- Film Review
- Reviewed By David Parkinson
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3 out of 5
This final entry in Margaret Rutherford's Miss Marple casebook is the only one not based on an Agatha Christie story. While David Pursall and Jack Seddon's original screenplay has all the basic characteristics of a Christie whodunnit, there are too many offbeat characters, a glut of inconsequential chat and more comedy (mostly for the benefit of an overcooked Lionel Jeffries) than you'd find in the great Dame's marvellous mysteries. Having said that, it's neatly staged and the solution is neither blatantly obvious nor buried under a mass of barely perceptible clues.
Plot Summary
Murder mystery comedy starring Margaret Rutherford and Lionel Jeffries. When one of the trustees of a naval charity organisation is found dead, amateur sleuth Miss Marple steps in to solve the mystery.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Miss Marple
- Margaret Rutherford
- Captain de Courcy Rhumstone
- Lionel Jeffries
- Detective Inspector Craddock
- Charles Tingwell
- Commander Breeze-Connington
- William Mervyn
- Matron Alice Fanbraid
- Joan Benham
- Mr Stringer
- Stringer Davis
- Dr Crump
- Nicholas Parsons
- Bishop Faulkner
- Miles Malleson
- Lord Rudkin
- Henry Oscar
- Sub-Lt Humbert
- Derek Nimmo
- LW Brewer Dimchurch
- Gerald Cross
- Asst Matron Shirley Boston
- Norma Foster
- Sgt Bacon
- Terence Edmond
- Lt Compton
- Francis Matthews
Crew
- Director
- George Pollock
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