Murder, She Said (1961) introduces Margaret Rutherford as the unforgettable Miss Marple in this witty and charming adaptation of Agatha Christie's 4.50 from Paddington. When Miss Marple witnesses a murder on a passing train, no one believes her—so she launches her own investigation. Disguising herself as a housekeeper, she infiltrates a country estate filled with suspects. Clever, comedic, and suspenseful, this classic British mystery film remains a fan favorite.
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00:00:00Station announcer, the train standing at platform 2 is the 450 for Ealing Broadway,
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00:02:13Let's go.
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00:03:45Madam, don't you think perhaps you had a little nap and maybe had a bad dream?
00:03:50Young man, I was not dreaming.
00:03:52I saw it.
00:03:53What are you going to do about it?
00:03:55Well, look, we'll be in Brackhampton in about five minutes.
00:03:59I'll report it as soon as we get there.
00:04:01Could I have your name and address?
00:04:02Yes, of course.
00:04:04Miss Jane Marple.
00:04:06Marple.
00:04:06Marple.
00:04:08Old Pasture Lane.
00:04:10Mr. Lane.
00:04:11Milchester.
00:04:12Milchester.
00:04:13I see.
00:04:14Very well, Miss Marple.
00:04:14I'll report this to the station master soon.
00:04:16Yes, please do.
00:04:23A bad dream, indeed.
00:04:24All right, Lucy.
00:04:43I'll answer that.
00:04:44Good morning, madam.
00:04:50I...
00:04:50Not today, thank you.
00:04:54Inspector Craddock, county CID, madam.
00:04:56Oh, I am so sorry.
00:04:57Do come in, Inspector.
00:05:01I've just been going through all the papers again for the last two days.
00:05:05And still not a word about the murder.
00:05:07I suppose the police asked the press to say nothing for the moment.
00:05:11You sit down, won't you?
00:05:13Lull the murderer into a false sense of security, then pounce, eh?
00:05:17Oh!
00:05:18What's that?
00:05:18Oh, how stupid of me.
00:05:20Yes, I am so sorry.
00:05:22Lucy, you will have some tea, won't you?
00:05:25Oh, uh...
00:05:25Some tea for the inspector, dear, please.
00:05:27Yes, ma'am.
00:05:30Well, now, have you got him?
00:05:32Well, I, uh...
00:05:35That is, uh...
00:05:36We have come to the conclusion that what you saw on the train was, uh...
00:05:41Well, a man and a woman...
00:05:43Yes, as I said.
00:05:45I mean, uh...
00:05:47Perhaps they were honeymooners.
00:05:50Inspector, I may be what is termed a spinster.
00:05:54But I do know the difference between horseplay and murder.
00:05:59Of course, madam, uh, Miss Marple.
00:06:01But the fact remains that there's been a thorough search of every train.
00:06:04And no hospital has treated any woman such as you described.
00:06:07She was blonde and had on a coat with a pale fur collar.
00:06:09And no such woman has been seen getting on or off a train either alone or with anybody else.
00:06:14But of course not.
00:06:15She was dead.
00:06:16Further, a complete search has been made of every inch of the tracks for the whole length of the line.
00:06:20Negative.
00:06:20Oh.
00:06:22So you don't believe me.
00:06:25I didn't mean to imply that.
00:06:26You certainly did.
00:06:27Not at all.
00:06:28I, uh...
00:06:29What then?
00:06:30I...
00:06:30I assure you, Miss Marple, that a woman cannot be murdered on a busy train a few minutes before a station without our finding out about it.
00:06:37I'm quite sure you mean well, Inspector.
00:06:40But if you imagine that I am going to sit back and let everybody regard me as a dotty old maid, you are very much mistaken.
00:06:48Good day.
00:07:07I'm sorry, Mrs. Stanton.
00:07:24The hat rack hanging, Falcon Smith's latest, I'm afraid.
00:07:28We haven't received our copy yet.
00:07:30Plain inefficiency.
00:07:32Anyway, I want to know the moment it comes in.
00:07:33Of course, of course, Mrs. Stanton.
00:07:35Oh, good morning, Miss Marple.
00:07:38Good morning, Mr. Stringer.
00:07:40Good morning, Hilda.
00:07:44One moment.
00:07:46The hat rack hanging.
00:07:48I've been keeping it for you.
00:07:54Mr. Stringer, would you say I was an unstable woman?
00:07:57Oh, certainly not.
00:07:59In full possession of my faculties?
00:08:01Absolutely.
00:08:02And not given to hallucinations?
00:08:04I know.
00:08:04Oh, thank you, Mr. Stringer.
00:08:06The police think I'm dotty.
00:08:08What?
00:08:09Apparently what I saw was a young man and woman in the throes of connubial bliss.
00:08:14I see.
00:08:15Well, if I were you, Miss Marple, I would certainly write to the chief constable.
00:08:19Mr. Stringer, how many detective novels would you say we have read over the years?
00:08:24Impossible to say.
00:08:25Certainly many hundreds.
00:08:26Yes.
00:08:26Which gives us, wouldn't you agree, a certain knowledge of the criminal mind.
00:08:30Oh, most assuredly.
00:08:31Well, this is where we put that knowledge to the test.
00:08:35We?
00:08:36Yes, we.
00:08:37Yes, we.
00:08:43So it has come in.
00:08:45Oh, has it?
00:08:46Well, I think I have first call.
00:08:49I don't think you'll like it, Hilda.
00:08:50Too obvious.
00:08:51The mother did it, of course.
00:08:53How can you possibly know that?
00:08:54The book has only just come in.
00:08:55There always is with Falconsmith.
00:08:57A deprived child, you know.
00:09:01Hot buttered crumpets for tea, Mr. Stringer, if you care to join me.
00:09:04Indeed, I would, Miss Marple.
00:09:11Ah, yes, here we are.
00:09:14Now, I calculate the five o'clock express to Brackhampton overtook my train.
00:09:19Somewhere about there.
00:09:21But how can you be sure?
00:09:23Well, I remember the ticket collector saying five minutes to Brackhampton.
00:09:26Couldn't have been more than a minute after the murder he came in.
00:09:30So that makes it six minutes before Brackhampton.
00:09:32That's, say, 30 miles an hour.
00:09:36So, about there.
00:09:40But the body, Miss Marple?
00:09:41Well, it seems clear that was thrown from the train between here and Brackhampton.
00:09:46The police found nothing.
00:09:47Of course not.
00:09:49The murderer returned before the search and disposed of the body.
00:09:53By Jove, the police will certainly want to investigate now.
00:09:56Well, according to them, there is nothing to investigate.
00:09:59Surely in the light of our theory, a fresh search.
00:10:02Surely. But this time we will conduct our own.
00:10:05Eh?
00:10:05Yes, Mr. Stringer.
00:10:07I recommend a hearty breakfast tomorrow.
00:10:10You and I are going to take an early morning walk.
00:10:12There must be something somewhere.
00:10:24You can't throw a body out of a fast-moving train without leaving some kind of trace.
00:10:29Miss Marple, if we linger here much longer, I feel certain we should be apprehended.
00:10:33Oh, nonsense.
00:10:34No one will give a couple of track layers a second glance.
00:10:37I'm not altogether convinced our disguises are adequate.
00:10:40A shoe, a bit of cloth, something.
00:10:43I can see that our timetable may have been out of date,
00:10:46but I'm quite sure the 7.15 is still running.
00:10:49Very possibly.
00:10:50But it could be most dangerous up here.
00:10:53Undoubtedly.
00:10:53Miss Marple.
00:11:12Miss Marple.
00:11:13Yes?
00:11:14There you are.
00:11:18I think I heard something.
