Mar 19th
Murder She Said**
(GB 1961)
Miss Marple witnesses a murder on a parallel moving train and goes undercover as a maid in a nearby country house to find the culprit.
The first in a series of entertaining and successful comedy whodunits in the days before Agatha Christie thrillers became so revered as they are now; a vehicle for its eccentric star's more formidable personality traits, leaving some of the plot and the other characters falling short.
Written by: David Pursall, Jack Seddon, David Osborn, based on the novel "4.50 from Paddington" by Agatha Christie.
Producer: George H. Brown.
Director: George Pollock.
Starring: Margaret Rutherford, James Robertson Justice, Muriel Pavlow, Charles Tingwell, Arthur Kennedy, Ronnie Raymond, Thorley Walters, Joan Hickson, Richard Briers.
Photography: Geoffrey Faithfull.
Music: Ron Goodwin.
+ sequels: Murder at the Gallop (1963), Murder Most Foul (1964), Murder Ahoy (1964)
Murder She Said**
(GB 1961)
Miss Marple witnesses a murder on a parallel moving train and goes undercover as a maid in a nearby country house to find the culprit.
The first in a series of entertaining and successful comedy whodunits in the days before Agatha Christie thrillers became so revered as they are now; a vehicle for its eccentric star's more formidable personality traits, leaving some of the plot and the other characters falling short.
Written by: David Pursall, Jack Seddon, David Osborn, based on the novel "4.50 from Paddington" by Agatha Christie.
Producer: George H. Brown.
Director: George Pollock.
Starring: Margaret Rutherford, James Robertson Justice, Muriel Pavlow, Charles Tingwell, Arthur Kennedy, Ronnie Raymond, Thorley Walters, Joan Hickson, Richard Briers.
Photography: Geoffrey Faithfull.
Music: Ron Goodwin.
+ sequels: Murder at the Gallop (1963), Murder Most Foul (1964), Murder Ahoy (1964)
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