- 2 weeks ago
When Miss Marple reports witnessing a murder through the window of a passing train, the police dismiss her as a dotty spinster when no trace of the crime can be found.
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00:00:00Station announcer, the train standing at Platform 2 is the 450 for Eileen Broadway,
00:00:19Hanwell, Hayes, West Drayton, Langley, Tuttleau, Milchester, and Brackhampton.
00:02:34Let's go.
00:03:04Let's go.
00:03:34I beg your pardon?
00:03:35A man strangled a woman in a train. I saw it out there.
00:03:39Strangled?
00:03:40Yes, strangled. You must do something about it at once.
00:03:43Me? Well...
00:03:44Madam, don't you think perhaps you had a little nap and maybe had a bad dream?
00:03:51Young man, I was not dreaming. I saw it.
00:03:54What are you going to do about it?
00:03:55Well, look, we'll be in Blackhampton in about five minutes. I'll report it as soon as we get there.
00:04:02Could I have your name and address?
00:04:03Yes, of course. Miss Jane Marple.
00:04:07Marple.
00:04:07Marple.
00:04:09Old Pasture Lane.
00:04:11Pasture Lane.
00:04:12Milchester.
00:04:13Milchester.
00:04:14I see. Very well, Miss Marple. I'll report this to the stationmaster soon.
00:04:17Yes, please do.
00:04:24A bad dream, indeed.
00:04:25All right, Lucy. I'll answer that.
00:04:50Morning, Madam. I...
00:04:51Not today, thank you.
00:04:52Inspector Craddock, County CID, Madam.
00:04:57Oh, I am so sorry.
00:04:58Do come in, Inspector.
00:05:02I've just been going through all the papers again for the last two days
00:05:05and still not a word about the murder.
00:05:08I suppose the police asked the press to say nothing for the moment.
00:05:12You sit down, won't you?
00:05:14Lull the murderer into a false sense of security, then pounce, eh?
00:05:18Oh!
00:05:19What's that?
00:05:19Oh, how stupid of me.
00:05:21Yes, I am so sorry.
00:05:23Lucy!
00:05:24You will have some tea, won't you?
00:05:25Oh, er...
00:05:26Some tea for the inspector, dear, please.
00:05:28Yes.
00:05:30Well, now.
00:05:31Have you got him?
00:05:33Well, I, er...
00:05:36That is, er...
00:05:37We have come to the conclusion that what you saw on the train
00:05:40was, er...
00:05:41Well, a man and a woman.
00:05:44Yes, as I said.
00:05:46I mean, er...
00:05:47Perhaps they were honeymooners.
00:05:51Inspector,
00:05:52I may be what is termed a spinster,
00:05:55but I do know the difference between horseplay and murder.
00:05:59Of course, madam, er, Miss Marple,
00:06:02but the fact remains that there's been a thorough search of every train
00:06:05and no hospital has treated any woman such as you described.
00:06:07She was blonde and had on a coat with a pale fur collar.
00:06:11And no such woman has been seen getting on or off a train
00:06:13either alone or with anybody else.
00:06:15But of course not.
00:06:16She was dead.
00:06:17Further, a complete search has been made of every inch of the tracks
00:06:19for the whole length of the line.
00:06:21Negative.
00:06:22Oh.
00:06:23So you don't believe me.
00:06:26I didn't mean to imply that.
00:06:27You certainly did.
00:06:28Not at all.
00:06:29I, er...
00:06:30What then?
00:06:31I...
00:06:31I assure you, Miss Marple,
00:06:33that a woman cannot be murdered on a busy train
00:06:35a few minutes before a station
00:06:36without our finding out about it.
00:06:38I'm quite sure you mean well, Inspector.
00:06:41But if you imagine that I am going to sit back
00:06:43and let everybody regard me as a dotty old maid,
00:06:47you are very much mistaken.
00:06:49Good day.
00:06:51Good day.
00:07:21I'm sorry, Mrs. Stenton.
00:07:25The hat rack hanging, Falcon Smith's latest.
00:07:28I'm afraid we haven't received our copy yet.
00:07:31Plain inefficiency.
00:07:33Anyway, I want to know the moment it comes in.
00:07:34Of course, of course, Mrs. Stenton.
00:07:37Oh, good morning, Miss Marple.
00:07:39Good morning, Mr. Stringer.
00:07:41Good morning, Hilda.
00:07:42One moment.
00:07:43The hat rack hanging.
00:07:44I've been keeping it for you.
00:07:46Mr. Stringer, would you say I was an unstable woman?
00:07:58Oh, certainly not.
00:07:59In full possession of my faculties?
00:08:02Absolutely.
00:08:03I'm not given to hallucinations.
00:08:04I know.
00:08:05Thank you, Mr. Stringer.
00:08:07The police think I'm dotty.
00:08:09What?
00:08:10Apparently, what I saw was a young man and woman in the throes of connubial bliss.
00:08:15I see.
00:08:16Well, if I were you, Miss Marple, I would certainly write to the chief constable.
00:08:20Mr. Stringer, how many detective novels would you say we have read over the years?
00:08:24Impossible to say.
00:08:26Certainly many hundreds.
00:08:27Yes.
00:08:27Which gives us, wouldn't you agree, a certain knowledge of the criminal mind.
00:08:31Oh, most assuredly.
00:08:32Well, this is where we put that knowledge to the test.
00:08:37We?
00:08:37Yes, we.
00:08:44So it has come in.
00:08:46Oh, has it?
00:08:47Well, I think I have first call.
00:08:50I don't think you'll like it, Hilda.
00:08:51Too obvious.
00:08:52The mother did it, of course.
00:08:53How can you possibly know that?
00:08:55The book has only just come in.
00:08:56It always is with Falconsmith.
00:08:58A deprived child, you know.
00:09:02Hot buttered crumpets for tea, Mr. Stringer, if you care to join me.
00:09:05Indeed I would, Miss Marple.
00:09:12Ah, yes, here we are.
00:09:15Now, I calculate the five o'clock express to Brackhampton overtook my train.
00:09:20Somewhere about there.
00:09:22But how can you be sure?
00:09:23Well, I remember the ticket collector saying five minutes to Brackhampton.
00:09:27Couldn't have been more than a minute after the murder he came in.
00:09:30So that makes it six minutes before Brackhampton at, say, 30 miles an hour.
00:09:36So, about there.
00:09:40Oh, but the body, Miss Marple.
00:09:42Well, it seems clear that was thrown from the train between here and Brackhampton.
00:09:47The police found nothing.
00:09:48Of course not.
00:09:50The murderer returned before the search and disposed of the body.
00:09:54By Jove, the police will certainly want to investigate now.
00:09:57Well, according to them, there is nothing to investigate.
00:10:00Oh, surely in the light of our theory, a fresh search.
00:10:02Fresh, isn't there?
00:10:03But this time we will conduct our own.
00:10:05Huh?
00:10:06Yes, Mr. Stringer.
00:10:07I recommend a hearty breakfast tomorrow.
00:10:11You and I are going to take an early morning walk.
