Murder Ahoy

"New mischief amidst the mizzen-masts!"

1964 1h 33m EN

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★7.1TMDB · 161★7IMDB · 6,164

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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.

“New mischief amidst the mizzen-masts!”

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Cast

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

Credits

Behind the camera

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

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ERA

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62 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 Desmond Dickinson. 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 Lionel Jeffries and Stringer Davis carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "New mischief amidst the mizzen-masts!".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0058382 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

George Pollock directs. Desmond Dickinson 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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162 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
2Part of the "Miss Marple Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
3Directed by George Pollock, shot by Desmond Dickinson. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Ron Goodwin. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Ernest Walter shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Margaret Rutherford and Lionel Jeffries and Stringer Davis carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "New mischief amidst the mizzen-masts!".
8IMDB entry: tt0058382 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 12 themes, including "ship", "poison", "amateur detective", "detective inspector".

The technical file

Cinematography: Desmond Dickinson
Original score: Ron Goodwin
Editing: Ernest Walter
Runtime: 93 min · 1h 33m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
Certification (US): NR
IMDB: Murder Ahoy (1964)
IMDB rating: 7/10 · 6,164 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
★ 7/10
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.

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