are later murdered after she comes on board. Agatha Christie was upset with the casting of Rutherford in the role of her dowdy, inquisitive, rather passive detective who solves crimes more on what she hears from other people more than anything else.
35 of 36 people found this review helpful. Miss Jane Marple comes to solve the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim. When Miss Jane Marple (Dame Margaret Rutherford) joins a theatrical company after a blackmailer is murdered, several members of the troupe are also dispatched by this mysterious killer. Trying to find how a millionaire wound up with a phony diamond brings Hercule Poirot (Sir Peter Ustinov) to an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous. When Miss Jane Marple (Dame Margaret Rutherford) reports witnessing a murder through the window of a passing train, the Police dismiss her as a dotty spinster when no trace of the crime can be found. Les quatre films (Murder She Said, Murder at the Gallop, Murder Ahoy et Murder Most Foul) tounés en noir et blanc de 1961 à 1964 sont en format panoramique. Seven guests, a newly hired secretary and two staff are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown absentee host and are killed off one-by-one. With Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, James Robertson Justice. Here's when and how to relive your favorite Winchester moments Was this review helpful to you? Agatha Christie's Miss Marple Movie Collection (DVD) (4-Pack) Murder She Said (1961): Margaret Rutherford's debut as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple Murder at the Gallop (1963): Murder and mystery start with a funeral Murder Most Foul (1964): Miss Marple joins a theatrical troupe whose specialty is death scenes.
Nor was Christie's prim Miss Marple anything like the jolly, effervescent creation of Margaret Rutherford. Though fans of the stories can see instantly see that Dame Margaret Rutherford does not fit Dame Agatha Christie's physical description of her, and Dame Agatha was not a fan with the casting decision - at first. As with her fictional predecessor Sherlock Holmes, we delight in seeing her strip away the layers and uncover the truth.The soundtrack is English Mono DTS-High Definition Master Audio (subtitles in English SDH are also available). Rutherford is the antithesis of the fictional Marple. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Most of all, it has Dame Margaret Rutherford give a larger-than-life performance that promises to bring you many smiles and some good laughs.Looking for something to watch? When police cannot find a body and doubt the story, Miss Marple enlists professional housekeeper, Lucy Eyelesbarrow, to go undercover. A police inspector has assembled a group of people at a mansion and is about to announce the killer when the film breaks and the actual setting is revealed in color—a social hall in a vicarage in St. Mary Mead. When the Police refuse to believe her story, she decides to do some investigating of her own. When a murder is committed, everyone has an alibi. As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials. But, when the two women met, they became big admirers of each other (Christie even dedicated one of her books; "The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side" - to her "friend, Margaret Rutherford".shaking her head in disappointment at Joan Hickson's just departing character Mrs. Kidder Directed by George Pollock. Trying to find how a millionaire wound up with a phony diamond brings Hercule Poirot (Sir Peter Ustinov) to an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous. Rare is the reference to Margaret Rutherford that doesn't characterize her as either jut-chinned, eccentric, or both. They work together to determine who the killer is before it's too late.