A little slow, but more is explained and the murder itself doesn't seem quite as contrived as the Rutherford film. And nearly gets away with it, but for an unexpected witness. I will say this, the same perpetrator in the Margaret Rutherford movie does the deed again in 4:50 From Paddington Station. And they've got an ailing patriarch with one of those crazy wills that provide a host of relatives as suspects. Mary Mead, Miss Jane Marple uses her reputation and keen observation skills to aid police in solving crimes.
The Crackenthorpes are wealthy British family, new money, they got rich manufacturing breakfast cereal.
At that point she sends in Jill Meager as an operative so to speak. At that point Hickson goes into action and determines that the body was most likely thrown off near the Crackenthorpe estate. This version is faithful to the Christie story and has a friend of Miss Marple see the strangling of a woman and her being thrown out the window of a train going the other way. Joan Hickson's Jane Marple is a milder sort, but still a woman who doesn't miss much. Rutherford's character serves as both and one of the biggest strengths of the film is Rutherford doing her own scouting and sleuthing and her scenes with ailing family patriarch James Robertson Justice are a hoot and a half. For the big screen the characters of the woman who saw the strangling on a passing train and the woman who Miss Marple sends in as a housekeeper to scout out the terrain are eliminated. Comparing the two is six of one, half a dozen of the other. 4:50 From Paddington Station was also the first Agatha Christie Miss Marple story to be adapted for Margaret Rutherford in Murder She Said.
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