00:10:13There must be something somewhere.
00:10:25You can't throw a body out of a fast-moving train without leaving some kind of trace.
00:10:30Miss Marple, if we linger here much longer, I feel certain we should be apprehended.
00:10:34Oh, nonsense.
00:10:35No one will give a couple of track layers a second glance.
00:10:38I'm not altogether convinced our disguises are adequate.
00:10:41A shoe, a bit of cloth.
00:10:43Something.
00:10:44I concede our timetable may have been out of date,
00:10:47but I'm quite sure the 7.15 is still running.
00:10:50Very possibly.
00:10:51But it could be most dangerous up here.
00:10:54Undoubtedly.
00:10:54Miss Marple.
00:10:55Miss Marple.
00:10:55Miss Marple.
00:10:56Miss Marple.
00:10:57Miss Marple.
00:10:58Yes?
00:10:59There you are.
00:11:00I think I heard something.
00:11:20And I think I found something.
00:11:22Consistent with something having been dumped from a train, wouldn't you say?
00:11:39If it was the body, it would roll down and finish up against this wall.
00:11:44Then where is it?
00:11:46That, Mr. Stringer, is the question.
00:11:49Could be buried.
00:11:51You'd need a pick or a shovel.
00:11:53No, this is hardly an ideal spot for disposing of a body.
00:11:58Unless...
00:12:00Unless...
00:12:10From her fur collar, I think.
00:12:15Mr. Stringer, will you kindly give me a leg up?
00:12:17Certainly, Miss Marple, I have to.
00:12:19Please, Mr. Stringer.
00:12:22No, no.
00:12:25Make a stirrup.
00:12:28Yes.
00:12:29Come on.
00:12:30Careful.
00:12:31Are you ready?
00:12:32Interlock your fingers.
00:12:33They are interlocked.
00:12:34Oh.
00:12:35Well, are you ready?
00:12:36Yes.
00:12:39Magnificent.
00:12:43Down.
00:12:47What a frightful-looking man.
00:12:51What a frightful-looking dog.
00:12:52Miss Marple, prudence demands a retreat.
00:12:54Mr. Stringer, I am convinced that the body is the other side of this wall.
00:12:59But that's the Akim Thorpe Hall estate.
00:13:01No.
00:13:02Perfect.
00:13:03Easy enough for someone to come down out of the house, recover the body, and dispose of it somewhere in the grounds.
00:13:09Someone from the house? You mean one of the family?
00:13:11Yes, or one of the servants.
00:13:12They're lucky enough to have any.
00:13:15Servants.
00:13:18I wonder.
00:13:19Miss Marple, whatever it is, no, no, no.
00:13:22Mr. Stringer, we will withdraw.
00:13:25Temporarily.
00:13:26Ah.
00:13:43Good morning.
00:13:44Good morning.
00:13:45I'm afraid there's nothing on my books, madam, not so much as her mother's help.
00:13:48I'm seeking a post, not offering one.
00:13:54Pray be seated do, my good woman.
00:13:57You need seek no more.
00:13:58You've come to the right place.
00:14:00How good to see the spirit of unselfish service is still with us.
00:14:03Let me see now.
00:14:04Yes.
00:14:05Here's a perfect plum.
00:14:06Cheerful home for cheerful lady.
00:14:09Own suite, TV, radio, and the use of car.
00:14:11Tea in bed on Sundays, pension scheme.
00:14:13Heaven forbid.
00:14:14All right.
00:14:15Mrs. Forbes, Alexbridge.
00:14:16Setting up house near Monte Carlo.
00:14:17I won't have any foreigners, of course.
00:14:18Own gaming allowance.
00:14:19Well, I don't approve of gambling.
00:14:20Mrs. Hamilton Potts.
00:14:21The Dingley stud farm, you know.
00:14:22Seven children.
00:14:23Eldest seven.
00:14:24Oh, no, thank you.
00:14:25Perhaps if I might have a quiet word with Mrs. Binster.
00:14:26I am Mrs. Binster.
00:14:27I am Mrs. Binster.
00:14:28Oh, I see.
00:14:29Well, as a matter of fact, I wondered if there might be a position at Ackenthorpe Hall.
00:14:31Ackenthorpe Hall?
00:14:32Yes.
00:14:33Ackenthorpe Hall.
00:14:34Yes.
00:14:35Ackenthorpe Hall.
00:14:36Yes.
00:14:37Ackenthorpe Hall.
00:14:38Oh, no, thank you. Perhaps if I might have a quiet word with Mrs. Binster.
00:14:47I am Mrs. Binster.
00:14:49Oh, I see.
00:14:51Well, as a matter of fact, I wondered if there might be a position at Ackenthorpe Hall.
00:14:56Ackenthorpe Hall?
00:14:57Yes, Ackenthorpe Hall.
00:15:00Oh, yes. I think I can accommodate you.
00:15:04Yes. There's always a vacancy there.
00:15:40Yes.
00:16:15Yes?
00:16:28I'm Jane from Mrs. Binster's employment agency, the new maid.
00:16:33Well, you look old enough to know better.
00:16:35Come in.
00:16:45I have to see Miss Ackenthorpe.
00:16:53You are expected.
00:16:54Oh, ma'am.
00:17:02Miss Ackenthorpe.
00:17:03Miss Ackenthorpe.
00:17:05Yes?
00:17:06I'm Jane.
00:17:08The new maid?
00:17:10Yes.
00:17:11Jane Marple.
00:17:12Now, if you'll kindly show me where I'm to put my things, I'll...
00:17:16Oh, yes.
00:17:16Yes, of course.
00:17:17But I'm wondering if this post is really what you're looking for, Miss Marple.
00:17:23Well, naturally.
00:17:24Otherwise, I wouldn't be here.
00:17:26I don't want a housekeeper, you know.
00:17:28I want someone to...
00:17:29Well, to do the work.
00:17:31Yes.
00:17:31You want cooking, washing up, beds made, floors scrubbed, fires lit, ashes taken away.
00:17:36I quite understand.
00:17:37Well, I hope you'll find us suitable.
00:17:41Oh, I'm sure I shall.
00:17:42Perhaps you won't find the work too exacting.
00:17:45There are only the three of us.
00:17:46Myself, my nephew, down from school for the holidays.
00:17:50And then there's father.
00:17:52May I show you to your room?
00:17:53Yes.
00:17:57I'll take that, my dear.
00:17:58Perhaps the clubs, if you wouldn't mind.
00:18:01I must keep fit, you know.
00:18:03Yes, of course.
00:18:05Our staff consists of Hillman, the gardener, and Mrs. Kidder, she let you in.
00:18:11She comes in from the village three afternoons a week to do the rough work.
00:18:16That was my grandfather.
00:18:18He founded the family fortune.
00:18:20Tea biscuits, you know.
00:18:21Oh, yes.
00:18:22And very excellent biscuits they were to woman.
00:18:25Quite a severe man, I'm afraid.
00:18:29Miss Marple, I think it only fair to explain to you that my father himself is...
00:18:35Well, quite frankly, he's a bit difficult at times.
