Murder Most Foul [HD]

From the past comes some pathertic voice
There are three most important reasons why you should watch this film, even if it is in black and white and slightly old in style. We would not make films like that any more even for TV, but we could also say that about Hitchcock or Charlie Chaplin. So what! Well, be positive and as I said before there are three main positive reasons for you to watch this film, or any film of that series, because it is a series. First it is Agatha Christie, and Agatha Christie is the most English woman that writes the most English detective stories with the most English "private eye" or "sleuth" no one in no Hollywood or even Bollywood could think of or imagine. Second Miss Marple is the sleuth of the film and that Miss Marple is an old fire-fox at that. She knits when on duty in a jury, and then she blocks the jury in its decision, one to eleven. Her imagination is totally twisted and warped, just what is needed to find the criminal in the story, a typical English criminal, no serial killer or pure...

Light-Weight Fun With Dame Margaret
Dame Margaret Rutherford makes an unlikely but extremely entertaining "Jane Marple" in this film version of Agatha Christie's novel "Mrs. Maginty's Dead." In spite of considerable tampering with the character, the film is fairly faithful to the plot of one of Christie's more widely praised novels, concerning a young man wrongly suspected of murdering his landlady.

Of the four Miss Marple films starring Dame Margaret, this one shows the actress' celebrated eccentricities to their best advantage, and Rutherford fans will be delighted by her broad and extremely charming performance. Christie purists and those looking for weightier fare will be disappointed, but for some truly lightweight entertainment with a 1960s British tone, Dame Margaret and company are hard to beat.

Murder Most Foul
"Murder Most Foul" is another installment in the Miss Marple series played by the charming Margaret Rutherford. The theme is a series of murders taking place among actors in a repertory company. For some reason these murders are taking place and once again, it's Miss Marple to the rescue.

Margaret Rutherford is her usual charming self as she navigates her way around the company searching clues and nab the murderer.

Being a lifelong fan of murder mysteries (Sherlock Holmes, Ellery Queen, Charlie Chan, etc.), I had to check this title out at the local public library. Unlike today's murder mysteries that can be quite graphic and full of R-rated language, the Miss Marple series are more like a PG rating and are in black and white. In my humble opinion, the older series such as Miss Marple and the older Sherlock Holmes and Charlie Chan titles are more entertaining and have a certain charm that newer series sometimes lack.

Comment aside, the film was...

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