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The first entry in Creator/{{MGM}}'s ''Franchise/MissMarple'' series, ''Murder, She Said'' is a 1961 comedy/murder mystery film directed by George Pollock, based on the 1957 novel ''Literature/FourFiftyFromPaddington'' by Creator/AgathaChristie. The production stars Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple along with Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, Creator/JamesRobertsonJustice, and Stringer Davis (Rutherford's real-life husband).

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The first entry in Creator/{{MGM}}'s ''Franchise/MissMarple'' series, ''Murder, She Said'' is a 1961 comedy/murder mystery film directed by George Pollock, based on the 1957 novel ''Literature/FourFiftyFromPaddington'' by Creator/AgathaChristie. The production stars Margaret Rutherford Creator/MargaretRutherford as Miss Marple along with Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, Creator/JamesRobertsonJustice, and Stringer Davis (Rutherford's real-life husband).
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The first entry in Creator/{{MGM}}'s ''Franchise/Miss1marple'' series, ''Murder, She Said'' is a 1961 comedy/murder mystery film directed by George Pollock, based on the 1957 novel ''Literature/FourFiftyFromPaddington'' by Creator/AgathaChristie. The production stars Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple along with Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, Creator/JamesRobertsonJustice, and Stringer Davis (Rutherford's real-life husband).

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The first entry in Creator/{{MGM}}'s ''Franchise/Miss1marple'' ''Franchise/MissMarple'' series, ''Murder, She Said'' is a 1961 comedy/murder mystery film directed by George Pollock, based on the 1957 novel ''Literature/FourFiftyFromPaddington'' by Creator/AgathaChristie. The production stars Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple along with Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, Creator/JamesRobertsonJustice, and Stringer Davis (Rutherford's real-life husband).

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The first entry in Creator/{{MGM}}'s, ''Murder, She Said'' is a 1961 comedy/murder mystery film directed by George Pollock, based on the 1957 novel ''Literature/FourFiftyFromPaddington'' by Creator/AgathaChristie. The production stars Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple along with Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, Creator/JamesRobertsonJustice, and Stringer Davis (Rutherford's real-life husband).

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The first entry in Creator/{{MGM}}'s, Creator/{{MGM}}'s ''Franchise/Miss1marple'' series, ''Murder, She Said'' is a 1961 comedy/murder mystery film directed by George Pollock, based on the 1957 novel ''Literature/FourFiftyFromPaddington'' by Creator/AgathaChristie. The production stars Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple along with Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, Creator/JamesRobertsonJustice, and Stringer Davis (Rutherford's real-life husband).


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* AdaptedOut: Neither RearWindowWitness Elspeth [=McGillicuddy=] or AmateurSleuth Lucy Eyelesbarrow appear in the film, with Miss Marple assuming both of their roles.
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The first entry in Creator/{{MGM}}'s, ''Murder, She Said'' is a 1961 comedy/murder mystery film directed by George Pollock, based on the 1957 novel ''Literature/FourFiftyFromPaddington'' by Creator/AgathaChristie. The production stars Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple along with Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, James Robertson Justice, and Stringer Davis (Rutherford's real-life husband).

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The first entry in Creator/{{MGM}}'s, ''Murder, She Said'' is a 1961 comedy/murder mystery film directed by George Pollock, based on the 1957 novel ''Literature/FourFiftyFromPaddington'' by Creator/AgathaChristie. The production stars Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple along with Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, James Robertson Justice, Creator/JamesRobertsonJustice, and Stringer Davis (Rutherford's real-life husband).

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* LooksLikeSheIsEnjoyingIt: Discussed trope. Inspector Craddock suggests to Miss Marple that what she saw might have been two honeymooners getting amorous. Miss Marple derisively replies that she might be a spinster, but she knows the difference between horseplay and murder.


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* PainMistakenForSex: Discussed trope. Inspector Craddock suggests to Miss Marple that what she saw might have been two honeymooners getting amorous. Miss Marple derisively replies that she might be a spinster, but she knows the difference between horseplay and murder.

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The first entry in Creator/{{MGM}}'s, ''Murder, She Said'' is a 1961 comedy/murder mystery film directed by George Pollock, based on the 1957 novel ''4.50 from Paddington'' by Creator/AgathaChristie. The production stars Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple along with Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, James Robertson Justice, and Stringer Davis (Rutherford's real-life husband).

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The first entry in Creator/{{MGM}}'s, ''Murder, She Said'' is a 1961 comedy/murder mystery film directed by George Pollock, based on the 1957 novel ''4.50 from Paddington'' ''Literature/FourFiftyFromPaddington'' by Creator/AgathaChristie. The production stars Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple along with Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, James Robertson Justice, and Stringer Davis (Rutherford's real-life husband).



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* CatScare: Miss Marple opens a carriage door, expecting to find a dead body, and is startle when a chicken flies out.

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* CatScare: Miss Marple opens a carriage door, expecting to find a dead body, and is startle startled when a chicken flies out.
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* BrattyHalfPint: Alexander is a pretty obnoxious example.


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* CompositeCharacter: Miss Marple absorbs the roles of both Elspeth [=McGillicuddy=] and Lucy Eyelesbarrow as [[RearWindowWitness witness]] and AmateurSleuth.