00:18:38He's an invalid, you know.
00:18:39He's very keen on economy, and he sometimes says things that upset people.
00:18:44I wouldn't want you to...
00:18:45Oh, I'm quite used to looking after elderly people of all sorts.
00:18:49We'll manage.
00:18:52Emma.
00:18:54Emma.
00:18:54Emma.
00:18:55I hear you.
00:18:56Yes, father.
00:18:57Excuse me a moment.
00:18:59Don't try to sneak off.
00:19:01Is that the new girl with you?
00:19:03Well, uh, yes, father.
00:19:06Hope she's got a bit more meat on her than the last one.
00:19:08Can't stand them skinny.
00:19:10Well, don't just stand there, boggling girl.
00:19:12Bring her in.
00:19:13I want to look at her.
00:19:14Yes.
00:19:15Will you come in, please?
00:19:16Father, this is Miss Marple.
00:19:27Uh, Jane.
00:19:28Plainer Jane, I've never set eyes on in my life.
00:19:31Well, we can't all be young and handsome, can we, Mr. Lackenthorpe?
00:19:35There is one thing I cannot tolerate, and that is impertinence.
00:19:38Well, we should get on admirably.
00:19:41Neither can I.
00:19:42Well, if you're coming to stay here, and I suppose you've got to,
00:19:44there's one thing you'd better understand straight away.
00:19:47Because I live in a big house, it doesn't necessarily follow that I'm a rich man.
00:19:51So there's no good coming here with extravagant ideas.
00:19:54I live here because I want to.
00:19:56Not because I can afford it.
00:19:58Father, don't you think...
00:19:59No, I don't.
00:20:00Can you cook?
00:20:02If you want good English cooking, yes.
00:20:05Cod's as good as lobster any day, and much cheaper.
00:20:07Well, that depends on whether or not one has a palate unsullied by cheap opiates.
00:20:14If you mean what I think you mean, I'd have you know this cheroot cost two shillings.
00:20:18Yes, quite.
00:20:19Um, I'll show Miss Marple to her room.
00:20:21Oh, this way, please.
00:20:22Good idea.
00:20:24That was Hillman, the gardener.
00:20:32When Mr. Ackenthorpe wants to move about, he always calls him.
00:20:35They're quite close.
00:20:37Will you be staying, Miss Marple?
00:20:38Uh, Jane?
00:20:40My dear lady, of course.
00:20:42Oh, I'm so glad.
00:20:44Emma!
00:20:45Come back here.
00:20:46You've forgotten my medicine.
00:20:47Excuse me a moment.
00:20:48Um, that's your room, just down there.
00:20:50The door opposite the head of the small stairs.
00:20:51I'll find it.
00:20:52Don't you worry.
00:20:53Can I get you there?
00:20:53Yes, of course.
00:20:54All right.
00:20:55Yes.
00:21:51Come out at once.
00:22:14I advise you to come out.
00:22:18Very well.
00:22:19You're Miss Emma's nephew, I presume?
00:22:47Yes.
00:22:48Alexander Eastley.
00:22:49How'd you do?
00:22:50How'd you do?
00:22:52I'm Jane.
00:22:53Jane Marple.
00:22:54Yes.
00:22:56It is disappointing, isn't it?
00:22:57I'd rather hoped for the Jane Mansfield type.
00:22:59I see you have something in common with your grandfather.
00:23:03Oh, we're very alike in many ways.
00:23:05Mind you, I'm not mean with money.
00:23:07He'll stop that vase out of your wages, you know.
00:23:11It's just as well you got out of the way.
00:23:13Otherwise...
00:23:14It would have been my head and you'd have got ten years.
00:23:17That is still possible.
00:23:24You know, it isn't just that you don't look like Jane Mansfield.
00:23:28You're not my idea of a maid either.
00:23:30Well, quite honestly, I don't think you'd be everybody's idea of a boy.
00:23:35You know, there's something decidedly fishy about you.
00:23:38I can see you'll have to go.
00:23:40After Mrs. Kidder, of course, she's next.
00:23:42Depressing creature.
00:23:44So was Annie.
00:23:45Annie?
00:23:45Your predecessor.
00:23:47Thin as a rake and a shocking cook.
00:23:50Can you cook?
00:23:51Well, I think I've done better than Annie.
00:23:56Grandfather's like that too.
00:23:57And he hates his dinner to be late.
00:23:59I'd leave your unpacking until later if I were you.
00:24:01Well, in that case, hadn't you better show me the way to the kitchen, Alexander?
00:24:05Very well.
00:24:06Jane?
00:24:07Emma!
00:24:16That's him.
00:24:17Always shouting about something.
00:24:18Mostly money.
00:24:19This way.
00:24:20Emma!
00:24:21Of course, they're all waiting for him to drop dead, you know.
00:24:24Frightful pack of vultures, our family.
00:24:26Except possibly Aunt Emma.
00:24:28And who are these vultures?
00:24:30Oh, there's Uncle Harold, stinking rich and just as mean.
00:24:33Uncle Albert, deadly dull, poor fellow.
00:24:35Then there's Uncle Cedric.
00:24:37He paints.
00:24:38But not for art's sake.
00:24:40Do you know, last year, he and one of his models.
00:24:45Alexander!
00:24:45Well, he's like that.
00:24:47There was an Uncle Edmund.
00:24:49Was?
00:24:50Yes, stopped a whole bomb during the war.
00:24:52All by himself.
00:24:53Wasn't another man around for miles.
00:24:56Deserting, probably.
00:24:57And who can be held responsible for you?
00:25:00Well put.
00:25:01Mummy's name was Edith, but she's dead.
00:25:04Daddy's Brian Eastley, you know.
00:25:05Oh?
00:25:06You know, the fighter race.
00:25:07Battle of Britain.
00:25:08Oh, the Brian Eastley.
00:25:10Yes.
00:25:11I'm going to set him up in business when I get my inheritance from grandfather.
00:25:15Here we are.
00:25:18Well, there you are.
00:25:19And about time, too.
00:25:20Well, I'm off.
00:25:21I wouldn't stay in this place after dark.
00:25:22Not put all the tea in China.
00:25:24Now, look.
00:25:25The pots and pans are on that shelf there, over the stove.
00:25:27Oh, yes.
00:25:28And the groceries and provisions.
00:25:31In there.
00:25:33Well, cheerio.
00:25:35Good day.
00:25:36Good day, Mrs. Kidder.
00:25:38What's the matter with you?
00:25:39I was merely being polite.
00:25:44Charming, isn't she, Jane?
00:25:46I think you should see this.
00:25:47Come on.
00:25:48What?
00:25:48Phase four.
00:25:49Anti-Kidder campaign.
00:25:50Splendid.
00:26:04Dinner at eight, please, Jane.
00:26:20I think you should see this.
00:26:50I see you made yourself comfortable.
00:27:07I trust you have no objection.
00:27:10Maybe.
00:27:15I shouldn't make yourself too comfortable if I was you.
00:27:20I trust you.
00:27:47I trust you.
00:27:48Oh, my God.
