Agatha Christie
Murder She Said (DVD)
Le Train de 16h50
Assassinio sul Treno
1961
Audio et soustitres : English, Français, Italiano
Soustitres : Arabe
La collection de Miss Marple
Margaret Rutherford
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Une vieille dame témoin d'un meurtre à bord d'un train fait appel aux services d'une vieille amie, une certaine Miss Marple...
Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) rentre de Paddington par le train de 16 h 50. Alors qu'elle lit un roman policier, elle s'endort mais elle est réveillée par un train parallèle au sien, qui la dépasse. En regardant par la fenêtre, elle aperçoit soudain dans l'autre train un homme étranglant une femme.
Comme aucun corps n'a été retrouvé, elle décide d'enquêter elle-même et se fait engager comme bonne dans une vieille maison appartenant aux Ackenthorpe, une famille composée d'un père radin, grognon et prétentieux, d'une fille amoureuse du docteur du village, le Dr Quimper, de trois fils ressemblant beaucoup à leur père et d'un petit-fils surdoué. En fouillant dans la propriété, la vieille Miss Marple découvre le cadavre d'une inconnue…
Acteurs : Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, James Robertson Justice, Thorley Walters
Réalisateurs : George Pollock
Format : Noir et blanc, Mono, Cinémascope, PAL
Audio : Italien (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Anglais (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Français (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
Sous-titres : Français, Italien, Anglais, Arabe
Sous-titres pour sourds et malentendants : Anglais, Italien
Région : Région 2
Rapport de forme : 1.66:1
Studio : Warner Bros.
Date de sortie du DVD : 21 juin 2006
Durée : 82 minutes
Murder, She Said is a 1961 comedy/murder mystery film directed by George Pollock, based on the novel 4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie. The production starred Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple along with Arthur Kennedy and Muriel Pavlow, and features Stringer Davis, Rutherford's real life husband.
MGM made three sequels, Murder at the Gallop, Murder Most Foul and Murder Ahoy!, all with Rutherford starring as Christie's famed amateur sleuth.
While traveling by rail, Miss Marple witnesses the strangling of a young woman in the carriage of an overtaking train. The local police can find no evidence to support her story, so she conducts her own investigation and, with the aid of her close friend Jim Stringer (Stringer Davis), comes to the conclusion that the body must have been thrown off the train near the grounds of Ackenthorpe Hall, which adjoins the railway line.
Wheedling her way into a job as housemaid there, Marple copes with her difficult employer, Luther Ackenthorpe (James Robertson Justice), and searches for the missing corpse. She eventually finds it concealed in a stable, much to the chagrin of Police Inspector Craddock (Bud Tingwell).
Miss Marple has Mr. Stringer uncover the details of Ackenthorpe's will: The family fortune will go to his long-suffering, attentive daughter Emma, sons Cedric, Harold and Albert, and grandson Alexander. (A fourth son, Edmund, was killed in the war.) Also, Dr. Quimper (Arthur Kennedy), Ackenthorpe's physician, and Emma are secretly in love. Gardener Hillman and part-time servant Mrs. Kidder (Joan Hickson) round out the establishment (and suspects).
Alexander finds the first clue, a musical compact which plays "Frère Jacques", near where the body must have landed. When Emma reveals that she recently received a letter from a French woman named Martine, who claimed that she had married Edmund shortly before he died (and is therefore an heir), the identity of the dead woman and the motive for the crime seems clear.
Arsenic in the curry duck prepared by Miss Marple sickens all who eat it, but only Albert succumbs. Then Harold dies by his own shotgun. The police are unsure if it was suicide by a remorseful murderer or the third victim.
Miss Marple, however, is not deceived, and sets a trap, using the compact as bait. Dr. Quimper is revealed to be the villain. The dead woman was not Martine at all, but his wife. Quimper feared that the compact, a gift to his wife, could be traced to him. He intended to dispose of the other heirs and marry Emma. He administered a second, fatal dose of arsenic while supposedly attending to Albert.
Differences from the novel
In Christie's original story, elderly Elspeth McGillicuddy witnessed the murder, not her friend Miss Marple, who was introduced later. Also, in the original story, a young acquaintance of Marple is sent to pose as a house-keeper at the suspect location, not Marple herself. As with most of her portrayals of Miss Marple, Rutherford's interpretation was quite different from Christie's languid, passive depiction. The tone of the novel also was changed somewhat; instead of Christie's trademark
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