00:11:20And I think I found something.
00:11:22Really?
00:11:22Really?
00:11:22Really?
00:11:34Consistent with something having been dumped from a train, wouldn't you say?
00:11:38If it was the body, it would roll down and finish up against this wall.
00:11:44Then where is it?
00:11:46That, Mr. Stringer, is the question.
00:11:50Could be buried.
00:11:52You'd need a pick or a shovel.
00:11:55No, this is hardly an ideal spot for disposing of a body.
00:11:59Unless...
00:12:00From her fur collar, I think.
00:12:15Mr. Stringer, will you kindly give me a leg up?
00:12:18Certainly, Miss Marple, I have to...
00:12:19Please, Mr. Stringer.
00:12:22No, no.
00:12:25Make a stirrup.
00:12:28Come on.
00:12:29Careful.
00:12:30Are you ready?
00:12:31Interlock your fingers.
00:12:33They are interlocked.
00:12:34Oh.
00:12:35Well, are you ready?
00:12:38You're magnificent.
00:12:43Down.
00:12:49What a frightful looking man.
00:12:51What a frightful looking dog.
00:12:52Miss Marple, prudence demands a retreat.
00:12:55Mr. Stringer, I am convinced that the body is the other side of this wall.
00:12:58Oh, but that's the Ackenthorpe Hall estate.
00:13:01No.
00:13:02Perfect.
00:13:03Easy enough for someone to come down out of the house, recover the body, and dispose of it somewhere in the grounds.
00:13:09Someone from the house?
00:13:10You mean one of the family?
00:13:11Yes, or one of the servants.
00:13:12If they're lucky enough to have any.
00:13:15Servants.
00:13:16Yes, I wonder.
00:13:18Miss Marple, whatever it is, no, no, no.
00:13:22Mr. Stringer, we will withdraw.
00:13:25Temporarily.
00:13:26Good morning.
00:13:43Good morning.
00:13:45I'm afraid there's nothing on my books, madam.
00:13:47Not so much as her mother's help.
00:13:48I'm seeking a post, not offering one.
00:13:55Pray be seated, do, my good woman.
00:13:57You need seek no more.
00:13:58You've come to the right place.
00:14:00How good to see the spirit of unselfish service is still with us.
00:14:03Now, let me see now.
00:14:07Yes, here's a perfect plum.
00:14:09Cheerful home for cheerful lady.
00:14:12Old suite, TV, radio, and a use of car.
00:14:14Tea in bed on Sundays, pension scheme.
00:14:17Heaven forbid.
00:14:20Oh, all right.
00:14:22Mrs. Forbes Alexbridge, setting up house near Monte Carlo.
00:14:25I won't have any foreigners, of course.
00:14:27Own gaming allowance.
00:14:29Well, I don't approve of gambling.
00:14:32Mrs. Hamilton Potts, the Dingley stud farm, you know.
00:14:35Seven children, eldest seven.
00:14:38Oh, no, thank you.
00:14:40Perhaps if I might have a quiet word with Mrs. Binster.
00:14:44Hi, I'm Mrs. Binster.
00:14:49Oh, I see.
00:14:51Well, as a matter of fact, I wondered if there might be a position at Ackenthorpe Hall.
00:14:55Ackenthorpe Hall?
00:14:56Yes, Ackenthorpe Hall.
00:15:00Oh, yes.
00:15:01I think I can accommodate you.
00:15:04Yes.
00:15:05There's always a vacancy there.
00:15:07Ah?
00:15:07Ah?
00:15:07Ah?
00:15:07Ah?
00:15:07Ah?
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00:15:14Ah?
00:15:14Ah!
00:15:26Ah?
00:15:27Ah?
00:15:44I don't know.
00:16:14I'm Jane, from Mrs. Binster's employment agency.
00:16:30The new maid.
00:16:32Well, you look old enough to know better.
00:16:34Come in.
00:16:44I'm to see Miss Ackenthorpe.
00:16:51You are expected.
00:16:52Oh, ma'am.
00:16:53Miss Ackenthorpe.
00:16:54Yes?
00:16:55I'm Jane.
00:16:56The new maid?
00:16:57Yes.
00:16:58Jane Marple.
00:16:59Now, if you'll kindly show me where I'm to put my things, I'll...
00:17:03Oh, yes.
00:17:04Yes, of course.
00:17:05But I'm wondering if this post is really what you're looking for, Miss Marple.
00:17:09Well, naturally.
00:17:10Otherwise, I wouldn't be here.
00:17:11I don't want a housekeeper, you know.
00:17:12I want someone to...
00:17:13Well, to do the work.
00:17:14Yes.
00:17:15You want cooking, washing up, beds made, floors scrubbed, fires lit, ashes taken away.
00:17:20I quite understand.
00:17:21Well, I...
00:17:22I hope you'll find us suitable.
00:17:23Oh, I'm sure I shall.
00:17:24Perhaps you won't find the work too exacting.
00:17:25There are only the three of us.
00:17:26Myself, my nephew, down from school for the holidays.
00:17:29And then there's father.
00:17:30And then there's father.
00:17:31And then there's father.
00:17:32Oh, yes.
00:17:33Oh, yes.
00:17:34Oh, yes.
00:17:35Oh, yes.
00:17:36Oh, yes.
00:17:37Oh, yes.
00:17:38Oh, yes.
00:17:39Oh, yes.
00:17:40Oh, yes.
00:17:41Oh, yes.
00:17:42Oh, yes.
00:17:43Oh, yes.
00:17:44Oh, yes.
00:17:45Oh, yes.
00:17:46Oh, yes.
00:17:47Oh, yes.
00:17:48Oh, yes.
00:17:49And then there's father.
00:17:50May I show you to your room?
00:17:51Yes.
00:17:52Certainly.
00:17:55I'll take that, my dear.
00:17:57Perhaps the clubs, if you wouldn't mind.
00:17:59I must keep fit, you know.
00:18:01Oh, yes.
00:18:02Of course.
00:18:03Our staff consists of Hillman, the gardener, and Mrs. Kidder, she let you in.
00:18:09She comes in from the village three afternoons a week to do the rough work.
00:18:14That was my grandfather.
00:18:16He founded the family fortune.
00:18:18Tea biscuits, you know.
00:18:19Oh, yes.
00:18:20And very excellent biscuits, they were, too.
00:18:23Quite a severe man, I'm afraid.
00:18:27Miss Marple, I think it only fair to explain to you that my father himself is...
00:18:33Well, quite frankly, he's a bit difficult at times.
00:18:36He's an invalid, you know.
00:18:37He's very keen on economy, and he sometimes says things that upset people.
00:18:42I wouldn't want you to...
00:18:44Oh, I'm quite used to looking after elderly people of all sorts.
00:18:47We'll manage.
00:18:51Emma!
00:18:52Emma!
00:18:53I hear you.
00:18:54Yes, father.
00:18:55Excuse me, Robert.
00:18:56Don't try to sneak off.
00:18:59Is that the new girl with you?
00:19:01Well, er...
00:19:02Yes, father.
00:19:03Hope she's got a bit more meat on her than the last one.
00:19:06Can't stand them skinny.
00:19:08Well, don't just stand there, boggling girl.
00:19:10Bring her in.
00:19:11I want to look at her.
00:19:12Yes.
00:19:13Will you come in, please?
00:19:14Father, this is Miss Marple.
00:19:25Jane.
00:19:26I'm a plainer Jane I've never set eyes on in me life.
00:19:29Well, we can't all be young and handsome, can we, Mr. Lackenthal?
00:19:33There is one thing I cannot tolerate, and that is impertinence.
00:19:36Well, we should get on admirably.
00:19:39Neither can I.