00:28:18Oh, who are you?
00:28:28I'm the new maid, sir.
00:28:31Dr. Quimper, you get used to seeing me here.
00:28:35Alexander, I suppose.
00:28:36Yes, I'm afraid, sir.
00:28:38Well, Mr. Akenthorpe will be expecting me.
00:28:41Oh, yes. I'll show you up.
00:28:42Oh, that won't be...
00:28:48Your doctor?
00:28:53Well, there's my confounded matches.
00:28:57Oh, it's you.
00:28:58Good morning.
00:29:00What are you doing in here?
00:29:01Snooping, I suppose.
00:29:03Where are my matches?
00:29:09If you're going to smoke,
00:29:10we'd better have some windows open.
00:29:12I'm a great believer in fresh air.
00:29:14Aren't you, doctor?
00:29:15Why, yes, I am.
00:29:17Miss Marple, her name.
00:29:20Marple, her nature.
00:29:23That's right.
00:29:24Let her give me double pneumonia.
00:29:27You can't kill me off one way,
00:29:28you'll kill me off another.
00:29:30Nonsense.
00:29:31You're going to live to be a hundred
00:29:32in spite of anything I can do.
00:29:34Well, in that case,
00:29:35tell that woman to stop opening windows
00:29:37and to light my cheroot.
00:29:38Is there any chance
00:29:39that will send him to sleep, doctor?
00:29:42I'm afraid it's a stimulant.
00:29:46Roll over.
00:29:48Oh, dear.
00:29:51Hold it closer, woman.
00:29:55No!
00:29:56No!
00:29:57Your hometown lost a good horse, doctor,
00:30:04when you left, Quimper.
00:30:05Matter of fact,
00:30:05I was very bad with the horses.
00:30:07How'd the birthday party go?
00:30:08All the family get down all right?
00:30:10Of course they did.
00:30:12They had a whole weekend of it.
00:30:13Free board and lodging from Friday night.
00:30:15Friday?
00:30:17What's that to do with you?
00:30:18Oh, nothing.
00:30:20I just happened to be
00:30:21an interesting day for me, too.
00:30:23How old were you, Mr. Lackenthorpe?
00:30:25Mind your business.
00:30:27Anyhow, it was a miserable weekend.
00:30:29And I hope it'll be a long time
00:30:31before I have to put up
00:30:32with a whole pack of them again.
00:30:34Not a very nice way
00:30:35to talk about one's family.
00:30:36Not a very nice family.
00:30:38And you know what
00:30:39that overgrown beatnik Cedric did?
00:30:41Told Emma right in front of my eyes
00:30:43she ought to get out of here.
00:30:44Get married or something.
00:30:45Try to make her as selfish as he is.
00:30:47Oh, I don't know.
00:30:48If Emma did marry,
00:30:49it wouldn't be such a bad thing.
00:30:52Oh, Father, I thought I'd tell you
00:30:54I'm just going into town.
00:30:55I'll be leaving in a moment.
00:30:57Can I give you a lift?
00:30:58What do you want to go into town for?
00:30:59Can't she go for whatever it is?
00:31:01Well, it's tradesmen, Father.
00:31:02A few bills to pay.
00:31:03Oh, money.
00:31:04Well, that's a different thing.
00:31:06Can't trust anybody these days.
00:31:08All right, off you go.
00:31:10In that case, may I be of service?
00:31:12Of course you can, Quimper.
00:31:13Save the price of a taxi.
00:31:15Pay you enough as it is.
00:31:16It'll be on your bill.
00:31:17Are you ready now?
00:31:18Only my coat.
00:31:19Good.
00:31:20Friday then, Miss Sackenthorpe.
00:31:21Good day, Miss Marble.
00:31:23Good day, Doctor.
00:31:24If you don't shut those windows,
00:31:26you'll be fired.
00:31:28In that case,
00:31:29I shall require four weeks' waitress
00:31:31in lieu of notice.
00:31:32Get out of my sight, woman!
00:31:35With pleasure.
00:32:02Your weight isn't quite evenly distributed.
00:32:19I'll have you know
00:32:20that I won the Lady's Open Handicap
00:32:21in 1921.
00:32:23Really?
00:32:25I'm sure you have many things to do.
00:32:27Not at all, I'm most interested.
00:32:29We've never had a golf playing made before.
00:32:31You may have heard
00:32:32that this is the age
00:32:33of the common woman.
00:32:38You hooked.
00:32:39I'm aware of it.
00:32:50You know something?
00:32:51What?
00:32:52I believe you pulled those shots on purpose.
00:32:56Alexander, if you wish to be helpful at all,
00:32:59will you kindly look for the hook?
00:33:00Look while I look for the slice.
00:33:10Yes, sir.
00:33:13Let's do it.
00:33:14Thank you, sir.
00:33:15Thank you, sir.
00:33:17Thank you, sir.
00:34:17Have you found yours yet?
00:34:19Yes, have you?
00:34:21Disappeared without a trace.
00:34:22Oh, well, fortunately I have some more.
00:34:24The present, Rach, you're going to need them.
00:34:28Perhaps you'd care to demonstrate the next one?
00:34:32Certainly.
00:34:36Let's see how close you can get to those outbuildings.
00:34:39Yes, I think that's possible.
00:34:52Fair.
00:34:54Hmm, you know perfectly well it was superb for a boy of my age.
00:35:08Right on the fairway.
00:35:10A chip and a putt and I'd have holed out in three.
00:35:12Does your grandfather keep horses, Alexander?
00:35:16He did.
00:35:17Now he just keeps a few relics of a more spacious age.
00:35:20Nostalgia, you know.
00:35:21A failing of the old, I suppose.
00:35:23Like to look.
00:35:25Well, I think I'm old enough, don't you?
00:35:27Oh, an old-fashioned pony-shave.
00:35:38They used that for going to the village.
00:35:40I suppose they used Victoria for going to church.
00:35:42Yes, on Sundays in the summer, I believe.
00:35:45And the bronze for visiting in the winter, perhaps.
00:35:48Yes, I expect so.
00:35:50It's supposed to be haunted here, you know.
00:35:52Grandfather found a man hanging from this rafter.
00:35:55Good heavens.
00:35:55He'd been dead for a week.
00:35:56That will do, Alexander.
00:35:57All purple, you know.
00:35:58Alexander.
00:36:01What was that?
00:36:02I wonder.
00:36:03All right, I'll look.
00:36:05All yours.
00:36:09Dear, dear, we are nervous, aren't we?
00:36:12Pity.
00:36:14Oh, well, what did you expect to find?
00:36:16Bodies.
00:36:17What?
00:36:18Live ones, of course.
00:36:20Used to be quite the spot for courting couples from the town.
00:36:22Really?
00:36:23Till Grandfather got Hillman to put a stop to it.
00:36:25Spoil sport.
00:36:26Quite extraordinary, the goings-on here.
00:36:29Apparently, there was this girl...
00:36:30That's enough, Alexander.
00:36:31There may be some other poor bird trapped.
00:36:42Look at this.
