Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Mischa Redfern I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

grantss A classic murder mystery, based on the Agatha Christie novel "Mrs McGinty's dead".Good set up, intriguing plot development, thrilling finale. You're kept guessing until the last moment. Many red herrings, but not overdone. Quite funny at times too, sometimes extremely so. There is a light- heartedness which runs throughout the movie (this is helped by the score), though this does not detract in any big way from the drama of the plot. Margaret Rutherford is great, as always, in her role as Miss Marple. Good support from a cast that includes the Australian actor Charles Tingwell as Inspector Craddock.

TheLittleSongbird My personal favourite being Murder at the Gallop. All four of the Rutherford/Pollock Miss Marple film collaborations are very entertaining. See Joan Hickson's adaptations for a more faithful representation of Queen of Crime Agatha Christie's writing but if you want some entertainment for an hour and a hour Rutherford's versions will accommodate you nicely. Based on the Poirot mystery Mrs McGinty's Dead(the David Suchet version also being one of the better newer adaptations of the wonderful Poirot TV series), Murder Most Foul has its slow spots but is great fun and the second best of the four films(Murder Ahoy being my least favourite, but I still liked it). It is nicely and appropriately filmed with great production values and the score is very catchy and atmospheric, if not quite as infectious of the main theme for Murder Ahoy. The dialogue is humorous and thoughtful, while in terms of the story the mystery is generally thrilling and suspenseful and the wonderfully theatrical denouncement is the best one of the four films. The acting shows everybody giving their all and enjoying themselves thoroughly. Rutherford is just terrific as usual, and Ron Moody seems to be having a ball. Overall, great fun, recommended. 9/10 Bethany Cox

bkoganbing Murder Most Foul begins with Margaret Rutherford as Jane Marple serving jury duty where she proceeds to deadlock the jury in what everyone, including her exasperated friend Charles Tingwell as Inspector Craddock thinks is an open and shut case. The poor defendant was found bent over the body of a hanged woman. It was his lucky day to have Rutherford on his jury of peers. No sooner than a mistrial is declared than Margaret is off to investigate and the trail leads to a traveling theatrical company. Two more murders of the company of strolling players occur and the original victim in fact was a former actress herself. Besides Tingwell as the arm of the law and Stringer Davis as Mr. Stringer and Margaret Rutherford's husband in real life, the cast of Murder Most Foul also includes Dennis Price and Ron Moody as a pair of fourth rate hams. They're the older members of the stock company, the younger ones are hams as well, but Price and Moody are hams with a lot of style. This is a fine addition to the Marple quartet that Margaret Rutherford did in the Sixties. Even though the story is actually from a Hercule Poirot mystery by Agatha Christie, it suits Rutherford just fine.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU 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 psychotic violent schizophrenic or whatever twisted lunatic you may think of. No, just a plain English person who for some reason or other has to kill someone out of logic, maybe not our logic, but a plain simple logic that says when endangered or menaced a plain ordinary simple unremarkable individual has to kill to survive. In this case the menace is blackmailing about some old childhood crime that had gone unpunished. And the third reason is that this Miss Marple is played by Margaret Rutherford who is a real pleasure on the screen or the stage, in fact I should say was of course since the film is from 1964 and she was already canonically old then. She is a real treat because she really acts and she turns her old age, her deformed body and her drooping skin and flesh into visual assets to build her character. This too is a very great particularity of England: first actors work equally on the stage or for the cinema or for TV, and they do make an effort to provide parts to older actors, and thus to give a picture of real society in which old people are part of our daily social landscape. Now to get the detail or details about the crime you'll have to go and watch the film. But be sure that in the most English way possible the private eye has the last word in the case over the public police officer and of course the woman sleuth has the upper hand over the male detective. Some will say the film is quaint, but that quaintness is a whole culture that you may not be able to witness any more in real life. The cinema is our unfailing memory.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines