Though the average TV mystery-movie fan could obviate the skullduggery almost as fast as Miss Marple — and certainly faster than the police — Marple-ites will enjoy sleuthing sleuthing along with their unassuming idol. On a train ride home from London, drowsy, elderly Elspeth McGillicuddy (Mona Bruce) thinks she glimpses a strangulation-murder on the train passing in the opposite direction. Fortunately, Elspeth counts Miss Jane Marple (Joan Hickson) among her friends. When chauvinistic, agist Inspector Slack (David Horovitch) doesn’t take the old lady seriously, Miss Marple gets her dander up and declares the Crackenthorpe Estate the likeliest spot for dumping a body...
Released:
1987
Rated:
NR
Length:
100 mins