00:36:57Somebody else must have been in here.
00:36:59This isn't Aunt Emma's.
00:37:00It's mine.
00:37:01I must have dropped it.
00:37:03Thank you so much.
00:37:04It was bequeathed to me.
00:37:06You're not by any chance on the run from the police, are you?
00:37:10Too much television.
00:37:11You must learn to rationalize your imagination.
00:37:15What's behind there?
00:37:17More relics from the past?
00:37:19Matter of fact, yes.
00:37:20The fruits of Grandfather's Egyptian phase.
00:37:22Indeed.
00:37:23How interesting.
00:37:38No one's a note in there.
00:37:39Let go of my wrist.
00:37:40What are you up to?
00:37:41Up to?
00:37:42The boy was simply showing me round.
00:37:44What boy?
00:37:45Alexander.
00:37:46You're lying.
00:37:48Alexander, come out of there at once.
00:37:53I thought discretion the better part of valor, Jane.
00:37:56This fellow's not about clipping a person's ear.
00:37:59You know your Grandfather don't like no one sneaking round here.
00:38:02Don't think I won't tell him neither.
00:38:04Despite the double negatives, I'm sure you will.
00:38:07Come, Jane.
00:38:09Good for you, young man.
00:38:23Good for you.
00:41:52No.
00:41:54No.
00:41:55Now listen, Mr. Springer.
00:41:57I want you to inform the police anonymously.
00:42:01Don't mention me yet.
00:42:03I wish to be in the kill, so to speak.
00:42:05Miss Marple, really?
00:42:07All right.
00:42:08But it makes my blood run cold to think of you there alone.
00:42:11I was wondering.
00:42:12I was wondering, perhaps they have a vacancy for a gardener.
00:42:16Oh, they've got one.
00:42:18Very well.
00:42:19I'll do as you say.
00:42:22Miss Marple, the compact.
00:42:24If the murderer should know that you have it...
00:42:27I'll be careful, dear Mr. Springer.
00:42:29I'll phone the inspector right away.
00:42:32Well, never seen her before in my life.
00:42:54No, she's not from these parts.
00:42:56Well, whoever she is, I want her out of here at once.
00:43:00If you hadn't left the barn door unlocked, this wouldn't have happened.
00:43:02We wouldn't have had all these people poking their noses into everything.
00:43:04Are you all right, Marvin?
00:43:12Of course I'm all right.
00:43:14Think I've never seen a corpse before?
00:43:16Be one myself soon?
00:43:18Perhaps you'd better go back to the house.
00:43:21I'll follow you up.
00:43:31Whoever it was tried to get her in here first.
00:43:33I've taken the strength of a maniac to shift it this far.
00:43:37Inspector?
00:43:39Oh, yes, doctor.
00:43:41I don't know whether this is being helpful.
00:43:45Go on.
00:43:46Well, the woman, no one recognized her,
00:43:49and her clothes struck me as being foreign, perhaps French.
00:43:53Hmm.
00:43:54Yes, that's very interesting.
00:43:57Yes, thank you, doctor.
00:43:59Well, it was just a thought.
00:44:01Maybe a useful one.
00:44:03Well, that would explain why I didn't recognize her, sir.
00:44:14I knew every face for miles around.
00:44:16I'm sure you do, sergeant.
00:44:17Still, I have to start with the assumption
00:44:19that there's some connection between her and the family.
00:44:21I think I'll get the whole bunch down here.
00:44:24Hmm.
00:44:25Don't be firewax, sir.
00:44:26They hate the sight of each other.
00:44:27So I believe.
00:44:29Anyway, routine first.
00:44:31They got any other servants apart from this gardener?
00:44:33Yes, they have, inspector.
00:44:39Good Lord.
00:44:41You?
00:44:42Yes.
00:44:43Dotty old me.
00:44:45In there, please.
00:45:04It's only a cigarette packet of doubtful significance, I'd say.
00:45:11I'll bear your views in mind.
00:45:13Any idea what you expect your fellows to find?
00:45:17Clues.
00:45:18Well, naturally.
00:45:19But do you seriously think they'll find anything?
00:45:23Well, somebody dragged the body from there over to there.
00:45:27It's possible something could have been dropped in the process.
00:45:30Don't you agree?
00:45:31Yes.
00:45:32Yes, I do.
00:45:33Did you find anything?
00:45:35No, inspector.
00:45:35Not a thing.
00:45:37Family's here, by the way.
00:45:40I'll get around to them later.
00:45:42They'll enjoy that, I'm sure.
00:45:44Good hunting.
00:45:49Some silly idiot goes and strangles his girlfriend,
00:45:52which he probably richly deserves.
00:45:53And what do they do?
00:45:55Swarm all over the place,
00:45:57mess about in our private affairs.
00:45:58I said to this inspector fellow Haddock,
00:46:01or whatever his name is.
00:46:03Craddock, sir.
00:46:05Shall I pour?
00:46:06Of course.
00:46:08Anyway, I said to this fellow Haddock
00:46:10that no member of my family had ever seen the woman before.
00:46:13That was final.
00:46:14Well, what makes you so sure of that, Father?
00:46:16Oh, now, look here, Cedric.
00:46:17This is absurd.
00:46:18Well, after all, Harold,
00:46:19she wasn't somebody from around here,
00:46:20and she once found an old stable, wasn't she?
00:46:23Well, I first could have known her.
00:46:25She could have been your girlfriend, dear boy.
00:46:27What?
00:46:28Yeah, it's just I suppose
00:46:30Cedric has a point there.
00:46:32He never has a point.
00:46:33I mean, from the police point of view.
00:46:35It's all right for you, Eastleigh.
00:46:36I don't suppose you're too concerned
00:46:37with the family reputation.
00:46:39After all, you're not a member of it, are you?
00:46:42Strictly speaking.
00:46:43What I can't understand
00:46:44is who telephoned the police.
00:46:45Oh, I know who did that.
00:46:48Hello?
00:46:50Who?
00:46:50Obviously, someone who knew the body was there.
00:46:55Any coffee left, Jane?
00:46:58Help yourself.
00:47:01There certainly wasn't one of us.
00:47:03Who knows?
00:47:04Who cares who did it, anyway?
00:47:06The woman was probably a spy.
00:47:07That's absurd, Father.
00:47:09Well, the police think she was a foreigner, don't they?
00:47:11Lots of English girls go to Paris and buy French clothes.
00:47:14Decent ones, don't they?
00:47:16Dr. Crimper to see you, Mr. Ackenshorpe.
00:47:19Oh, still getting shot with revitalizers, Father?
00:47:22I'd take anything to outlive you lots
00:47:25and keep my property from your thieving hands.
00:47:32Well, I'll just go and see
00:47:33if I can be of any further assistance to the police.
00:47:36Delicious coffee, Jane.
00:47:41By the way,
00:47:43the inspector said he'd be interrogating you all later.
00:47:45Better get your alibis ready.
00:47:49He's a bright boy, that one.
00:47:51Well, let's face it.
00:47:52The police say the woman was murdered on Friday
00:47:54and we were down here last Friday.
