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Murder Most Foul
Why this pick
Another Margaret Rutherford Miss Marple mystery, with the same broad comic timing, brisk amateur sleuthing, and gently macabre period charm.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1964 1h 33m GBR
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The action takes place mainly on board an old wooden-walled battleship, HMS ''Battledore,'' which has been purchased by a Trust for the rehabilitation of young criminals, and intended by the founder to ''put backbone into young jellyfish.''
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Stringer Davis
Mr. Stringer
Lionel Jeffries
Cap. Rhumstone
Charles Tingwell
Inspector Craddock
William Mervyn
Breeze-Connington
Nicholas Parsons
Dr. Crump
Miles Malleson
Bishop
Margaret Rutherford
Miss Jane Marple
Joan Benham
Alice Fanbraid