Murder Ahoy
New mischief amidst the mizzen-masts!
1964 | 93m | English
Popularity: 3 (history)
| Director: | George Pollock |
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| Writer: | Agatha Christie, David Pursall, Jack Seddon |
| Staring: |
| During an annual board of trustees meeting, one of the trustees dies. Miss Marple thinks he’s been poisoned after finding a chemical on him. She sets off to investigate at the ship where he had just come from. The fourth and final film from the Miss Marple series starring Margaret Rutherford as the quirky amateur detective. | |
| Release Date: | Sep 22, 1964 |
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| Director: | George Pollock |
| Writer: | Agatha Christie, David Pursall, Jack Seddon |
| Genres: | Comedy, Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller |
| Keywords | poison, captain, amateur detective, detective inspector, ship, covered investigation, eavesdropping, snuff, curatorship, gang of thieves, danger of life, black and white, murder mystery |
| Production Companies | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios, Lawrence P. Bachmann Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Margaret Rutherford | Miss Jane Marple |
| Lionel Jeffries | Captain Rhumstone |
| Stringer Davis | Jim Stringer |
| Charles Tingwell | Inspector Craddock |
| William Mervyn | Breeze-Connington |
| Henry Oscar | Lord Rudkin |
| Joan Benham | Alice Fanbraid |
| Nicholas Parsons | Dr. Crump |
| Miles Malleson | Bishop |
| Derek Nimmo | Sub-Lt. Eric Humbert |
| Gerald Cross | Brewer |
| Norma Foster | Asst. Matron Shirley Boston |
| Terence Edmond | Sgt. Bacon |
| Francis Matthews | Lt. Compton |
| Lucy Griffiths | Millie |
| Bernard Adams | Dusty Miller |
| Edna Petrie | Miss Pringle |
| Roy Holder | Petty Officer Lamb |
| Tony Quinn | Tramp |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| George Pollock | Director |
| Agatha Christie | Novel |
| Irene Howard | Casting |
| Ron Goodwin | Original Music Composer |
| Ernest Walter | Editor |
| David Pursall | Screenplay |
| Desmond Dickinson | Director of Photography |
| Jack Seddon | Screenplay |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Ben Arbeid | Producer |
| Lawrence P. Bachmann | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
| Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 | 15 | 25 | 11 |
| 2024 | 5 | 17 | 30 | 12 |
| 2024 | 6 | 16 | 25 | 9 |
| 2024 | 7 | 14 | 23 | 7 |
| 2024 | 8 | 13 | 27 | 8 |
| 2024 | 9 | 9 | 13 | 7 |
| 2024 | 10 | 11 | 28 | 7 |
| 2024 | 11 | 11 | 22 | 6 |
| 2024 | 12 | 10 | 20 | 6 |
| 2025 | 1 | 13 | 28 | 8 |
| 2025 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 3 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Trending Position
In my view, this is the weaker of the four "Miss Marple" films made by George Pollock for MGM. Margaret Rutherford is flawless as the trustee of a charity charged with the rehabilitation of young offenders and Lionel Jeffries provides the laughs as the Captain of "HMS Battledore" - the sailing sloop ... that is used to convert these youngsters from their recalcitrant ways. As one of her fellow trustees suddenly - and literally - snuffs it, "Miss Marple" suspects foul play and with the help of a home chemistry set (and, "Mr. Stringer", of course) deduces that he was ingeniously poisoned! She sets off to the seaside visit the ship and get to the bottom of it all, to the chagrin of virtually everyone concerned. All great japery-by-the-sea and we even get a bit of swordplay.