5/10
This Murder Is Understated-Murder She Said **1/2
24 January 2010
Warning: Spoilers
Benign affair with Margaret Rutherford in the role that she was born to play-the feisty murderer solver Jane Marple.

When Marple witnesses a strangulation on another passing train, this opens up quite an adventure for our problem solver. She pretends to be a maid and goes to work for quite a dysfunctional family.

Until the very end, Arthur Kennedy is terribly miscast as an affable benign doctor whose in love with the crusty old patriarch's daughter. What a nasty family we have there with everyone obviously waiting for the old man to close his eyes so that they can inherit a fortune.

Marple literally digs for clues and the end scene, after the murder is resolved, even gets a marriage proposal from our old gentleman.
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