Search - Murder, She Said - Authentic Region 1 DVD from Warner Brothers starring Margaret Rutherford on DVD

Agatha Christie liked train mysteries and train murderers

Jacques COULARDEAU | OLLIERGUES France | 08/11/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The fourth one of the series, though I have taken them the wrong way. This is the first one. Margaret Rutherford was still trying her hand at the part and she apparently liked it and even enjoyed it. The murder is obnoxious. The murderer is unforeseen and absolutely vicious. It is pure greed with a good tinge of lust, the lust of the middle-aging man who wants to get some fresh flesh and cool blood, or is it hot actually? The murderer is of course the outsider who is intruding with the life of the people who are soon going to be his competitors, though by his own choice. So he finds it interesting to eliminate a few. But Margaret or is she Jane is or is it are looking after the business and protecting the innocent. The film is thus well done and well acted. But this one has, like the others, a special and unique knack and that knack comes from Alexander, the teenager. He is a brilliant little gentleman without any face hair yet, aristocratic enough to be funny and cultivated enough to be witty. And he is used wisely and his antics are just fun and fine. That's what I would call the Christie-an touch in that film and the director added a touch of his own in the real setting he worked on in London, the old Victoria Station that has been refurbished and cleaned up so much since then it does not have that quaint charm of 1961. It is true it will never be revolutionized by the Eurostar but it has changed so much already that we will never have it the way it was any more. Really entertaining if you like films that were not overloaded with special effects.



Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines

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