00:19:40Well, if you're coming to stay here, and I suppose you've got to, there's one thing you'd better understand straight away.
00:19:45Because I live in a big house, it doesn't necessarily follow that I'm a rich man.
00:19:49So there's no good coming here with extravagant ideas.
00:19:52I live here because I want to.
00:19:55Not because I can afford it.
00:19:57Father, don't you think...
00:19:58No, I don't.
00:19:59Can you cook?
00:20:00If you want good English cooking, yes.
00:20:03Cards as good as lobster any day.
00:20:05And much cheaper.
00:20:07Well, that depends on whether or not one has a palate unsullied by cheap opiates.
00:20:12If you mean what I think you mean, I'd have you know this cheroot costs two shillings.
00:20:16Yes, quite.
00:20:18I'll show Miss Marple to her room.
00:20:20This way, please.
00:20:21Good idea.
00:20:22That was Hillman, the gardener.
00:20:23When Mr. Ackenthorpe wants to move about, he always calls him.
00:20:25They're quite close.
00:20:26Will you be staying, Miss Marple?
00:20:27Jane?
00:20:28My dear lady, of course.
00:20:29I'm so glad.
00:20:30Emma!
00:20:31Come back here.
00:20:32You've forgotten my medicine.
00:20:33Excuse me a moment.
00:20:34That's your room.
00:20:35Just down there.
00:20:36The door opposite the head of the small stairs.
00:20:38I'll find it.
00:20:39Don't you worry.
00:20:40Can I give you those?
00:20:41Yes, of course.
00:20:42Yes, of course.
00:20:43All right.
00:20:44Yes.
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00:21:37Let's go.
00:22:07Come out at once.
00:22:13I advise you to come out.
00:22:17Very well.
00:22:37You're Miss Emma's nephew, I presume?
00:22:46Yes.
00:22:47Alexander Eastley.
00:22:48How do you do?
00:22:49How do you do?
00:22:51I'm Jane.
00:22:52Jane Marple.
00:22:53Yes.
00:22:55It is disappointing, isn't it?
00:22:56I'd rather hoped for the Jane Mansfield type.
00:22:59I see you have something in common with your grandfather.
00:23:02Oh, we're very alike in many ways.
00:23:04Mind you, I'm not mean with money.
00:23:06He'll stock that vase out of your wages, you know.
00:23:10It's just as well you got out of the way.
00:23:13Otherwise...
00:23:13It'd have been my head and you'd have got ten years.
00:23:17That is still possible.
00:23:23You know, it isn't just that you don't look like Jane Mansfield.
00:23:27You're not my idea of a maid, either.
00:23:29Well, quite honestly, I don't think you'd be everybody's idea of a boy.
00:23:33You know, there's something decidedly fishy about you.
00:23:37I can see you'll have to go.
00:23:39After Mrs. Kidder, of course, she's next.
00:23:41Depressing creature.
00:23:43So was Annie.
00:23:44Annie?
00:23:45Your predecessor.
00:23:46Thin as a rake and a shocking cook.
00:23:49Can you cook?
00:23:50Well, I think I've done better than Annie.
00:23:55Grandfather's like that, too.
00:23:56And he hates his dinner to be late.
00:23:58I'd leave your unpacking until later if I were you.
00:24:00Well, in that case, hadn't you better show me the way to the kitchen, Alexander?
00:24:04Very well.
00:24:06Jane?
00:24:14Emma!
00:24:15That's him.
00:24:16Always shouting about something.
00:24:17Mostly money.
00:24:19This way.
00:24:19Emma!
00:24:20Of course, they're all waiting for him to drop dead, you know.
00:24:23Frightful pack of vultures, our family.
00:24:25Except possibly Aunt Emma.
00:24:27And who are these vultures?
00:24:29Oh, there's Uncle Harold, stinking rich and just as mean.
00:24:32Uncle Albert, deadly dull, poor fellow.
00:24:35Then there's Uncle Cedric.
00:24:36He paints, but not for art's sake.
00:24:39Do you know, last year, he and one of his models.
00:24:44Alexander!
00:24:45Well, he's like that.
00:24:46There was an Uncle Edmund.
00:24:48Was?
00:24:49Yes, stopped a whole bomb during the war.
00:24:51All by himself.
00:24:52Wasn't another man around for miles.
00:24:55Deserting, probably.
00:24:56And who can be held responsible for you?
00:24:59Well put.
00:25:00Mummy's name was Edith, but she's dead.
00:25:03Daddy's Brian Eastley, you know.
00:25:04Oh?
00:25:05You know, the fighter race.
00:25:06Battle of Britain.
00:25:07O.D. Brian Eastley.
00:25:09Yes.
00:25:10I'm going to set him up in business when I get my inheritance from grandfather.
00:25:14Here we are.
00:25:14Well, there you are, and about time, too.
00:25:19Well, I'm off.
00:25:20I wouldn't stay in this place after dark, not for all the tea in China.
00:25:23Now, look.
00:25:24The pots and pans are on that shelf there, over the stove.
00:25:26Oh, yes.
00:25:27And the groceries and provisions.
00:25:30In there.
00:25:33Well, cheer up.
00:25:34Good day.
00:25:35Good day, Mrs. Kidder.
00:25:37What's the matter with you?
00:25:38I was merely being polite.
00:25:43Charming, isn't she, Jane?
00:25:45I think you should see this.
00:25:46Come on.
00:25:47What?
00:25:47Phase four.
00:25:48Anti-kidder campaign.
00:26:00Splendid.
00:26:03Dinner at eight, please, Jane.
00:26:08Dinner at eight, please, Jane.
00:26:38I see you made yourself comfortable.
00:27:08I trust you have no objection.
00:27:12Maybe.
00:27:17I shouldn't make yourself too comfortable if I was you.
00:27:21Let's go.
00:27:51Let's go.
00:28:21Oh, who are you?
00:28:30I'm the new maid, sir.
00:28:33Dr. Quintlin, you get used to seeing me here.
00:28:37Alexander, I suppose.
00:28:39Yes, I'm afraid, sir.
00:28:40Well, Mr. Akenthorpe will be expecting me.
00:28:43Oh, yes. I'll show you up.
00:28:44Oh, that won't be.
00:28:53You're a doctor.
00:28:55Well, there's my confounded matches.
00:28:57Oh, it's you.
00:29:00Good morning.
00:29:01Good morning.
00:29:02What are you doing in here?
00:29:03Snooping, I suppose.
00:29:05Where are my matches?
00:29:11If you're going to smoke, we'd better have some windows open.
00:29:14I'm a great believer in fresh air.
00:29:16Aren't you, Doctor?
00:29:17Why, uh, yes, I am.
00:29:19Miss, uh, Marple, her name.
00:29:22Marple, her nature.
00:29:25That's right.
00:29:26Let her give me double pneumonia.
00:29:29You can't kill me off one way or kill me off another.
00:29:33Nonsense.
00:29:33You're going to live to be a hundred in spite of anything I can do.
00:29:36Well, in that case, tell that woman to stop opening windows and to light my cheroot.
00:29:41Is there any chance that will send him to sleep, Doctor?
00:29:44I'm afraid it's a stimulant.
00:29:48Roll over.
00:29:50Oh, dear.
00:29:53Hold it closer, woman.
00:29:57No!
00:29:59No!
00:29:59Your hometown lost a good horse, Doctor, when you left, Crimper.
00:30:07Matter of fact, I was very bad with the horses.
00:30:09How'd the birthday party go?
00:30:11All the family get down all right?
00:30:12Of course they did.
00:30:14They had a whole weekend of it.
00:30:16Free board and lodging from Friday night.
00:30:18Friday?
