Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

MartinHafer This is the fourth and final Miss Marple film starring Margaret Rutherford. And, like the rest, Inspector (now Chied Inspector) Craddock is on hand. However, after successfully solving the other cases, Craddock is insane as he doesn't just assume she's right when she thinks a recent death was a murder. This death involved some poisoned snuff...and soon the trail leads to a merchant marine training ship where Captain Rhumstone (Lionel Jeffries) is in charge. There, more folks die through some very difficult to imagine poisonings...so much so that the Chief Inspector thinks her theory is "rather fantastic" and complicated...which it is.Despite the inclusion of Lionel Jeffries (who is usually in comedies), this film isn't a comedy but a very good installment in the series....and a bit better than the previous one. Worth seeing.

Neil Doyle There's not much to say about MURDER AHOY except that it should be avoided by fans of Agatha Christie murder mysteries. First of all, it's not even based on any of her stories but an "original" screenplay that has Miss Marple solving a couple of murders aboard a merchant marine training vessel.None of it is distinguished by any sort of wit, the comedy is forced, and the performances are merely average--even by Margaret Rutherford, Stringer Davis (Rutherford's real life husband) and Charles Tingwell (as Inspector Haddock).Lionel Jeffries gets to ham it up throughout as the rather obnoxious captain of the training vessel and the plot is too rambling to gather much interest. The solution is as improbable as any of Christie's better mysteries but getting there is dull indeed.My least favorite of all the Margaret Rutherford Marple mysteries.

JLRMovieReviews This outing has Miss Jane Marple becoming a trustee for the Battledore ship, when an uncle of hers dies of old age. She attends the next meeting and already another murder falls at her feet, when a fellow trustee, having something important to say about his latest visit to the Battledore, keeps getting interrupted by the speaker who has the floor and finally getting a chance to speak and taking a whiff of his snuff, he begins, but abruptly dies.Of course, Craddock and the "very brisk" doctor think the victim died naturally from a heart attack. But Miss Marple finds out through some spilled snuff that he was poisoned by strychnine. She is determined to go aboard the Battledore to find out what he was trying to relate to other trustees and apprehend the killer.Rutherford is great as usual, with witty lines abound, but this entry, costarring Lionel Jeffries and written expressly for the screen and not based on Agatha Christie material, is probably the weakest of the four in the series. But, you'll probably enjoy it anyway, with Marple and Mr. Stringer trying to keep two shakes ahead of Inspector Craddock.

Lechuguilla The story begins with a murder onshore, and then shifts to a harbor bound ship where the real answers to the puzzle can be found. The story isn't really that interesting. But what makes the film worthwhile is Margaret Rutherford. She is wonderful as the overpowering amateur detective, always two steps ahead of the bumbling police.The main problem with the film is the screenplay, with a contrived plot and some rather obvious plot holes. Further, there's a conspicuous lack of character development. We never really get to know the suspects. In some cases, they are interchangeable. It's as if the screenwriters devised the plot first, and then created stick figure characters, to advance the plot.Aside from the script, the production design is weak. And I found the hammy performance of Lionel Jeffries to be mildly annoying. It's like he was trying too hard to be funny. This problem might have originated with the director.Absent the elaborate costumes, the gorgeous scenery, the flashy cinematography, and the star power of blockbuster films like "Death On The Nile" and "Evil Under The Sun", "Murder Ahoy!" is rather humdrum. But what this film does have is Rutherford's Miss Marple, a battleship of integrity, energy, humor, and intelligence. In this film she dabbles in chemistry with gusto, engages in a fencing duel, and in general converts a lackluster script into an enjoyable whodunit.