Murder Most Foul

The final film of three Miss Marple hits in a row, MURDER MOST FOUL again paired the mind of Christie with the acting ability of Rutherford to come up with an amusing and brainy mystery that does not fail to please. Based on Christie's novel Mrs. McGinty's Dead, the fast-moving script doesn't flag for more than a few seconds under Pollock's breezy direction. Rutherford is the only member of a British jury to cast a not-guilty vote in a murder case, so the trial is declared a mistrial. The amateur sleuth thinks that she might have a better idea of who committed the murder, so she sets out with Davis (her real-life husband) to solve the crime and winds up at t...