Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Teringer An Exercise In Nonsense

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

rodrig58 Margaret Rutherford has a lot of personality, charm and originality. And, indeed, she was born to play Miss Jane Marple. She's perfect as the character created by Agatha Christie. If "Murder Ahoy" is about poop, this "Murder Most Foul" made in the same year, 1964, by the same director, George Pollock, is good. The story is captivating and, in addition, we have Ron Moody, the famous Fagin in "Oliver!" (1968), Vorobyaninov of "The Twelve Chairs" (1970), and Uriah Heep in "David Copperfield" (1970). George Pollock directed also "Ten Little Indians" (1965), the most successful film adaptation of Agatha Christie, in my opinion.

MattyGibbs Miss Marple investigates a series of murders after a man is wrongly accused of killing a landlady. You pretty much know that with the indomitable Margaret Rutherford playing Miss Marple that this will be an enjoyable ride. Hugely charismatic and with a great comic timing, Rutherford is easily the best ever Miss Marple. Murder Most Foul is another excellent entry in the series. Containing a sharp script, moments of comedy and no little suspense the story rattles along at a good pace. As usual a lot of the fun is deciding who the killer is. Plenty of red herrings make this great fun and as usual I failed to guess correctly. In addition, for British viewers it's good to see future sitcom stars James Bolam, Terry Scott and Windsor Davies in early roles.Even though it's very much of it's time, for lovers of mysteries with a bit of wit this is a real joy.

AaronCapenBanner George Pollock returned again to direct Margaret Rutherford as Miss Jane Marple, Stringer Davis as her friend Mr. Stringer, and Charles Tingwell as police inspector Craddock. Here, Miss Marple is the lone holdout on a jury, convinced that the accused is innocent. She then joins a theatrical troupe in an effort to investigate the case herself. Based on Agatha Christie's novel "Mrs. McGinty's Dead",(a Hercule Poirot novel again! Why not a Miss Marple novel? There are plenty of them...) This isn't as good as the first two, but has a fine cast to compensate. There does seem to be some confusion if this or "Murder Ahoy" is the last in the series or not, but it makes little difference.

Iain-215 A little surprisingly this has turned out to be my personal favourite of the Margaret Rutherford Miss Marple films. This is an adaptation of the Poirot novel 'Mrs McGinty's Dead' with Miss M inserted instead. I was expecting a very loose connection with the novel but actually this is a very clever re-working of the story indeed. All the basic elements are there and the writers manage to make the shift from 'residents in an English village' to theatrical boarding house very convincing. I love the mixing up of names from the novel (eg Sheila Rendell and Mrs Upward combine into young Sheila Upward) and the deliberate pacing as details are revealed (we only come to know about the important character of Rose (Eva) Kane towards the end).Margaret Rutherford continues to delight as a Miss M who is nothing like Christie's creation. The supporting players are all perfectly adequate though no-one is really outstanding (except maybe Megs Jenkins in the tiny role of a widow ready to snatch up poor Mr Stringer). Its the cleverness of the adaptation that delights here, the atmospheric filming, the broad comedy and Rutherford's bold performance are the other winning features. Highly recommended.