Murder Ahoy (1964)
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64% of users liked it
(296 ratings)
The last of Margaret Rutherford's "Miss Marple" films, Murder Ahoy is the only one of the series not based on an Agatha Christie original. The setting this time is a boat that has been purchased by a trusteeship to serve as a home for wayward kids. One of the trustees, Cecil… More The last of Margaret Rutherford's "Miss Marple" films, Murder Ahoy is the only one of the series not based on an Agatha Christie original. The setting this time is a boat that has been purchased by a trusteeship to serve as a home for wayward kids. One of the trustees, Cecil Ffolly-Hardwicke (Henry Longhurst), dies while attending a meeting held aboard the boat. The police write the death off as "natural causes," but another trustee, our Miss Marple (Rutherford), suspects otherwise. Doing a little sleuthing on her own, she discovers that outwardly respectable Lionel Jeffries is using the boat as a "training school" for aspiring criminals, a la Fagin. This would seem to explain why Hardwicke was murdered, but Jeffries is much too obvious a suspect--as Miss Marple discovers nearly too late. Margaret Rutherford's husband Stringer Davis is back again as Miss Marple's platonic middle-aged friend Mr. Stringer. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- George Pollock
- Written By
- David Pursall, Jack Seddon
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense, Classics, Comedy
PG,
- In Theaters
- Sep 22, 1964 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Pleasant enough but hardly captivating murder mystery tale.
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John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis
Murder Ahoy is mostly stuck aboard a ship with a group of people we could care less about.
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John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis
...without a Christie novel for guidance, this third (Rutherford) entry is the weakest of the lot. By far.
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Cast
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Margaret Rutherford
as Miss Marple
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Lionel Jeffries
as Capt. Sidney de Courcy Rhumstone
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Charles 'Bud' Tingwell
as Detective Inspector Craddock
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William Mervyn
as Cmdr. Breeze-Connington
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Joan Benham
as Matron Alice Fanbraid
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Stringer Davis
as Mr. Stringer
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Nicholas Parsons
as Dr. Crump
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Miles Malleson
as Bishop Faulkner
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Henry Oscar
as Lord Rudkin
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Derek Nimmo
as Sub-Lt. Humbert
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Gerald Cross
as Lt. Cmdr. L.W. Brewer Dimchurch
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Norma Foster
as Assistant Matron Shirley Boston
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Terence Edmund
as Sgt. Bacon
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Lucy Griffiths
as Millie
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Bernard Adams
as Dusty Miller
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Tony Quinn
as Kelly Tramp
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Edna Petrie
as Miss Pringle
- Windsor Davies
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Maurice Good
as George Rowton
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Roy Holder
as Petty Officer Lamb
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Pauline Jameson
as Maureen Summers
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Francis Matthews
as Lt. Compton
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Henry Longhurst
as Cecil Ffolly-Hardwicke
- Stella Tanner
