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Pearl Orton
Hairdresser -
Tom Howard
Special Effects -
Jan Darnley-Smith
Production Manager -
Agatha Christie
Novel -
J.B. Smith
Sound Recordist -
Austin Dempster
Camera Operator -
George Pollock
Director -
Douglas Hickox
Assistant Director
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CinemaSerf 6/1/2024 5:07:20PM
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?
Stringer Davis
Jim StringerRichard Briers
'Mrs Binster'Joan Hickson
Mrs. KidderRonald Howard
Brian EastleyArthur Kennedy
Paul QuimperCharles Tingwell
Inspector CraddockJames Robertson Justice
Luther AckenthorpeMargaret Rutherford
Miss Jane Marple