00:47:57They're going to be very interested in all of us.
00:47:59None of us were here till quite late.
00:48:01Yes, but the point is
00:48:03what were we all doing earlier?
00:48:06Albert, what about you?
00:48:07Me?
00:48:08Yes, you.
00:48:09And don't tell me you're sitting in your office all day.
00:48:11I, well, no.
00:48:13Uh-huh.
00:48:13As a matter of fact,
00:48:15there was a film
00:48:16that I particularly wanted to see
00:48:17of Bridget Bardot.
00:48:20Oh, look, Cedric,
00:48:20this is preposterous.
00:48:22Oh, but is it, Harold?
00:48:23Anyway, what about you?
00:48:25Or can your secretary verify
00:48:26all your movements on that day?
00:48:29That's none of your business.
00:48:30Well, I'm in the clear.
00:48:32I was at my club.
00:48:34It has a back door, hasn't it?
00:48:36Yes, I think so.
00:48:37But I didn't get here until Saturday.
00:48:40But you could have lugged the body up here on Friday,
00:48:43slipped back to London,
00:48:44and be sitting in your usual chair
00:48:46when the club closed.
00:48:48And I suppose one of your women friends
00:48:50can vouch for you.
00:48:51Well, I'm certain my current comfort
00:48:52will satisfy the inspector completely.
00:48:55As no doubt will, your secretary.
00:48:59When you've finished here,
00:49:00will you kindly bring me some fresh coffee
00:49:02into the library?
00:49:03Certainly, sir.
00:49:05Oh, well, jumpy, isn't he?
00:49:08And you're very calm.
00:49:10But then I've no reason not to be.
00:49:11I've just been thinking.
00:49:19If that woman was foreign...
00:49:21You should think of girls more often, Albert.
00:49:23Might bring about some interesting changes in you.
00:49:25I know it's laughable.
00:49:26I agree.
00:49:27No, but I mean,
00:49:28if she was French,
00:49:30could be her, I suppose.
00:49:32Why'd I give up?
00:49:33Could be who?
00:49:34That Martine woman.
00:49:36Martine?
00:49:37Yes.
00:49:38You know that French farm girl
00:49:39we had all the trouble about?
00:49:41The one Edmund was so infatuated with
00:49:43before he was killed.
00:49:44But that was ages ago.
00:49:45Yes, I know.
00:49:47Still, I suppose it is possible.
00:49:50But why should she turn up dead
00:49:52in our stable 16 years later?
00:49:54Oh, it's preposterous.
00:49:56Well, it isn't my idea.
00:49:58Well, whose idea is it, then?
00:50:00Well, Emma's.
00:50:03Emma?
00:50:04Emma's?
00:50:06That's odd.
00:50:11Paul.
00:50:14Paul.
00:50:30Darling.
00:50:31No, Paul.
00:50:32Please.
00:50:33How much longer are we going on like this, Emma?
00:50:35We've got to tell the old man
00:50:37whether he likes it or not.
00:50:38Not yet.
00:50:38Please, not yet.
00:50:39Why?
00:50:39Why?
00:50:41Paul, I...
00:50:42I think someone in the family
00:50:44may be a murderer.
00:50:46Emma?
00:50:48I've had a letter.
00:50:50I can't keep it to myself any longer.
00:50:52I want you to read it.
00:50:53I'm afraid my French isn't up to this, Emma.
00:50:58Oh.
00:51:00Dear Miss Ackenthorpe,
00:51:02you will be surprised to hear
00:51:03after so many years
00:51:04that you have a sister-in-law.
00:51:07I married your brother, Edmund,
00:51:09two days before he was killed in action.
00:51:11I decided it was best to forget the marriage,
00:51:14but now I'm planning a visit to England,
00:51:16and I find I do wish to meet you all.
00:51:19I write to you instead of your father
00:51:21because I understand he is a sick man,
00:51:24and my existence may come as a shock to him,
00:51:27as it must be to you all.
00:51:29Sincerely yours,
00:51:31Martine Ackenthorpe.
00:51:33But I thought Edmund was killed
00:51:35before they had a chance to marry.
00:51:37That's what we all thought.
00:51:39What's on your mind, Edmund?
00:51:41Oh, don't you see?
00:51:42The strangled woman,
00:51:42it must have been Martine.
00:51:44Listen, if she could have proved
00:51:46she was really Edmund's widow,
00:51:47she'd have been entitled
00:51:48to a share in the will.
00:51:49Oh, I see.
00:51:52Paul, what shall I do?
00:51:54Have you told the others?
00:51:56No.
00:51:57I did suggest to Albert
00:51:58that if the woman was French,
00:52:00she might be Martine.
00:52:01What did he say?
00:52:02He said it was fantastic,
00:52:04but I think he was worried.
00:52:09You'll have to tell the police.
00:52:11They're bound to think
00:52:12one of the family did this.
00:52:13What else can you do?
00:52:14I don't know.
00:52:15I don't know.
00:52:17I think you must tell them.
00:52:20I'll have to think about this.
00:52:23You'd better go.
00:52:24I'll have to think about you.
00:52:43I'll have to think about you.
00:53:14Oh, there you are.
00:53:31The train was late, Mrs. Moutler.
00:53:33Oh, good evening, Inspector.
00:53:36I suppose you knew about this compact business too.
00:53:39Well, I...
00:53:40Before I did, no doubt.
00:53:41Well, you see...
00:53:42I thought it best to bring the inspector in on this after all, Mr. Springer.
00:53:45Yes, very wise, very wise.
00:53:47I'm glad you think so.
00:53:49Withholding information from the police is a very serious matter.
00:53:52Oh, I know, Inspector.
00:53:53And I'm most awfully sorry.
00:53:55Will you take tea?
00:53:56Oh, thank you, no.
00:53:57Mr. Springer, don't you realize what this means?
00:54:00The compact having been stolen from your room?
00:54:02Coffee, perhaps.
00:54:03It means that the thief and the murderer are almost certainly one and the same, and that
00:54:07he or she is in that house, and that your life may be in great danger.
00:54:11Oh, I say, do you really think so?
00:54:15I must ask you to give the whole thing up immediately.
00:54:18Tonight.
00:54:18Yes, of course.
00:54:19Indeed, you must, Miss Marple.
00:54:25Very well, then.
00:54:26I'll give in my notice tomorrow.
00:54:28Good.
00:54:30That's settled then.
00:54:31It has to be a month's notice, you know.
00:54:34Will you have a small beer, Inspector?
00:54:36Miss Marple, I...
00:54:37Oh, what's the use?
00:54:44Good night.
00:54:45Good night.
00:54:48Well, now, how did you get on at the probate registry?
00:54:52Oh, really, Miss Marple, I think in view of what the inspector said.
00:54:55Did you see the will?
00:54:57Yes.
00:54:58And what did it say?
00:55:00Well, old Mr. Ackenthorpe's father obviously didn't get on very well with him.
00:55:05I'm not surprised at that.
00:55:06Go on.
00:55:06You see, the house and the income from the family fortune are his.
