Murder She Said

"See the strange case of the strangler-killer on the night express!"

1961 1h 27m EN

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★7.3TMDB · 246🍅89%Rotten Tomatoes★7.3IMDB · 8,830

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Synopsis

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Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.

“See the strange case of the strangler-killer on the night express!”

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Cast

Margaret Rutherford
Miss Jane Marple
Arthur Kennedy
Paul Quimper
Muriel Pavlow
Emma Ackenthorpe
James Robertson Justice
Luther Ackenthorpe
Thorley Walters
Cedric Ackenthorpe
Charles Tingwell
Inspector Craddock
Conrad Phillips
Harold Ackenthorpe
Ronald Howard
Brian Eastley

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: George Pollock
Writers: David Pursall, Jack Seddon, David D. Osborn
Languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom

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RUNTIME

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87 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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ERA

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65 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "Miss Marple Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by George Pollock, shot by Geoffrey Faithfull. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Ron Goodwin. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Ernest Walter shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Margaret Rutherford and Arthur Kennedy and Muriel Pavlow carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "See the strange case of the strangler-killer on the night express!".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

George Pollock directs. Geoffrey Faithfull behind the camera. Ron Goodwin scores. Ernest Walter cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United Kingdom. Dialogue in English.

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187 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
265 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3Part of the "Miss Marple Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by George Pollock, shot by Geoffrey Faithfull. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Ron Goodwin. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Ernest Walter shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Margaret Rutherford and Arthur Kennedy and Muriel Pavlow carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "See the strange case of the strangler-killer on the night express!".
9IMDB entry: tt0055205 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 10 themes, including "based on novel or book", "poison", "amateur detective", "detective inspector".

The technical file

Cinematography: Geoffrey Faithfull
Original score: Ron Goodwin
Editing: Ernest Walter
Makeup / hair: Eddie Knight
Runtime: 87 min · 1h 27m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
Certification (US): NR
IMDB: Murder She Said (1961)
Rotten Tomatoes: 89% 🍅 Fresh
IMDB rating: 7.3/10 · 8,830 votes
MPAA: Approved

Part of

Miss Marple Collection

Miss Marple is a fictional character in numerous crime novels and short stories by Agatha Christie. Jane Marple lives in the village of St. Mary Mead and acts as an amateur consulting detective. Often characterized as an elderly spinster, she is one of Christie's best-known characters. And yet she had to wait thirty-one years after her first appearance in print in 1930 to appear on the big-screen for the first time. Murder, She Said (1961) was the first in a sequence of films directed by George Pollock and starring Margaret Rutherford as Jane Marple. This was followed by Murder at the Gallop in 1963, Murder Most Foul in 1964, and Murder Ahoy also in 1964.

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CinemaSerf2024-06-01
★ 8/10
The first of the four films Margaret Rutherford was to make portraying Agatha Christie's dotty old "Miss Marple" who had a nose for detective work. Here she looks out of the window as she travels home on her train to witness a woman being strangled on a train passing in the other direction. She reports this to the authorities but they prove sceptical and so she duly sets off to track down the assailant with the help of her not-so-sturdy sidekick "Mr. Stringer" (Stringer Davis). Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, a perfectly curmudgeonly James Robertson Justice and en engagingly smart-alec effort from the young Ronnie Raymond are her foils in this simple, engaging, murder-mystery with a twist. Who would dare to put poison in her duck curry?

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