Colibel
Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.
Sexyloutak
Absolutely the worst movie.
Manthast
Absolutely amazing
Calum Hutton
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
plutus1947
Margaret Rutherford was the ultimate Miss Marple.Although the part has been played by several leading actresses Margaret has always been the very best although I must say Joan Hickson ran her pretty close.SPOILER BEGINSThe story starts when Miss Marple was on a train and another train travelling slightly faster was passing the train Jane Marple was on but in the same direction.She was looking at the passing train when a window blind shot up revealing a woman being strangled by a man.Jane obviously reported what she saw to the train conductor and also to the police, none of whom believed her.So she decides to investigate for herself and she gets a job at the hall where the body was probably hidden after being thrown from the train.SPOILER ENDSI'm not giving anything else away.The TV movie which starred Joan Hickson was called The 4.40 from Paddinton.Margaret Rutherford was her normal perfect and indomitable self in Murder She Said and I thoroughly recommend you watch this movie if only to discover why Margaret Rutherford was the true Jane Marple.
lgrace
I love this movie...in fact, I love all the Margaret Rutherford Marple movies. They were on continuous play when I was young--when there was still a "Late, Late Show" and a "Sunday Morning Movie". The story does swerve mightily from the book, but it is no less entertaining for that. Rutherford's expressions are a delight as she marches through Ackenthorp Manor as a very nosy and bossy maid (she was in her seventies I believe). Her Miss Marple is the Auntie most of us would love to have had. Curmudgeon-like and yet kind and funny, and very, very wise.
MattyGibbs
Murder she said is a Miss Marple mystery featuring surely the best Miss Marple Margaret Rutherford. Although the plot is a bit pedestrian, a superb cast manages to keep the film entertaining. There is some wonderful interplay between Rutherford's Miss Marple and the bombastic Ackenthorpe played brilliantly by James Robertson Justice. The film keeps you guessing as the body count increases although there is a strange lack of tension which makes this less enjoyable than maybe it should have been. Keep a look out for a small cameo from British TV legend Richard Briers.I enjoyed this film but this is more to do with the fine cast than the actual script. Nevertheless it is worth watching for lovers of old British film.
edwagreen
Benign affair with Margaret Rutherford in the role that she was born to play-the feisty murderer solver Jane Marple.When Marple witnesses a strangulation on another passing train, this opens up quite an adventure for our problem solver. She pretends to be a maid and goes to work for quite a dysfunctional family.Until the very end, Arthur Kennedy is terribly miscast as an affable benign doctor whose in love with the crusty old patriarch's daughter. What a nasty family we have there with everyone obviously waiting for the old man to close his eyes so that they can inherit a fortune.Marple literally digs for clues and the end scene, after the murder is resolved, even gets a marriage proposal from our old gentleman.
