MURDER AHOY (1964) ** Margaret Rutherford is about as basset hound-lookin' Miss Marple as you could ever hope to see. So that's cool, and she's good at it, too. And Lionel Jeffries offers a good turn as the captain. Agatha Christie wrote all of those wonderful stories that always lend themselves to between acceptable to good-but never great-films. A lot of the appeal is the feel of it, and I don't know that I can point to one that beats this for atmosphere and ambience: black & white, old ship, the sea…a nice little bit of the last of Olde England (hear the music creeping in though, there's even a guitar in it once). Agatha's plot is-as always-well played and developed and, as usual, I hardly figured any of it out before the closing minutes.
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