00:30:19What's that to do with you?
00:30:21Oh, nothing.
00:30:22I just happened to be an interesting day for me, too.
00:30:25How old were you, Mr. Lackenthorpe?
00:30:27Mind your business.
00:30:28Anyhow, it was a miserable weekend.
00:30:32And I hope it'll be a long time before I have to put up with a whole pack of them again.
00:30:36Not a very nice way to talk about one's family.
00:30:39Not a very nice family.
00:30:40And you know what that overgrown beatnik Cedric did?
00:30:43Told Emma right in front of my eyes she ought to get out of here.
00:30:46Get married or something.
00:30:47Trying to make her as selfish as he is.
00:30:49Oh, I don't know.
00:30:50If Emma did marry, it wouldn't be such a bad thing.
00:30:55Oh, Father, I thought I'd tell you I'm just going into town.
00:30:58I'll be leaving in a moment.
00:30:59Can I give you a lift?
00:31:00What do you want to go into town for?
00:31:02Can't she go for whatever it is?
00:31:03Well, it's tradesmen, Father.
00:31:04A few bills to pay.
00:31:06Oh, money.
00:31:06Well, that's a different thing.
00:31:08Can't trust anybody these days.
00:31:10All right, off you go.
00:31:12In that case, may I be of service?
00:31:13Oh, thank you.
00:31:14Of course you can, Quimper.
00:31:15Save the price of a taxi.
00:31:17Pay you enough as it is.
00:31:18It'll be on your bill.
00:31:20Are you ready now?
00:31:20Only my coat.
00:31:21Good.
00:31:22Friday then, Miss Arcanthorpe.
00:31:23Good day, Miss Marble.
00:31:25Good day, Doctor.
00:31:26If you don't shut those windows, you'll be fired.
00:31:30In that case, I shall require four weeks' waitress in lieu of notice.
00:31:34Get out of my sight, woman!
00:31:37With pleasure.
00:32:04Your weight isn't quite evenly distributed.
00:32:21I'll have you know that I won the Lady's Open Handicap in 1921.
00:32:25Really?
00:32:27I'm sure you have many things to do.
00:32:29Not at all, I'm most interested.
00:32:31We've never had a golf playing made before.
00:32:33You may have heard that this is the age of the common woman.
00:32:40You hooked.
00:32:42I'm aware of it.
00:32:52You know something?
00:32:54What?
00:32:54I believe you pulled those shots on purpose.
00:32:58Alexander, if you wish to be helpful at all, will you kindly look for the hook?
00:33:02Look while I look for the slice.
00:33:06Yes, sir.
00:33:07Yes, sir.
00:33:12Yes, sir.
00:33:16Yes, sir.
00:34:17Found yours yet?
00:34:21Yes. Have you?
00:34:23Disappeared without a trace.
00:34:24Oh, well, fortunately I have some more.
00:34:27At the present rate, you're going to need them.
00:34:30Perhaps you'd care to demonstrate the next one.
00:34:34Certainly.
00:34:38Let's see how close you can get to those outbuildings.
00:34:41Yes, I think that's possible.
00:34:54Fair.
00:34:56Hmm. You know perfectly well it was superb for a boy of my age.
00:35:10Right on the fairway.
00:35:12A chip and a putt and I'd have holed out in three.
00:35:14Does your grandfather keep horses, Alexander?
00:35:18He did.
00:35:19Now he just keeps a few relics of a more spacious age.
00:35:22Nostalgia, you know.
00:35:23A failing of the old, I suppose.
00:35:25Like to look.
00:35:27Well, I think I'm old enough, don't you?
00:35:29Oh, an old-fashioned pony-shave.
00:35:40They used that for going to the village.
00:35:42I suppose they used Victoria for going to church.
00:35:44Yes, on Sundays in the summer, I believe.
00:35:48And the brouhams for visiting in the winter, perhaps.
00:35:50Yes, I expect so.
00:35:52It's supposed to be haunted here, you know.
00:35:54Grandfather found a man hanging from this rafter.
00:35:57Good heavens.
00:35:57He'd been dead for a week.
00:35:58That will do, Alexander.
00:35:59All purple, you know.
00:36:00Alexander.
00:36:03What was that?
00:36:04I wonder.
00:36:05All right.
00:36:06I'll look.
00:36:07All yours.
00:36:11Dear, dear, we are nervous, aren't we?
00:36:14Pity.
00:36:16Well, what did you expect to find?
00:36:18Bodies.
00:36:19What?
00:36:20Live ones, of course.
00:36:22Used to be quite the spot for courting couples from the town.
00:36:24Really?
00:36:25Two grandfathers got Hillman to put a stop to it.
00:36:27Spoil sport.
00:36:28Quite extraordinary, the goings-on here.
00:36:31Apparently, there was this girl...
00:36:32That's enough, Alexander.
00:36:34There may be some other poor bird trapped.
00:36:44Look at this.
00:36:59Somebody else must have been in here.
00:37:01This isn't Aunt Emma's.
00:37:02It's mine.
00:37:03I must have dropped it.
00:37:05Thank you so much.
00:37:06It was bequeathed to me.
00:37:09You're not by any chance on the run from the police, are you?
00:37:12Too much television.
00:37:13You must learn to rationalize your imagination.
00:37:17What's behind there?
00:37:19More relics from the past?
00:37:21Matter of fact, yes.
00:37:22The fruits of grandfather's Egyptian phase.
00:37:25Indeed.
00:37:25How interesting.
00:37:40No one's a note in there.
00:37:42Let go of my wrist.
00:37:43What are you up to?
00:37:43Up to?
00:37:44The boy was simply showing me round.
00:37:46What boy?
00:37:47Alexander.
00:37:48You're lying.
00:37:50Alexander, come out of there at once.
00:37:55I thought discretion the better part of valour, Jane.
00:37:58This fellow's not about clipping a person's ear.
00:38:01You know your grandfather don't like no one sneaking round here.
00:38:04Don't think I won't tell him neither.
00:38:06Despite the double negatives, I'm sure you will.
00:38:09Come, Jane.
00:38:11Good for you, young man.
00:38:25What's the difference?
00:38:41Do you know what's going on?
00:38:44I don't know.
00:38:49I don't know.
00:38:50Here we go.
00:39:20Here we go.
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00:43:22I'll follow you up.
00:43:32Whoever it was tried to get her in here first.
00:43:34It's taken the strength of a maniac to shift it this far.
00:43:38Inspector?
00:43:40Oh, yes, Doctor.
00:43:42I don't know whether this is being helpful.
00:43:46Go on.
00:43:48Well, the woman, no one recognized her,
00:43:50and her clothes struck me as being foreign, perhaps French.
00:43:54Hmm.
00:43:56Yes, that's very interesting.
00:43:58Yes, thank you, Doctor.
00:44:00Well, it was just a thought.
00:44:02Maybe a useful one.
00:44:12Well, that'd explain why I didn't recognize her, sir.
00:44:14I knew every face for miles around.
00:44:16I'm sure you do, Sergeant.
00:44:18Still, I have to start with the assumption
00:44:20there's some connection between her and the family.
00:44:22I think I'll get the whole bunch down here.
00:44:24Hmm.
00:44:26Don't be firewake, sir.
00:44:28They hate the sight of each other.
00:44:30So I believe.
00:44:32Anyway, routine first.
00:44:34They got any other servants apart from this gardener?
00:44:36Yes, they have, Inspector.
00:44:42Good Lord.
00:44:44You?
00:44:45Yes.
00:44:46Dotty old me.
00:45:06In there, please.
00:45:08It's only a cigarette packet of doubtful significance, I'd say.
00:45:12I'll bear your views in mind.
