Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 87 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.
- based on novel or book
- poison
- amateur detective
- detective inspector
- golf
- country estate
- fake identity
- employment agency
- black and white
- murder mystery
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Margaret Rutherford
Miss Jane Marple
Arthur Kennedy
Paul Quimper
Muriel Pavlow
Emma Ackenthorpe
James Robertson Justice
Luther Ackenthorpe
- Thorley Walters — Cedric Ackenthorpe
- Charles Tingwell — Inspector Craddock
- Conrad Phillips — Harold Ackenthorpe
- Ronald Howard — Brian Eastley
- Joan Hickson — Mrs. Kidder
- Stringer Davis — Jim Stringer
- Ronnie Raymond — Alexander Eastley
- Gerald Cross — Albert Ackenthorpe
- Michael Golden — Hillman
- Richard Briers — 'Mrs Binster'
- Lucy Griffiths — Lucy
- Directed
- George Pollock
- Written
- Jack Seddon, David Pursall, David D. Osborn
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 240 ratings
- Studio
- George H. Brown Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