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* SameLanguageDub: Alexander's lines seem to have been redubbed by an adult actress doing a "child" voice.
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* LooksLikeShesEnjoyingIt: Discussed trope. Inspector Craddock suggests to Miss Marple that what she saw might have been two honeymooners getting amorous. Miss Marple derisively replies that she might be a spinster, but she knows the difference between horseplay and murder.

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* LooksLikeShesEnjoyingIt: LooksLikeSheIsEnjoyingIt: Discussed trope. Inspector Craddock suggests to Miss Marple that what she saw might have been two honeymooners getting amorous. Miss Marple derisively replies that she might be a spinster, but she knows the difference between horseplay and murder.
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* LooksLikeShesEnjoyingIt: Discussed trope. Inspector Craddock suggests to Miss Marple that what she saw might have been two honeymooners getting amorous. Miss Marple derisively replies that she might be a spinster, but she knows the difference between horseplay and murder.

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* CurtainCamouflage: Miss Marple first encounters Alexander when he is hiding behind the curtain that separates her room and the lumber room, and she throws a vase at him.



* SnoopingLittleKid: Miss Marple harnesses his inquisitive nature by inveigling him into her investigation and using him as source of inside information on the Ackenthorpe family

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* SnoopingLittleKid: Alexander. Miss Marple harnesses his inquisitive nature by inveigling him into her investigation and using him as source of inside information on the Ackenthorpe familyfamily.
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Features an appearance by Creator/RichardBriers in one of his earliest film roles as "Mrs. Binster"[[note]]No, that's not a typo[[/note]].
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* ItWasHereISwear: Miss Marple has trouble convincing the conductor that she witnessed a murder occurring in the train on the parallel track, with him being convinced that it was a dream she had after falling asleep while reading a murder mystery.
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* DirtyOldMan: Luther Ackenthorpe, the patriarch of the Ackenthorpe family, whose first comment on being told by his daughter Emma that the new maid has arrived is that he hopes she has some meat on her bones, unlike the previous stick.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Ackenthorpe family are all just waiting for the patriarch Luther to die so they can claim their inheritance, and cannot get together for a simple family gathering without dissolving into acrimonious bickering.


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* SnoopingLittleKid: Miss Marple harnesses his inquisitive nature by inveigling him into her investigation and using him as source of inside information on the Ackenthorpe family
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* Neversuicide: Harold dies by his own shotgun. The police are unsure if it was suicide by a remorseful murderer or the third victim. Needless to say, he is the third victim.

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* Neversuicide: NeverSuicide: Harold dies by his own shotgun. The police are unsure if it was suicide by a remorseful murderer or the third victim. Needless to say, he is the third victim.
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* Neversuicide: Harold dies by his own shotgun. The police are unsure if it was suicide by a remorseful murderer or the third victim. Needless to say, he is the third victim.
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* DeadMansChest: Miss Marple finds the body of the woman murdered on the train concealed inside a sarcophagus in Luther Ackenthorpe's collection of Egyptian artifacts.
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The first entry i8n Creator/{{MGM}}'s, ''Murder, She Said'' is a 1961 comedy/murder mystery film directed by George Pollock, based on the 1957 novel ''4.50 from Paddington'' by Creator/AgathaChristie. The production stars Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple along with Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, James Robertson Justice, and Stringer Davis (Rutherford's real-life husband).

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The first entry i8n in Creator/{{MGM}}'s, ''Murder, She Said'' is a 1961 comedy/murder mystery film directed by George Pollock, based on the 1957 novel ''4.50 from Paddington'' by Creator/AgathaChristie. The production stars Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple along with Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, James Robertson Justice, and Stringer Davis (Rutherford's real-life husband).



* CrustyCaretaker: The gardener Hillman is a surly devil who skulks about the estate and acts as Luther Ackenthorpe's enforcer.

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* CrustyCaretaker: The gardener Hillman is a surly devil who skulks about the estate and acts as Luther Ackenthorpe's enforcer.enforcer and spy.
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The first entry i8n Creator/{{MGM}}'s, ''Murder, She Said'' is a 1961 comedy/murder mystery film directed by George Pollock, based on the 1957 novel ''4.50 from Paddington'' by Creator/AgathaChristie. The production stars Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple along with Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, James Robertson Justice, and Stringer Davis (Rutherford's real-life husband).

Miss Jane Marple is on-board a train when she sees what appears to to be a murder - a woman being strangled - in a passing train. When the Police refuse to believe her story, she decides to do some investigating of her own.

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* CatScare: Miss Marple opens a carriage door, expecting to find a dead body, and is startle when a chicken flies out.
* CrustyCaretaker: The gardener Hillman is a surly devil who skulks about the estate and acts as Luther Ackenthorpe's enforcer.
* GolfClubbing: When Miss Marple spies someone lurking behind the curtain between her room and the next, she grabs a golf club from her bag to confront them.
* RearWindowWitness: Miss Marple is studying the passengers on the express passing her train when the blind in one compartment flies up, revealing a set of gloved hands strangling a woman.
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Arsenic in the curried duck prepared by Miss Marple sickens all who eat it, but only Albert succumbs.

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