00:45:14Any idea what you expect your fellows to find?
00:45:18Clues.
00:45:20Well, naturally.
00:45:21But do you seriously think they'll find anything?
00:45:23Well, somebody dragged the body from there over to there.
00:45:28It's possible something could have been dropped in the process.
00:45:32Don't you agree?
00:45:33Yes.
00:45:34Yes, I do.
00:45:35Did you find anything?
00:45:36No, Inspector.
00:45:37Not a thing.
00:45:38Family's here, by the way.
00:45:41I'll get around to them later.
00:45:43They'll enjoy that, I'm sure.
00:45:45Good hunting.
00:45:47Some silly idiot goes and strangles his girlfriend, which he probably richly deserved.
00:45:55And what do they do?
00:45:57Swarm all over the place.
00:45:59Mess them out in our private affairs.
00:46:01I said to this Inspector fellow Haddock, or whatever his name is.
00:46:05Craddock, sir.
00:46:07Shall I pour?
00:46:08Of course.
00:46:10Anyway, I said to this fellow, Haddock.
00:46:13That no member of my family had ever seen the woman before.
00:46:15That was final.
00:46:16Well, what makes you so sure of that, Father?
00:46:18Oh, now, look here, Cedric.
00:46:19This is absurd.
00:46:20Well, after all, Harold, she wasn't somebody from around here.
00:46:22And she once found in our stable, wasn't she?
00:46:25One of us could have known her.
00:46:27She could have been your girlfriend, dear boy.
00:46:29What?
00:46:30Yes.
00:46:31I suppose Cedric has a point there.
00:46:34He never has a point.
00:46:35I mean from the police point of view.
00:46:37It's all right for you, Eastleigh.
00:46:38I don't suppose you're too concerned with the family reputation.
00:46:41After all, you're not a member of it, are you?
00:46:44Strictly speaking.
00:46:45What I can't understand is who telephoned the police.
00:46:47Oh, I know who did that.
00:46:50Hello?
00:46:52Who?
00:46:53Obviously, someone who knew the body was there.
00:46:57Any coffee left, Jane?
00:47:00Help yourself.
00:47:02There certainly wasn't one of us.
00:47:05Who knows?
00:47:06Who cares who did it, anyway?
00:47:08The woman was probably a spy.
00:47:09That's absurd, Father.
00:47:11Well, the police think she was a foreigner, don't they?
00:47:13Well, lots of English girls go to Paris and buy French clothes.
00:47:16Decent ones, don't you?
00:47:18Dr. Quimper to see you, Mr. Akenthorpe.
00:47:20Oh, still getting shot with revitalizers, Father?
00:47:24I'd take anything to outlive you lot and keep my property from your thieving hands.
00:47:34Well, I'll just go and see if I can be of any further assistance to the police.
00:47:38Delicious coffee, Jane.
00:47:44By the way, the inspector said he'd be interrogating you all later.
00:47:47Better get your alibis ready.
00:47:51Oh, he's a bright boy, that one.
00:47:53Well, let's face it.
00:47:54The police say the woman was murdered on Friday and we were down here last Friday.
00:47:58They're going to be very interested in all of us.
00:48:00None of us were here till quite late.
00:48:02Yes, but the point is, what were we all doing earlier?
00:48:06Albert, what about you?
00:48:09Me?
00:48:10Yes, you.
00:48:11And don't tell me you're sitting in your office all day.
00:48:13I, well, no.
00:48:15Uh-huh.
00:48:16As a matter of fact, there was a film that I particularly wanted to see of Brigitte Bardot.
00:48:21Oh, look, Cedric, this is preposterous.
00:48:23Oh, what is it, Harold?
00:48:25Anyway, what about you?
00:48:27Or can your secretary verify all your movements on that day?
00:48:30That's none of your business.
00:48:32Well, I'm in the clear.
00:48:33I was at my club.
00:48:35Well, it has a back door, hasn't it?
00:48:38Yes, I think so.
00:48:39But I didn't get here until Saturday.
00:48:42But you could have lugged the body up here on Friday, slip back to London,
00:48:46and be sitting in your usual chair when the club closed.
00:48:50And I suppose one of your women friends can vouch for you.
00:48:53Well, I'm certain my current comfort will satisfy the inspector completely.
00:48:57Has no doubt will your secretary.
00:49:00When you've finished here, you'll kindly bring me some fresh coffee into the library.
00:49:05Certainly, sir.
00:49:07Oh, well, jumpy, isn't he?
00:49:10And you're very calm.
00:49:12But then I've no reason not to be.
00:49:14I've just been thinking, if that woman was foreign...
00:49:23You should think of girls more often, Albert.
00:49:25Might bring about some interesting changes in you.
00:49:27I know it's laughable.
00:49:28I agree.
00:49:29No, but I mean, if she was French, it could be her, I suppose.
00:49:34Why'd I give up?
00:49:35Could be who?
00:49:36That Martine woman.
00:49:38Martine?
00:49:39Yes.
00:49:40You know that French farm girl we had all the trouble about?
00:49:43The one Edmund was so infatuated with before he was killed.
00:49:46But that was ages ago.
00:49:47Yes, I know.
00:49:49Still, I suppose it is possible.
00:49:52But why should she turn up dead in our stable 16 years later?
00:49:56Oh, it's preposterous.
00:49:58Well, it isn't my idea.
00:50:00Well, whose idea is it, then?
00:50:02Well, Emma's.
00:50:05Emma?
00:50:06Emma's?
00:50:08That's odd.
00:50:15Paul.
00:50:22No, Paul.
00:50:23Please.
00:50:24How much longer are we going on like this, Emma?
00:50:25We've got to tell the old man whether he likes it or not.
00:50:27Not yet.
00:50:28Please, not yet.
00:50:29Why?
00:50:30Why?
00:50:31Paul, I...
00:50:32I think someone in the family may be a murderer.
00:50:35Emma?
00:50:36I've had a letter.
00:50:37I...
00:50:38I've had a letter.
00:50:39I...
00:50:40I...
00:50:41I've had a letter.
00:50:42I...
00:50:43I've had a letter.
00:50:44I...
00:50:45I've had a letter.
00:50:46I've had a letter.
00:50:47I've had a letter.
00:50:48I've had a letter.
00:50:51I've had a letter.
00:50:52I...
00:50:53I can't keep it to myself any longer.
00:50:55I want you to read it.
00:50:58I'm afraid my French isn't up to this, Emma.
00:51:01Oh.
00:51:02Dear Miss Ackenthorpe,
00:51:04you will be surprised to hear after so many years that you have a sister-in-law.
00:51:09I married your brother, Edmund, two days before he was killed in action.
00:51:13I decided it was best to forget the marriage, but now I'm planning a visit to England,
00:51:18and I find I do wish to meet you all.
00:51:21I write to you instead of your father because I understand he is a sick man,
00:51:26and my existence may come as a shock to him, as it must be to you all.
00:51:31Sincerely yours, Martine Ackenthorpe.
00:51:35But I thought Edmund was killed before they had a chance to marry.
00:51:39That's what we all thought.
00:51:41What's on your mind, Edmund?
00:51:43Oh, don't you see?
00:51:44The strangled woman, it must have been Martine.
00:51:46Listen, if she could have proved she was really Edmund's widow,
00:51:49she'd have been entitled to a share in the will.
00:51:51Oh, I see.
00:51:53Paul, what shall I do?
00:51:56Have you told the others?
00:51:58No.
00:51:59I did suggest to Albert that if the woman was French, she might be Martine.
00:52:03What did he say?
00:52:04He said it was fantastic, but I think he was worried.
00:52:11You'll have to tell the police.
00:52:13They're bound to think one of the family did this.
