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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1964 Format: DVD - Black and White,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 23 mins Studio: Warner Home Video Members Wishing: 6 Genres: Mystery, Detective Film, Whodunit

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, All Movie Guide

Margaret Rutherford - Miss Marple
Lionel Jeffries - Capt. Sidney de Courcy Rhumstone
Charles "Bud" Tingwell - Detective Inspector Craddock
William Mervyn - Cmdr. Breeze-Connington
Joan Benham - Matron Alice Fanbraid
Stringer Davis - Mr. Stringer