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Agatha Christie
Novel -
Jack Seddon
Screenplay -
Pearl Orton
Hairdresser -
Douglas Hickox
Assistant Director -
Cyril Swern
Sound Recordist -
George Pollock
Director -
David Pursall
Screenplay -
George H. Brown
Producer
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CinemaSerf 6/1/2024 5:07:20 PM
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?
Richard Briers
'Mrs Binster'Arthur Kennedy
Paul QuimperConrad Phillips
Harold AckenthorpeJoan Hickson
Mrs. KidderJames Robertson Justice
Luther AckenthorpeCharles Tingwell
Inspector CraddockPeter Butterworth
Ticket CollectorThorley Walters
Cedric Ackenthorpe