Top billed cast

1. 

   Margaret Rutherford

   Miss Jane Marple

2. 

   Arthur Kennedy

   Paul Quimper

3. 

   Muriel Pavlow

   Emma Ackenthorpe

4. 

   James Robertson Justice

   Luther Ackenthorpe

5. 

   Thorley Walters

   Cedric Ackenthorpe

6. 

   Charles Tingwell

   Inspector Craddock

7. 

   Conrad Phillips

   Harold Ackenthorpe

8. 

   Ronald Howard

   Brian Eastley

9. 

   Joan Hickson

   Mrs. Kidder

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-06-01

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 f...read the rest

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1. Murder in Three Acts59%
2. Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors69%
3. The Pelican Brief65%
4. Who's Harry Crumb?59%
5. Evil Under the Sun69%
6. Murder at the Gallop71%
7. Marlowe61%
8. The Cheap Detective63%
9. Shadow of the Thin Man69%
10. The Thursday Murder Club65%
11. Strangers on a Train77%
12. The Blue Gardenia65%
13. Kind Hearts and Coronets76%
14. Murder on the Orient Express67%
15. Limbo59%
16. Knives Out78%
17. Appointment with Death61%
18. The Organization63%
19. The Bygone65%
20. Foul Play63%

Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• based on novel or book
• poison
• amateur detective
• detective inspector
• golf
• country estate
• fake identity
• employment agency
• black and white
• murder mystery