00:52:15What else can you do?
00:52:16I don't know. I don't know.
00:52:18I think you must tell them.
00:52:21I'll have to think about this.
00:52:24You'd better go.
00:52:38Good afternoon.
00:52:39Good afternoon.
00:52:51Good afternoon.
00:53:21Oh, there you are. The train was late, Miss Marpley. Oh, good evening, Inspector. I suppose you knew about this
00:53:40compact business, too. Well, I... Before I did, no doubt. Well, you see, I thought it best to bring the
00:53:45Inspector in on this after all, Mr. Spears. Very wise, very wise. I'm glad you think so. Withholding information from the police is a very serious matter. Oh, I know, Inspector, and I'm most awfully sorry. Will you take tea? Oh, thank you, no. Don't you realize what this means? The compact having been stolen from your room? Coffee, perhaps. It means that the thief and the murderer are almost certainly one and the same, and that he or she is in that house, and that your life may be in great danger. Oh, I say.
00:54:15Do you really think so? I must ask you to give the whole thing up immediately. Tonight. Yes, of course. Indeed, you must, Miss Marple.
00:54:27Very well, then. I'll give in my notice tomorrow. Good. That's settled then. It has to be a month's notice, you know. Will you have a small beer, Inspector? Miss Marple, I... Oh, what's the use?
00:54:45Uh, good night. Good night. Good night. Well, now, how did you get on at the probate registry? Well, really, Miss Marple, I think, in view of what the Inspector said. Did you see the will?
00:54:58Yes. And what did it say? Well, old Mr. Ackenthorpe's father obviously didn't get on very well with him. I'm not surprised at that. Go on. You see, the house and the income from the family fortune are his, but he can't touch the fortune itself.
00:55:15That's the first point. Yes. The second point is that the fortune goes to his children on his death.
00:55:24That is, to Emma, Cedric, Harold, and Albert. Yes.
00:55:27Two of the others named in the will, Edith and Edmund, are already dead, of course.
00:55:31Hmm. Not much more for the rest, eh? Well, young Alexander, Edith's son, gets her share.
00:55:36Oh, what about the boy's father, Eastleigh? Next of kin, only come in for a share if there's no issue of a marriage.
00:55:41So Eastleigh's only interest is how much young Alexander gets.
00:55:45It's a quimper to see you, sir. Oh, yes. Send him in.
00:55:49Your call to the probate registry has been very useful. Thanks.
00:55:53Morning, Inspector. Good morning, Doctor. Sit down. Thank you.
00:55:57Have you found out who the woman is yet?
00:56:01The, uh, French police haven't come up with anything so far, sir.
00:56:04Oh, you are working on the assumption that she's French, then?
00:56:07The clothes and makeup did turn out to be made in Paris, yes.
00:56:11Is that what you wanted to see me about?
00:56:13No, sir.
00:56:16I understand, last Christmas, old Mr. Agenthorpe had a stomach upset.
00:56:20Yes, he's inclined to overindulge when there's too much rich food about.
00:56:23But he said you'd asked him a lot of questions.
00:56:27So you suspected arsenic poisoning.
00:56:29All right.
00:56:31For the moment, I did suspect something was a bit odd.
00:56:34Didn't you run a food test? No.
00:56:35Why not?
00:56:37Well, it was nothing positive.
00:56:39No history of chronic gastric troubles such as one would expect to find in the classic method of arsenic poisoning.
00:56:45You mean small doses administered regularly?
00:56:47Exactly.
00:56:50Excuse me.
00:56:53Yes?
00:56:56Oh, great, sir.
00:56:58Oh, put her on.
00:57:00Miss Agenthorpe.
00:57:02Am I?
00:57:05Yes.
00:57:08Hello.
00:57:09Oh, morning.
00:57:10I've had a letter.
00:57:12I see.
00:57:14Well, uh, would you read the letter to me?
00:57:17You will be surprised to hear after so many years of the UN.
00:57:21I am planning a letter to England, and I find I use it for you.
00:57:26I'd like to send round for that letter, if you don't mind, Miss Agenthorpe.
00:57:30Yes, we'll check with the French police.
00:57:33Good morning.
00:57:34Do you know what that was about, Doctor?
00:57:38Yes, I... I think I do.
00:57:41Why didn't you tell me?
00:57:43I'm in love with Emma, Inspector. I want to marry her.
00:57:48And I told her I thought she ought to tell you about this.
00:57:52But you didn't insist?
00:57:53No.
00:57:54It was important to me, to us, that she made up her own mind.
00:57:58I understand, Doctor.
00:57:59Well, thank you. Is... is that all?
00:58:04Doctor, do you think the dead woman is Martine Agenthorpe?
00:58:07Well, who else could it be?
00:58:09Do you think she was killed by a member of the family?
00:58:13I'd rather not answer that, Inspector.
00:58:16All right, Doctor.
00:58:18Thank you very much.
00:58:30Well, sir?
00:58:33I'm worried, Bacon.
00:58:35About the doctor?
00:58:36No, no, not him.
00:58:38I'm worried about Miss Marple.
00:58:59I'm worried about Miss Marple.
00:59:00Let's go.
00:59:01Let's go.
00:59:29Looking for something, sir?
00:59:34Are you... are you all right?
00:59:39Yes, perfectly, thank you, Mr. Eastleigh.
00:59:41What is it you want?
00:59:43Well, I just thought I'd take out the old boy's nightcap and save you the trouble.
00:59:47Oh, that's kind of you.
00:59:49It is ready.
00:59:59Storm, I expect.
01:00:01The electricity supply is rather shaky, like the rest of the place.
01:00:05You're a little shaky, too, aren't you?
01:00:07Oh, no, not at all.
01:00:29Thank you, Mr. Eastleigh.
01:00:59Oh, my goodness, what are you doing?
01:01:17Looking for light.
01:01:18You ought to be asleep.
01:01:20I happen to be reading.
01:01:22Oh.
01:01:24May I ask what you're doing?
01:01:26Trying to provide light.
01:01:28Oh, I see.
01:01:29Well, you won't find it there, you know.
01:01:31Indeed.
01:01:32It's a power failure.
01:01:33Often happens.
01:01:34May I borrow this?
01:01:35Alexander, come back.
01:01:37Good night, Jane.
01:01:47Who's that?
01:01:48Who is it?
01:01:52Oh, Mr. Eastleigh.
01:01:54It's a power failure.
01:01:56Often happens.
01:01:57I'll have to find some candles, if you'll excuse me.
01:01:59Just a minute.
01:02:00My sister said you started work here only a few days ago.
01:02:04Yes.
01:02:05You don't look like a domestic to me.
01:02:08I have to earn my living, Mr. Lackenthorpe, like anybody else.
01:02:12But the day after you arrived, the body was discovered.
01:02:15You found it, didn't you?
01:02:17What makes you think that?
01:02:18Because it fits.
01:02:19And so neatly.
01:02:21You telephoned the police, didn't you?
01:02:24I assure you I am not the person who telephoned the police.
01:02:27You are not?
01:02:28No.
01:02:29Who are you?
01:02:30Who are you?
01:02:31What are you doing here?
01:02:32I have already told you.
01:02:36Well, I'm going to watch you very closely, Miss Marple.
01:02:39Jane.
01:02:40Oh, Helmut.
01:02:41I want to have a word with you.
01:03:14Lord, I'm going to have to work with you.
01:03:16Yes.
01:03:17You would have to step out of the dock.
01:03:18Let's go.
01:03:34Bill! Bill!
01:03:41I have to be sad. Help!
01:03:48What is it?
01:03:56Alexander, call the doctor.
01:03:58Quickly!
