Murder Most Foul (1964)
Murder Most Foul (1964)
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Cast & Crew.
Margaret Rutherford
Miss Jane Marple
Ron Moody
H. Driffold Cosgood
Charles Tingwell
Inspector Craddock
Andrew Cruickshank
Justice Crosby
Megs Jenkins
Gladys Thomas
Ralph Michael
Ralph Summers
James Bolam
Bill Hanson
Stringer Davis
Jim Stringer
Francesca Annis
Sheila Upward
Pauline Jameson
Maureen Summers
Annette Kerr
Dorothy
Alison Seebohm
Eva McGonigall
Windsor Davies
Sergeant Brick
Neil Stacy
Arthur
Maurice Good
George Rowton
Stella Tanner
Florrie Harris
Dennis Price
Harris Tumbrill
Terry Scott
Police Constable Wells
George Pollock
Director
David Pursall
Screenplay
Desmond Dickinson
Director of Photography
Ernest Walter
Editor
Irene Howard
Casting
Ron Goodwin
Original Music Composer / Conductor
Media.
Details.
Release DateMarch 1, 1964
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 30m
Content RatingNR
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This Movie Is About.
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Murder Most Foul is the third of four Miss Marple films made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Loosely based on the 1952 novel Mrs McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie, it stars Margaret Rutherford as Miss Jane Marple, Ron Moody as the theatre company director H. Driffold Cosgood, Charles Tingwell as Inspector Craddock, and Stringer Davis (Rutherford's husband) as Mr Stringer. The story is ostensibly based on Christie's novel, but notably changes the action and the characters. Hercule Poirot is replaced by Miss Marple and most of the other characters are not in the novel. Throughout the investigation, Marple quotes from "The Shooting of Dan McGrew".
The film was released in 1964. It was directed by George Pollock, and David Pursall is credited with the adaptation. The music is by Ron Goodwin.
The title is a quotation from Hamlet (I.v.27β28), where the Ghost comments about his own death: "Murder most foul as in the best it is/But this most foul, strange and unnatural."
The third film in the MGM series, this was preceded by Murder, She Said and Murder at the Gallop, and followed by Murder Ahoy!, all with Rutherford starring as Miss Marple.