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Murder, She Said, is the first of four films, made by MGM, based, or claimed to be based, on novels by Agatha Christie and starring Margaret Rutherford as Miss Jane Marple, Bud Tingwell as Inspector Craddock and Stringer Davis (Rutherford's real-life Husband) as Mr Stringer.

It was made by in 1961 and directed by George Pollock, with David D. Osborn credited with the adaptation. Music was by Ron Goodwin.

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The plot is based on the novel 4.50_From_Paddington but changes the action and the characters somewhat. Both Mrs Macgillicuddy, who witnesses the murder, and Lucy, who discovers the body, are replaced by Miss Marple herself.

Miss Marple witnesses a woman being strangled on a train, but as no body can be found, the local police don't believe her story. Undaunted, she calculates that the body must have been disposed of in the grounds of Ackenthorpe Hall (Rutherford Hall in the novel) , which adjoins the railway line. She contrives to obtain a post as housemaid in the Hall and searches for the body - which she finds, of course.

It's now up to her to identify the dead woman and expose the killer, with the assistance of Inspector Craddock and the unwilling cooperation of the members of the family, who have gathered at the Hall.

CAST:

Margaret Rutherford - Miss Jane Marple

Arthur Kennedy - Dr. Paul Quimper

Muriel Pavlow - Emma Ackenthorpe

James Robertson Justice - Luther Ackenthorpe

Thorley Walters - Cedric Ackenthorpe

Bud Tingwell - Inspector Craddock

Conrad Phillips - Harold Ackenthorpe

Ronald Howard - Brian Eastley

Joan Hickson - Mrs. Kidder

Stringer Davis - Jim Stringer

Ronnie Raymond - Alexander Eastley

Gerald Cross - Albert Ackenthorpe

Michael Golden - Hillman

Barbara Leake - Mrs. Hilda Stainton

Gordon Harris - Sergeant Bacon

Richard Briers - "Mrs Binster"

Peter Butterworth - Ticket Collector

QUOTES:

Ackenthorpe: If you don't shut those windows you'll be fired.

Miss Marple: In that case I shall require four weeks' wages in lieu of notice.

Ackenthorpe: Get out of my sight, woman!

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