I am just rewatching this film from my Miss Marple DVD box set, for what must be the umpteenth time.
What stands out for me here is the full glory that is Margaret Rutherford, an absolute favourite film actress of mine.
With her giving a wondrous rendition of Rule Britannia, really priceless and not to be missed.
Her Miss Marple is to quote words from a different film, always the "Modern woman. She has been a golfer, expert horse women, pot shot, and in this film a champion fencer.
Reading the Trivia for the movie here on IMDb, I see that Margaret Rutherford actually learnt fencing to make the film.
Now that is what I call dedication to the role, my hat off to you Margaret Rutherford.
I absolutely love Margaret Rutherford as an actress, I always enjoy seeing her in any movie she has appeared in.
For me its an abiding shame that only four Miss Marple films, were ever made with Margaret Rutherford as the eponymous sleuth.
I don't tend to rate them under any terms whether by, general appeal or entertainment value. And certainly not by detective story credibility, or ever by adherence to any original storyline.
As much as I always enjoy Miss Marple incarnations whether on film or TV, I am yet to actually read any of the novels.
I have nothing against Agatha Christie as an authoress, I can't properly judge either her writing or stories. As I have never actually read any of them, not even a Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot.
This is not for any particular reason simply that I have never, actually got around to bothering with it.
I have instead preferred to watch, the various pictorial representations of the novels.
I love these movies as an entire cinematic treat, with all of the eccentric characters, great British actors, Margaret Rutherford is the rich icing on the cake.
I don't get hung up about plot or even storyline, these are simply basic and enough to bring the film together.
For anyone of any generation after the films were made, they will all doubtless appear as merely quaint anachronisms.
Simply being dismissed as footnotes in British film history, but for me they will always be classic films in my life.
What stands out for me here is the full glory that is Margaret Rutherford, an absolute favourite film actress of mine.
With her giving a wondrous rendition of Rule Britannia, really priceless and not to be missed.
Her Miss Marple is to quote words from a different film, always the "Modern woman. She has been a golfer, expert horse women, pot shot, and in this film a champion fencer.
Reading the Trivia for the movie here on IMDb, I see that Margaret Rutherford actually learnt fencing to make the film.
Now that is what I call dedication to the role, my hat off to you Margaret Rutherford.
I absolutely love Margaret Rutherford as an actress, I always enjoy seeing her in any movie she has appeared in.
For me its an abiding shame that only four Miss Marple films, were ever made with Margaret Rutherford as the eponymous sleuth.
I don't tend to rate them under any terms whether by, general appeal or entertainment value. And certainly not by detective story credibility, or ever by adherence to any original storyline.
As much as I always enjoy Miss Marple incarnations whether on film or TV, I am yet to actually read any of the novels.
I have nothing against Agatha Christie as an authoress, I can't properly judge either her writing or stories. As I have never actually read any of them, not even a Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot.
This is not for any particular reason simply that I have never, actually got around to bothering with it.
I have instead preferred to watch, the various pictorial representations of the novels.
I love these movies as an entire cinematic treat, with all of the eccentric characters, great British actors, Margaret Rutherford is the rich icing on the cake.
I don't get hung up about plot or even storyline, these are simply basic and enough to bring the film together.
For anyone of any generation after the films were made, they will all doubtless appear as merely quaint anachronisms.
Simply being dismissed as footnotes in British film history, but for me they will always be classic films in my life.