I Watch Films: Murder Ahoy
The last of the Margaret Rutherford Miss Marple films; in this one she joins the board of a charitable trust that runs the good ship Battledore, an old sailing ship used for teaching youngsters on the wrong path clean living and seamanship. Unfortunately at the first meeting one of the trustees is murdered by poisoned snuff before he can make his report on his visit. Miss Marple goes aboard the ship to investigate, only to uncover a wide variety of scams and cons being perpetrated by the oddball officers.
There’s a few good set-piece jokes (when Miss Marple takes over the Captain’s cabin and each officer then displaces the next until the most junior has to get in a hammock in No 2 Hold is fun). There’s a set of brief but amusing appearance by Nicholas Parsons as the doctor who has to run after every death as he’s got a baby to deliver, thus keeping the population in balance.
Watch This: For a light-hearted murder mystery that manages to have both good clean fun and dark and evil plotting
Don’t Watch This: If you want an actual Agatha Christie story put up on screen
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