01:04:03There's nothing I can do for him, I'm afraid, Inspector.
01:04:06How are the others now?
01:04:08Well, Emma, Cedric, Harold and Eastleigh have had only comparatively minor effects.
01:04:13And the old man will be all right. He's a tough old bird.
01:04:16They'll be recovered by morning.
01:04:21No doubts about the cause?
01:04:23No. They're all poisoned.
01:04:25No. Thank you, Doctor.
01:04:28Cripper! Cripper!
01:04:30Harold, I might have expected him to bellow the hardest.
01:04:34This is the last chicken stock.
01:04:51Finished, Sergeant?
01:04:52Just about, sir.
01:04:53I see that stock gets down at the lab right away.
01:04:55I'm pretty well all through for tonight.
01:05:04Well, Miss Marple?
01:05:06Mushroom soup,
01:05:08curried duck, rice, and apple pie.
01:05:11Ah, thank you.
01:05:13Mushroom soup out of a can, I suppose.
01:05:14Certainly not.
01:05:15Half a pound of mushrooms, chicken stock, milk, flour, butter, lemon juice.
01:05:21Touch of herbs.
01:05:23Mushrooms.
01:05:25I had some of the soup myself.
01:05:27Superb.
01:05:29I'm sure.
01:05:30The pie.
01:05:32I'm afraid I never can resist my own pie, Inspector.
01:05:35Anybody else's, of course.
01:05:37The curry.
01:05:38Exactly.
01:05:40Good, of course.
01:05:41But rice, you see.
01:05:43Fattening.
01:05:44And as I was having the pie...
01:05:48Where did the duck come from?
01:05:50Oh, those.
01:05:51Mr. Harold chopped them.
01:05:52He seems to be rather fond of killing things.
01:05:57The boy, Alexander, he doesn't seem to have had any curry either.
01:06:00No.
01:06:01Not a good appeal to him.
01:06:03Curious child.
01:06:04Well, did anyone come into the kitchen while the cooking was going on?
01:06:10Not while I was there.
01:06:12I do have other duties, you know.
01:06:15Anyone could have come in then?
01:06:18Six people are poisoned.
01:06:21Only one dies.
01:06:24I'm thinking about that too, Inspector.
01:06:29Excuse me, sir.
01:06:30Message from the Chief Constable.
01:06:31He's waiting up to hear your report.
01:06:33All right.
01:06:35In person, sir.
01:06:36Right, Sergeant.
01:06:37Get the car around.
01:06:38I'll be out in a minute.
01:06:39Very good.
01:06:43I think the two killings are connected.
01:06:46Don't you?
01:06:47Yes, I do.
01:06:48Now, we've got to find out who has that compact, Miss Marple.
01:06:51So far, I've only been able to search one room.
01:06:54No.
01:06:55Whose?
01:06:56Unfortunately.
01:06:57Albert's.
01:06:58Oh.
01:07:00Miss Marple, I have to go now.
01:07:02Oh, yes.
01:07:03I know.
01:07:04A policeman's work is never done.
01:07:08Or a woman's.
01:07:09I was going to say, please be careful.
01:07:14And if you do think of anything, I hope you'll take me into your confidence this time.
01:07:18Well, I don't know.
01:07:19I think I've got to go now.
01:07:20I've got my confidence this time.
01:07:21I'm going to go now.
01:07:22I don't know.
01:07:23I've got a man's work.
01:07:24I've got to go now.
01:07:25But, you know, I've got to go now.
01:07:26Oh, yes.
01:07:27I've got to go now.
01:07:28Oh, yes.
01:07:29I've got to go now.
01:07:30I've got to go now.
01:07:31And I've got to go now.
01:07:32the lab boys turned it up as arsenic in the curry not a lot just enough for stomach aches all the
01:07:57way round not enough to kill so albert must have had an extra dose yes but why poison the others at
01:08:04all if the poisoner is a member of the family he had to be ill as well well say it isn't sir i mean
01:08:11that gardener of theirs hillman there's talk in the local pub that he's in for a nice little
01:08:16bequest when old acenthorpe goes what is the possibility sir i'm getting the dead woman
01:08:21begging this poisoner makes it pretty certain to me that she was martine acenthorpe oh french
01:08:27police come up for something then only there's no record of a marriage the village where edmund
01:08:32acenthorpe was stationed was blown to bits during the war all the files and the town hall destroyed
01:08:37well then sir don't you see bacon it's the pattern of the killings only a member of the family would
01:08:42want to get rid of her too yes kill off all your relations at easy stages except the old man when
01:08:48he dies a natural death inherit the entire fortune as well as the property albert must have got his
01:08:54second dose after dinner possibly in a drink
01:08:58i shouldn't drink that why not because it's lunchtime oh what is it beef broth baked custard
01:09:17beef broth but i ordered beef steak the doctor said beef broth what are the blazes with him i give
01:09:23the orders in this house i'm sick of slops take it away certainly
01:09:27dear
01:09:34hilbert another bottle surely you realize that if the woman was martine by showing that letter to the
01:09:43police you've pointed the finger at one of us not only for her death but albert's too
01:09:47exactly one of us i might have expected that from you oh come now you're thinking along exactly the
01:09:53same lines as i am if you didn't do it that is you're probably thinking it was me stop it stop it
01:10:01oh even you dear emma look i think we've had just about enough of this nonsense i bet the police don't
01:10:06think it's nonsense oh now listen cedric say what you like about the rest of us but please leave emma out
01:10:11well it could be argued you know that emma kept that letter to herself until she could use it to
01:10:18her own advantage
01:10:19why
01:10:20i think you'd better explain that well let's face it the moment martine's body was discovered
01:10:27everyone in this family was under suspicion including you emma and the moment you produced
01:10:33that letter voluntarily everyone was under suspicion excluding you
01:10:38i hadn't thought of it like that you must be around the bend that woman was strangled
01:10:48do you think your sister capable of doing a thing like that oh but uh emma's an attractive woman don't
01:10:53you think so well well an attractive woman doesn't need to do her own dirty work does she
01:11:01come along emma i think we'd better leave them to it
01:11:03now now eastley emma has her eye on the good doctor you know i mean it's not going to be so
01:11:09easy for you to marry into the family for a second time oh that hit home didn't it yes and i'm about
01:11:16ready to break your blasted neck very possibly but tell me something first you deny meeting emma
01:11:23secretly in the grounds the night before the body was discovered
01:11:25well i had hillman saw you you know all right we didn't meet that night yes he asked me to
01:11:35intercede with father oh what for i wanted to borrow money if you must know
01:11:55oh my goodness
01:12:25what are you doing making up the bed but you made it up this morning
01:12:45yes but the pillow slips need changing they look perfectly all right to me but not to me
01:12:51oh what am i doing
01:13:01oh i do wish that woman would hurry up they know i don't like being here after dark
01:13:06what do you fear dog some man will get you
01:13:11you know it's funny how things always come together my sister's eldest had measles and then
01:13:16her ernie fell and broke his arm and her husband come out all over with boils all in the same week
01:13:21you wouldn't believe it would you it's gonna be the same thing here first that nasty murder and then
01:13:28mr albert poisoned who's gonna be the next i'd like to know things always go in threes well here you are
01:13:36mrs skiller i'm sorry to have kept you but the doctor has been with mr acanthorpe hmm long wait for very little
01:13:41the younger generation well i don't know
01:13:49the younger generation well i don't know
01:14:01oh
01:14:13uh
01:14:15What's the matter with you?
01:14:45It's Mr. Harold.
01:14:50When is it to use this on himself or does somebody else pull the trigger?
01:14:54Well, it led up. It was suicide.
01:14:56Harold killed the other two, got cold feet, and took what is laughingly called the easy way out.