00:55:11But he can't touch the fortune itself.
00:55:14That's the first point.
00:55:17Yes?
00:55:18The second point is that the fortune goes to his children on his death.
00:55:22That is, to Emma, Cedric, Harold and Albert.
00:55:24Yes.
00:55:25Two of the others named in the will, Edith and Edmund, are already dead, of course.
00:55:29Hmm.
00:55:30Not much more for the rest, eh?
00:55:32Well, young Alexander, Edith's son, gets her share.
00:55:34Oh, what about the boy's father, Eastleigh?
00:55:36Next of kin, ain't he coming for a share if there's no issue of a marriage.
00:55:40So Eastleigh's only interest is how much young Alexander gets.
00:55:43It's a quimper to see you, sir.
00:55:45Oh, yes.
00:55:46Send him in.
00:55:46Your call to the probate registry has been very useful.
00:55:50Thanks.
00:55:53Morning, Inspector.
00:55:53Oh, morning, Doctor.
00:55:54Sit down.
00:55:57Have you found out who the woman is yet?
00:55:59The French police haven't come up with anything so far, sir.
00:56:02Oh, you are working on the assumption that she's French, then.
00:56:05The clothes and makeup did turn out to be made in Paris, yes.
00:56:09Is that what you wanted to see me about?
00:56:11No, sir.
00:56:12I understand last Christmas old Mr. Ankingthorpe had a stomach upset.
00:56:18Yes, he's inclined to overindulge when there's too much rich food about.
00:56:22But he said you'd asked him a lot of questions.
00:56:25So you suspected arsenic poisoning.
00:56:28All right.
00:56:28For the moment, I did suspect something was a bit odd.
00:56:32Didn't you run a food test?
00:56:33No.
00:56:34Why not?
00:56:35Well, it was nothing positive.
00:56:37No history of chronic gastric troubles such as one would expect to find in the classic method of arsenic poisoning.
00:56:43You mean small doses administered regularly?
00:56:46Exactly.
00:56:48Excuse me.
00:56:54Yes?
00:56:56Oh, put her on.
00:56:58Miss Ankingthorpe.
00:57:00Emma?
00:57:03Yes.
00:57:06Hello.
00:57:07Oh, morning.
00:57:08I've had a letter.
00:57:10I see.
00:57:12Well, would you read the letter to me?
00:57:25I'd like to send round for that letter, if you don't mind, Miss Ankingthorpe.
00:57:28Yes, we'll check with the French police.
00:57:31Good night.
00:57:34Do you know what that was about, Doctor?
00:57:36Yes, I think I do.
00:57:40Why didn't you tell me?
00:57:43I'm in love with Emma, Inspector.
00:57:45I want to marry her.
00:57:47And I told her I thought she ought to tell you about this.
00:57:50But you didn't insist?
00:57:51No.
00:57:52It was important to me, to us, that she made up her own mind.
00:57:57I understand, Doctor.
00:57:57Well, thank you.
00:57:58Is that all?
00:58:02Doctor, do you think the dead woman is Martine Akingthorpe?
00:58:05Well, who else could it be?
00:58:07Do you think she was killed by a member of the family?
00:58:09I'd rather not answer that, Inspector.
00:58:14All right, Doctor.
00:58:16Thank you very much.
00:58:29Well, sir?
00:58:31I'm worried, Bacon.
00:58:33About the doctor?
00:58:34No, no, not him.
00:58:37I'm worried about Miss Marple.
00:59:04Looking for something, sir?
00:59:29looking for something sir are you are you all right yes perfectly thank you mr easley what is
00:59:40it you want well i just thought i'd take up the old boy's nightcap and save you the trouble
00:59:45oh that's kind of you it is ready
00:59:48hmm storm i expect the electricity supply is rather shaky like the rest of the place
01:00:04you're a little shaky too aren't you oh no not at all thank you thank you
01:00:18so
01:00:48oh my goodness what are you doing looking for light
01:01:17you ought to be asleep i happen to be reading oh may i ask what you're doing trying to provide
01:01:25light oh i see well you won't find it there you know indeed it's a power failure often happens
01:01:33may i borrow this alexander come back good night jane
01:01:36who's that who is it
01:01:50oh mr sidley it's a power failure often happens i'll have to find some candles if you'll excuse me just
01:01:58a minute my sister said you started work here only a few days ago yes you don't look like a domestic to me
01:02:07i have to earn my living mr rackenthorpe like anybody else but the day after you arrived the body was discovered
01:02:14you found it didn't you what makes you think that because it fits and so neatly
01:02:21you telephoned the police didn't you i assure you i am not the person who telephoned the police
01:02:26you are not no who are you what are you doing here i have already told you
01:02:34well i'm going to watch you very closely miss marple jane
01:02:38oh hillman i want to have a word with you
01:02:58oh
01:03:08oh
01:03:32Here!
01:03:39Help!
01:03:46What is it?
01:03:47Ow!
01:03:48C12 and all!
01:03:53Alexander, call the doctor.
01:03:56Quickly!
01:03:57There's nothing I could do for him, I'm afraid, Inspector.
01:04:03How are the others now?
01:04:05Well, Emma, Cedric, Harold and Eastleigh have had only comparatively minor effects.
01:04:10And the old man will be all right. He's a tough old bird.
01:04:13He'll be recovered by morning.
01:04:18No doubts about the cause.
01:04:20No. They're all poisoned.
01:04:23No. Thank you, Doctor.
01:04:25Crimper! Crimper!
01:04:28Harold, I might have expected him to bellow the hardest.
01:04:38This is the last chicken stock.
01:04:48Finished, Sergeant?
01:04:49Just about, sir.
01:04:50See, that stuff gets down to the lab right away.
01:04:52We're pretty well all through tonight.
01:04:55Well, Miss Marple?
01:04:56Mushroom soup.
01:04:57Curried duck, rice, and apple pie.
01:04:58Ah, thank you.
01:04:59Mushroom soup out of a can, I suppose.
01:05:00Certainly not.
01:05:01Half a pound of mushrooms.
01:05:02Chicken stock, milk, flour, butter, lemon juice.
01:05:05Touch of herbs.
01:05:06Hmm.
01:05:07Mushrooms.
01:05:08I had some of the soup myself.
01:05:09Superb.
01:05:10I'm sure.
01:05:11The pie.
01:05:12I'm afraid I never can resist my own pie, Inspector.
01:05:13Anybody else's, of course.
01:05:14The curry.
01:05:15Exactly.
01:05:16Good, of course.
01:05:17But rice, you see.
01:05:18Fattening.
01:05:19And as I was having the pie.
01:05:20Where did the duck come from?
01:05:21Oh, those.
01:05:22Mr. Harold chopped them.
01:05:23He seems to be rather fond of killing things.
01:05:24Oh, I'm sure.
01:05:25I'm sure.
01:05:26I'm sure.
01:05:27The pie.
01:05:28I'm afraid I never can resist my own pie, Inspector.
01:05:31Anybody else's, of course.
01:05:32The curry.
01:05:33Exactly.
01:05:34Good, of course.
