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Murder Ahoy

Murder Ahoy

  • Status: Released
  • 22-09-1964
  • Runtime: 93 min
  • Score: 7.014
  • Vote count: 146

During an annual board of trustees meeting, one of the trustees dies. Miss Marple thinks he’s been poisoned after finding a chemical on him. She sets off to investigate at the ship where he had just come from. The fourth and final film from the Miss Marple series starring Margaret Rutherford as the quirky amateur detective.

Margaret Rutherford

Miss Jane Marple

Lionel Jeffries

Captain Rhumstone

Stringer Davis

Jim Stringer

Charles Tingwell

Inspector Craddock

William Mervyn

Breeze-Connington

Henry Oscar

Lord Rudkin

Joan Benham

Alice Fanbraid

Nicholas Parsons

Dr. Crump

Miles Malleson

Bishop

Derek Nimmo

Sub-Lt. Eric Humbert

Gerald Cross

Brewer

Norma Foster

Asst. Matron Shirley Boston

Terence Edmond

Sgt. Bacon

Francis Matthews

Lt. Compton

Lucy Griffiths

Millie

Bernard Adams

Dusty Miller

Edna Petrie

Miss Pringle

Roy Holder

Petty Officer Lamb

Tony Quinn

Tramp

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In my view, this is the weaker of the four "Miss Marple" films made by George Pollock for MGM. Margaret Rutherford is flawless as the trustee of a charity charged with the rehabilitation of young offenders and Lionel Jeffries provides the laughs as the Captain of "HMS Battledore" - the sailing sloop that is used to convert these youngsters from their recalcitrant ways. As one of her fellow trustees suddenly - and literally - snuffs it, "Miss Marple" suspects foul play and with the help of a home chemistry set (and, "Mr. Stringer", of course) deduces that he was ingeniously poisoned! She sets off to the seaside visit the ship and get to the bottom of it all, to the chagrin of virtually everyone concerned. All great japery-by-the-sea and we even get a bit of swordplay.