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I am an Agatha Christie's faithful reader since my earlier years and have all the books she wrote (about 88), including her biography, and I might say that know her work and characters quite well. Since I began to consult eBay's DVDs catalogues, I discovered the real pleasure of seeing and reviewing those wonderful mysteries books of my youth. I have bought several BoxSets with Miss Marple different players, as well as Poirot's, ever since. My decision of buying 'The Agatha Christie's MISS MARPLE Movie Collection', featuring Dame MARGARET RUTHERFORD, brought additional pleasure I never expected. The movies in white/black caught the very atmosphere those British murder mysteries should have. Dame Margaret gave to her performance the perfect comedy touch that gives the difference from other serious interpretations of other players. Thinking she was in her 70's, with all that enthusiasm and still fresh acting skill, brings me the sorrow there is no other movies performances with her. The DVDSet quality is excellent and also has legend options in English an Spanish, which makes possible the understanding to foreigns, I know it by self experience. I strongly recommend this DVD BoxSet.Read full review
As long time fans of Agatha Christie, we was excited to see that the 4 original Miss Marple movies made back in the early 1960's were finally available on DVD. Our 20 plus year old VHS copies of these movies were showing their age from all the years of viewing. The movies are in glorious black and white, just the way traditional British murder mysteries should be viewed. Dame Margaret Rutherford is perfect in the role of Miss Marple. She was already in her 70's at the time and brings her long time acting skills to the screen. Continuous roles of Jim Stringer (played by her real life husband, Stringer Davis) and Inspector Craddock (played by Australian actor, Charles Tingwell) brings enjoyable wit and humor to each of the movies. We find these movies light hearted and extremely entertaining, great for watching over and over again. However, for the die hard Agatha Christie fans, looking for precise interpretations of the original books, these may not be the movies for them. Adapting books into screen plays is always challenging, but these movies are very loosely based indeed. “Murder at The Gallop” is based on the Poirot novel, “After The Funeral” and “Murder Most Foul” is based on another Poirot novel “Mrs. McGinty’s Dead”. “Murder Ahoy” was an original screenplay, not based on any specific Christie novel, although it does include references and plots from her works. A bit of ironic trivia is that Joan Hickson, who played Miss Marple in the long running BBC TV series was also in the movie “Murder She Said” as Mrs. Kidder, the housekeeper. The quality of the DVD set is excellent and we like the fact that each is individually packaged in it’s own case. However, it would have been nice to have had some special features included like we see in many of the DVD’s today. Bios on Agatha Christie, director George Pollock, and the actors would have been enjoyable. Robert Morley did an excellent performance in “Murder At The Gallop” and Lionel Jeffries was outstanding as the ship’s captain in “Murder Ahoy”. Our only disappointment is that only 4 of these old Miss Marple movies were made. They are enjoyment at it’s best.Read full review
Like many, I started watching Agatha Christie's movies on television with Miss Joan Hickson playing Miss Marple and David Suchet and Peter Ustinov playing Hercule Poirot. Later, I started reading Agatha Christies books (about two dozen so far) and found another perspective to the characters. I had seen this set in catalogs before but i never ordered it. I later found it on Ebay and decided to finally buy it. Margaret Rutherford gives a slightly comical air to Miss Marple in contrast to the more serious portrayal by Joan Hickson. The set contains four episodes one of which has a cameo role by Joan Hickson. An interesting trend followed later by David Suchet playing Inspector Japp to Peter Ustinov's Poirot. Agatha Christie fans should surely appreciate Margaret Rutherford's performances as Miss Jane Marple in this early 1960's set.Read full review
She is a HOOT ! ! Her guest stars are as well. I love Lionel Jefferies as the zany captain in, " Ship Ahoy". I also have long liked the character actor sidekick that Margaret Rutherford had in," Murder At The Gallop". Clean, silly, fumbling fun. Highly recommend it to anyone who loves Agatha Christie. Dame Rutherford was by far the best actress in her portrayal of Miss Marple. Janele Coleman
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I have always loved Margaret Rutherford. She is totally charming and fun as Miss Marple. Of the four films I would rate Murder at the Gallop as the best. And we get to see Margaret on a horse, side saddle no less. Wonderful stuff. I can watch these over and over and never be bored.
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