I love this movie so much

Really Surprised!

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Miss Marple investigates the death of Mrs McGinty. Prime suspect for the murder is her lodger Harold Taylor, Miss Marple sat on the jury but decides he's not guilty, much to the annoyance of all concerned, she takes it upon herself to unearth the killer. It turns out Mrs McGinty had links to the Cosgood Players, a group of Play actors. Miss Marple auditions and joins the Cosgood players in a bid to unmask the killer.Very loosely based on Agatha Christie's novel 'Mrs McGinty's dead,' some elements are picked out of it, but only very loosely. As with all her outings as Miss Marple it seems not to matter. Of her four outings this one to me seems the best produced, the filming is really slick. The music as always is really good, it seems to mirror Rutherford's character.The highlight of the film has to be her audition scene in front of Driffold Cosgood (Moody,) it is a scene of out and out brilliance, she shows just how good she was. I like the sequence of Dorothy's death too, it's really well produced, it's all there, dark corridors, shadows, tense music, lightning, what more could you wish for?Rutherford as always is a joy to watch, wonderfully supported by the excellent cast, Ron Moody is wonderful, so theatrical, James Bolam is great too. Charles Tingwell had been so good as the Inspector too, he was a very likable actor, he never seemed to mind being foiled by Miss Marple.It's a truly likable film, ideal for a wet Sunday afternoon. 9/10

During the trial of the prime suspect of the murder of Mrs. McGinty, Miss Jane Marple (Margaret Rutherford) is the only member of the jury that believes that the accused is innocent. The judge schedules another trial and Miss Marple invites her friend Jim Stringer (Stringer Davis) to go to the house of the victim to talk with her sister and snoop around.Miss Marple discovers that Mrs. McGinty was an actress and she joins the theatrical company of H. Driffold Cosgood (Ron Moody) to investigate and find the real killer. But soon people around her dies and Inspector Craddock (Charles Tingwell) and Mr. Stringer are worried about her safety."Murder Most Foul" is another entertaining story by Agatha Christie with her sweet and snoopy Miss Marple. Mrs. Margaret Rutherford is hilarious and her logic is always funny, especially when she discusses the crimes with Inspector Craddock. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Crime É Crime" ("Crime Is Crime")

Murder Most Foul begins with Margaret Rutherford as Jane Marple serving jury duty where she proceeds to deadlock the jury in what everyone, including her exasperated friend Charles Tingwell as Inspector Craddock thinks is an open and shut case. The poor defendant was found bent over the body of a hanged woman. It was his lucky day to have Rutherford on his jury of peers. No sooner than a mistrial is declared than Margaret is off to investigate and the trail leads to a traveling theatrical company. Two more murders of the company of strolling players occur and the original victim in fact was a former actress herself. Besides Tingwell as the arm of the law and Stringer Davis as Mr. Stringer and Margaret Rutherford's husband in real life, the cast of Murder Most Foul also includes Dennis Price and Ron Moody as a pair of fourth rate hams. They're the older members of the stock company, the younger ones are hams as well, but Price and Moody are hams with a lot of style. This is a fine addition to the Marple quartet that Margaret Rutherford did in the Sixties. Even though the story is actually from a Hercule Poirot mystery by Agatha Christie, it suits Rutherford just fine.

A little surprisingly this has turned out to be my personal favourite of the Margaret Rutherford Miss Marple films. This is an adaptation of the Poirot novel 'Mrs McGinty's Dead' with Miss M inserted instead. I was expecting a very loose connection with the novel but actually this is a very clever re-working of the story indeed. All the basic elements are there and the writers manage to make the shift from 'residents in an English village' to theatrical boarding house very convincing. I love the mixing up of names from the novel (eg Sheila Rendell and Mrs Upward combine into young Sheila Upward) and the deliberate pacing as details are revealed (we only come to know about the important character of Rose (Eva) Kane towards the end).Margaret Rutherford continues to delight as a Miss M who is nothing like Christie's creation. The supporting players are all perfectly adequate though no-one is really outstanding (except maybe Megs Jenkins in the tiny role of a widow ready to snatch up poor Mr Stringer). Its the cleverness of the adaptation that delights here, the atmospheric filming, the broad comedy and Rutherford's bold performance are the other winning features. Highly recommended.