Murder Most Foul

This is the third entry in MGM's quintet of Miss Marple whodunits starring Rutherford as the eccentric yet highly intelligent spinster detective who time and time again has proved herself more competent than the investigating police even though she is... Full review

This MGM British production, part of a series starring the incomparable Margaret Rutherford, is as enjoyable today, as it was when it was released. George Pollock, the director deserves credit for the immensely satisfying film version of Agatha Christie's "Mrs.... Full review

Some lovely bits here, based again on an Agatha Christie novel, not featuring Jane Marple however, but a Hercule Poirot mystery adapted and extremely loosely plotted to enhance the idiosyncratic manner of actress Miss Margaret Rutherford.Margaret, trying out for a... Full review

George Pollock's name never gets mentioned among major directors. Yet four of his Miss Marple films as best remembered for Ron Goodwin's music and the wonderful Dame Margaret Rutherford and real life husband Stringer Davis.The four films of Pollock combined... Full review

This Miss Marple film is based on the Agatha Christie novel "Mrs McGinty's Dead" in which a lodger is arrested for hanging his landlady, only because he was there when the police came.Miss Marple is the only jury member to... Full review

When Agatha Christie created the spinster detective Jane Marple, she could never have pictured Rutherford playing the role on film.Leaving aside Rutherfords distance from the written charecter, she does bring a wonderful quality to this film and the others in... Full review

In this, the third of a series of four films of Margaret Rutherford depicting Miss Marple, we are lavishly entertained by a witty whodunnit which is set, most appropriately, within and around a travelling theatre troupe. In my view, this... Full review

Jane Marple joins a rather interesting acting troupe in order to find out the real killer of Mrs. McGinty, a woman hanged in her apartment. Marple initially is a member of a jury judging the case of a man who... Full review

Jane's on jury duty and is the only one to find NOT GUILTY to a murder charge so she is off to find the real killer. She auditions to join the cast of a traveling players group in a get-up... Full review

Margaret Rutherford makes an amusing Miss Marple in this all-English version of Agatha Christie's "Mrs. McGinty's Dead". With an outstanding supporting cast she manages to solve the murder mystery after joining the cast of a local theater group. A quiet... Full review

Connect to Facebook/Twitter, recommend via email and much more. Dear, sweet, loopy Margaret Rutherford. She might not have been what mystery writer Agatha Christie envisioned, but to older audiences Ms. ... Full Article

Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) has jury duty in this loosely adapted version of Agatha Christie's Mrs.McGinty's Dead . She's the only one who believes an innocent is wrongfully accused of murder, so she sets out to find the killer... ... Full Article

Murder Most Foul represented Margaret Rutherford's third appearance as Agatha Christie's spinsterish sleuth Miss Marple. The film opens with Marple serving on a murder-trial jury. ... Full Article