Mörder ahoi! (1964)

Mörder ahoi!: Directed by George Pollock. With Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell, William Mervyn. After Miss Jane Marple is made a trustee of a merchant marine training vessel, a fellow trustee is poisoned, and ship’s officers are later murdered after she comes on board.

“When I saw the movie for the first time some 25 years ago I did not like it.Today I find it quite entertaining and I have much fun to watch it.Hindsight displays its charm.First of all,this is the kind of movie they do not do (and wonu0026#39;t do) anymore.George Pollock,the par excellence Agatha Christie director -he directed three other Miss Marple films and the second version of u0026quot;and then there were noneu0026quot; akau0026quot; ten little Indiansu0026quot; – is no genius but his movie has its fair share of humor,even black humor (the doctor does not seem to take the deaths seriously,always making sure a child be born to carry on,so to speak).This is an original screenplay ,not adapted from a Christieu0026#39;s book and that accounts for the rather weak detective plot.But interest lies elsewhere:Margaret Rutherfordu0026#39;s mischievous old lady detective is allowed things Mrs Christie would not have thought of : spending a night in jail and fighting a duel (sabers) with the culprit!”