01:15:00All of them knew he liked an hour or two shooting before dinner whenever he was at the hall.
01:15:05But he was shot from a range of about two inches.
01:15:08All right. Someone who knows comes up to him, casually asks to have a look at the gun, and...
01:15:14Still could have been suicide, then.
01:15:16If I were the murderer, that's exactly what I'd want us to think.
01:15:19One thing's sure, we can't risk any more killings. Come on.
01:15:23Where to, sir?
01:15:24The hall. I'm gonna find that compact if I have to turn the whole place and everyone in it upside down.
01:15:31Oh, excuse me, sir. There's a lady to see you, sir. Miss Marple.
01:15:35Oh, come in. Good afternoon, Miss Marple.
01:15:39You were going somewhere?
01:15:40Yes.
01:15:41Then I'll come to the point at once.
01:15:52A beautiful little piece, isn't it?
01:15:54Who had it?
01:16:00Young Alexander.
01:16:02What?
01:16:03I should have realized, of course, that boy is incorrigible.
01:16:06Playing it in the middle of the night like that. Typical.
01:16:09So we're back where we started.
01:16:11Oh, no, Inspector.
01:16:13I think I know who our murderer is.
01:16:17The difficulty is going to be getting him to show his hand.
01:16:20I think I can't.
01:16:23Sit down, Miss Marple.
01:16:36Oh, hold that expression, Emma.
01:16:38Oh, pity you sported.
01:16:42What's the matter, darling? Things not working out for you?
01:16:45How do you manage to make everything you say sound like an insinuation?
01:16:48He works at it.
01:16:49For heaven's sake, stop fussing, Quimper.
01:16:52If I wish to come down, I shall do so.
01:16:55I think this, Joe Hillman.
01:16:57Father, don't you think that...
01:16:58Don't you start.
01:16:59Sorry, Emma, but you know what he's like when his mind is made up.
01:17:02I'm not going to stay up there all alone.
01:17:05I might get murdered in me bed.
01:17:07At least there's some safety in numbers.
01:17:09I quite agree with you, Father.
01:17:10Well, that makes a nice change.
01:17:12I want a drink.
01:17:13No, not you, Quimper.
01:17:15Then I must be going.
01:17:16Don't smother me with it, man. Put it by me knees.
01:17:19Oh, this is all very nice and cosy.
01:17:20How about a rubber bridge?
01:17:22Oh, it's just a thought.
01:17:24What have you got there, boy?
01:17:25Oh, a charming little thing.
01:17:26French, Second Empire.
01:17:27Pretty valuable, I'd say.
01:17:28Where'd you get it?
01:17:29It belongs to Miss Marple.
01:17:30Huh?
01:17:31You'd better give it back to her, haven't you?
01:17:32I only borrowed it.
01:17:33I'll drop it in on my way to bed.
01:17:34Oh.
01:17:35Oh, I'm so smart.
01:17:36Oh...
01:17:37Oh, who's so smart?
01:17:38Oh, I'm so smart.
01:17:39Yeah, you're so smart.
01:17:40I'm very smart.
01:17:41All right.
01:17:42Don't, that's just a little last one.
01:17:43Why don't you get it?
01:17:44Yeah, you should be doing this.
01:17:45Oh, golly.
01:17:46If you're going to get me to go home,
01:17:47or what?
01:17:48I know you've got to do it before.
01:17:49Oh, I wonder if you're going to get me on the bike.
01:17:50Yeah.
01:17:51How do you get it?
01:17:52I'm like a lumberjack,
01:17:53and I'm just going to get you on the boat.
01:17:54Oh, my.
01:17:55That's a nice thing.
01:18:26Come in, doctor.
01:18:53You're expecting me.
01:18:56Didn't Alexander tell you?
01:18:59Tell me what?
01:19:03Forgetful boy.
01:19:05I have a sore throat, doctor.
01:19:07And I asked him to ask you to be kind enough to have a look at it before you left.
01:19:12I see.
01:19:15I'm sorry to trouble you.
01:19:16I haven't had one of these throats in years.
01:19:18Well, you've been lucky, Miss Marple.
01:19:20Any headaches?
01:19:22No, just the sore throat.
01:19:24Well, we'll have a look.
01:19:29This is rather attractive.
01:19:31Yes, isn't it?
01:19:32Where did you get it?
01:19:34I found it.
01:19:35Oh, where?
01:19:36In the stables here.
01:19:38Really?
01:19:39Open wide, please.
01:19:44Say, ah.
01:19:45Ah.
01:19:47No inflammation.
01:19:50Don't you think that was a little dishonest?
01:19:52Keeping the compact, I mean?
01:19:54Under the circumstances, doctor, no.
01:19:56Is there any swelling?
01:20:02I don't think so.
01:20:08I've seen you like that once before, doctor.
01:20:11Your hands at a woman's throat.
01:20:13It was on a train.
01:20:15And you were strangling her.
01:20:16That's quite an allegation.
01:20:28I have a few more.
01:20:31Oh?
01:20:32You come for the compact because you had given it to that woman.
01:20:36And it might be traced back to you.
01:20:40I think she was your wife.
01:20:43Do you?
01:20:43Well, you killed her after you had written that letter to Emma, signing it, Martine Ackenthorpe.
01:20:52Why should I do that?
01:20:54The murder, so that you would then be free to marry Emma.
01:20:59The letter, so that people would think the dead woman was Martine and look among the family for the killer.
01:21:07Never at you.
01:21:13How did you arrive at this fascinating hypothesis?
01:21:20It was I who found her body.
01:21:22Martine was, or is, for all I know, a Normandy peasant.
01:21:27The dead woman had never worked on a farm in her life.
01:21:30I saw her hands.
01:21:33Go on.
01:21:34I saw her.
01:21:35Certainly.
01:21:37You then proceeded to augment your prospects by eliminating Albert and Harold.
01:21:43How conceivably?
01:21:46You contrived to introduce arsenic into my curry, which I find unforgivable, by the way.
01:21:53Knowing that you would be called on to deal with the after effects.
01:21:57It was easy, then, to give Albert his final dose in the medicine.
01:22:02And Harold?
01:22:03You shot him and made it look like suicide.
01:22:08Ingenious, I must admit.
01:22:10More than that.
01:22:12It's rather that you are here to secure your dead wife's confere.
01:22:16A fair case.
01:22:19Yes.
01:22:21A pity you won't be able to present it.
01:22:23One more murder, Doctor.
01:22:26Might be one too many.
01:22:29This won't look like murder, Miss Markle.
01:22:31The death certificate signed by me, of course, will register heart failure.
01:22:35You all right?
01:22:40Yes, sir.
01:22:42You're under arrest, and I must warn you...
01:22:45That everything I've said has been taken down and will be used in evidence.
01:22:49You were right about everything, of course.
01:22:53You're a very brave woman, Miss Markle.
01:23:15Good night.
01:23:16Good night.
01:23:43time too. I was coming up to see you you know before leaving. no need to leave. I
01:23:50have my own home. sell it. why on earth should I? well taking one thing in
01:23:58another. I mean if you're a fair cook and you seem to have your wits about you
01:24:06and well I've decided to marry you. well? well I'm honored of course. of course you
01:24:17are but come to the point. I'm afraid that cannot be. why? well if ever I do embark on
01:24:24such a venture there is someone else. nonsense. I don't believe it. who on earth
01:24:32would have you? apparently you for one, Mr. Ackenthorpe. goodbye.
01:24:48the woman must be completely unbalanced.
01:24:52oh Miss Marple, I'm so glad. how good of you to come. let me give you a hand. thank you.
01:25:02oh Miss Marple.