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Murder Ahoy! (1964)

Director(s) George Pollock
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No producer listed for this movie
Top Genres Comedy, Crime, Film Adaptation, Mystery
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Murder Ahoy! (1964) was a Mystery - Crime Film directed by George Pollock .

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Murder Ahoy! Quotes:

Captain Rhumstone: [testily] One thing I can't stand is being disturbed when I'm curling my beard!
Miss Marple: Are you implying that I am unhinged?
Det. Insp. Craddock: No. No, of course not!
Miss Marple: Then what are you implying, pray?
Det. Insp. Craddock: Well, just that you are temporarily not yourself.
Miss Marple: Chief Inspector, I am *always* myself!
Miss Marple: Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead, Mr. Stringer!
Miss Marple: [to Craddock] Embezzlement is one thing - proof of triple murder is another. Softly, softly catches monkey in a mousetrap.
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Murder Ahoy! Facts
The screenplay was not based on any published Agatha Christie story. It did, however, borrow a few obscure plot details from "They Do It With Mirrors" and there is a delightful moment when Miss Marple pays homage to Christie's long-running play, "The Mousetrap."
We see Miss Marple's impressive library. It is composed mainly of Pan and Penguin crime paperbacks (including duplicate editions of "Follow the Saint" by Leslie Charteris and Georgette Heyer's "The Foundling"; Edgar Wallace is another of her favourite authors) alongside crossword, quiz and limerick books, Noel Coward's "Pomp and Circumstance" and "Return to Peyton Place" by Grace Metalious. There are also copies of Agatha Christie's "Three Act Tragedy", "Appointment With Death" - and intriguingly, the Miss Marple short story anthology "The Thirteen Problems".
Margaret Rutherford undertook a month of fencing practice for the film's denouement.
Terence Edmond's appearance as Sgt Bacon partly capitalises on his then-recent rôle in Z Cars, where his policeman character PC Sweet had been shockingly killed off.
The novel central to the plot, J. Plantaganet Corby's "The Doom Box", was devised by the scriptwriters and never really existed. The prop-makers mocked up copies in both hardback (for the Battledore) and paperback (for Miss Marple).
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