01:05:35But rice, you see.
01:05:37Fattening.
01:05:38And as I was having the pie.
01:05:39Where did the duck come from?
01:05:40Oh, those.
01:05:41Mr. Harold chopped them.
01:05:42He seems to be rather fond of killing things.
01:05:43The boy, Alexander, he doesn't seem to have had any curry either.
01:05:45No.
01:05:46Not a good appeal to him.
01:05:47Curious child.
01:05:48Well, did anyone come into the kitchen while the cooking was going on?
01:05:49Not a good appeal to him.
01:05:50Curious child.
01:05:51Well, did anyone come into the kitchen while the cooking was going on?
01:05:54Not while I was there.
01:05:55I do have other duties, you know.
01:05:56Anyone could have come in then?
01:06:01Six people are poisoned.
01:06:05Only one dies.
01:06:06I'm thinking about that too, dear.
01:06:07Well, I'm not a good appeal to him.
01:06:08But I'm not a good appeal to him.
01:06:09No, not a good appeal to him.
01:06:10Curious child.
01:06:11Well, did anyone come into the kitchen while the cooking was going on?
01:06:12Not while I was there.
01:06:13I do have other duties, you know.
01:06:16Anyone could have come in then?
01:06:17Yeah.
01:06:18Six people are poisoned.
01:06:20Only one dies.
01:06:23I'm thinking about that too, Inspector.
01:06:26Excuse me, sir.
01:06:27Message from the Chief Constable.
01:06:28He's waiting up to hear your report.
01:06:30All right.
01:06:31In person, sir.
01:06:33Right, Sergeant.
01:06:34Get the car around.
01:06:35I'll be out in a minute.
01:06:36Very good.
01:06:41I think the two killings are connected.
01:06:43Don't you?
01:06:44Yes, I do.
01:06:45Now, we've got to find out who has that compact, Miss Marple.
01:06:48So far, I've only been able to search one room.
01:06:51No?
01:06:52Who's?
01:06:53Unfortunately, Albert's.
01:06:55Oh.
01:06:56Miss Marple, I have to go now.
01:06:59Oh, yes.
01:07:00I know.
01:07:01A policeman's work is never done.
01:07:05Or a woman's.
01:07:09I was going to say, please be careful.
01:07:12And if you do think of anything, I hope you'll take me into your confidence this time.
01:07:17Okay.
01:07:18Hit it directly with the
01:07:22Or
01:07:32Tee, Brooks.
01:07:35Take it.
01:07:36Look at me.
01:07:37Hi, Duck.
01:07:38Hey, Tim.
01:07:39the lab boys turned it up as arsenic in the curry not a lot just enough for
01:07:54stomachaches all the way around not enough to kill so Albert must have had an
01:07:59extra dose yes but why poison the others at all if the poisoner is a member of
01:08:04the family he had to be ill as well well say it isn't sir I mean that gardener
01:08:10of theirs Hillman there's talk in the local pub that he's in for a nice little
01:08:14bequest when old Ackenthorpe goes what is possibility sir I'm getting the dead woman
01:08:19begging this poisoner makes it pretty certain to me that she was Martine
01:08:23Ackenthorpe oh French police come up with something then only there's no record of
01:08:28a marriage the village where Edmund Ackenthorpe was stationed was blown to
01:08:31bits during the war all the files from the town hall destroyed well then sir
01:08:35why don't you see bacon it's the pattern of the killings only a member of the
01:08:39family would want to get rid of her too yes kill off all your relations at easy
01:08:43stages except the old man when he dies a natural death inherit the entire fortune
01:08:48as well as the property Albert must have got his second dose after dinner possibly
01:08:55I shouldn't drink that why not because it's lunchtime oh what is it beef broth baked custard beef
01:09:15broth but I ordered beef steak the doctor said beef broth what are the blazes with him I give the orders in this house I'm sick of slops take it away
01:09:23certainly
01:09:34Hilbert another bottle surely you realize that if the woman was Martine by showing
01:09:40that letter to the police you've pointed the finger at one of us not only for her
01:09:44death but Albert's too exactly one of us I might have expected that from you oh come
01:09:50now you're thinking along exactly the same lines as I am if you didn't do it that is
01:09:54you're probably thinking it was me stop it stop it or even you dear Emma look I think we've had just about enough of this nonsense
01:10:03I bet the police don't think it's nonsense oh now listen Cedric say what you like about the rest of us but please leave Emma out of it
01:10:10well it could be argued you know that uh Emma kept that letter to herself until she could use it to her own advantage
01:10:17I think you'd better explain that well let's face it the moment Martine's body was discovered everyone in this family was under suspicion
01:10:27including you Emma and the moment you produced that letter voluntarily everyone was under suspicion excluding you
01:10:35hmm I hadn't thought of it like that
01:10:41you must be around the bend that woman was strangled do you think your sister capable of doing a thing like that
01:10:48oh but uh Emma's an attractive woman don't you think so
01:10:52well well an attractive woman doesn't need to do her own dirty work does she
01:10:57come along Emma I think we'd better leave them to it
01:11:01no no Eastley Emma has her eye on the good doctor you know
01:11:05I'm ready it's not going to be so easy for you to marry into the family for a second time
01:11:09oh that hit home didn't it yes and I'm about ready to break your blasted neck
01:11:16very possibly but tell me something first
01:11:19you deny meeting Emma secretly in the grounds the night before the body was discovered
01:11:23well I had Hillman saw you you know
01:11:28all right we didn't meet that night yes
01:11:31he asked me to intercede with father
01:11:34oh what for
01:11:36I wanted to borrow money if you must know
01:11:38I wanted to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money if you want to borrow money
01:12:08Oh, my goodness.
01:12:38What are you doing?
01:12:40Making up the bed.
01:12:41But you made it up this morning.
01:12:43Yes.
01:12:44But the pillow slits need changing.
01:12:46They look perfectly all right to me.
01:12:48But not to me.
01:12:50What am I doing?
01:12:59I do wish that woman would hurry up.
01:13:01They know I don't like being here after dark.
01:13:03What are you feared of?
01:13:05Some men will get you?
01:13:08You know, it's funny how things always come together.
01:13:11My sister's eldest had measles.
01:13:13And then her Ernie fell and broke his arm.
01:13:15And her husband come out all over with boils.
01:13:17All in the same week.
01:13:19You wouldn't believe it, would you?
01:13:21It's gonna be the same thing here.
01:13:23First that nasty murder.
01:13:25And then Mr. Albert poisoned.
01:13:27It's gonna be the next, I'd like to know.
01:13:29Things always go in threes.
01:13:32Here you are, Mrs. Skinner.
01:13:34I'm sorry to have kept you.
01:13:35But the doctor has been with Mr. Ackenthorpe.
01:13:37Long wait for very little.
01:13:43The younger generation.
01:13:45Well, I don't know.
01:14:07Miller верс is gonna do something for you to go.
01:14:09�еть is now about $520,000, in one man.
01:14:13The after-and-this is gonna be a policeman.
01:14:15But he'll have going to beam me back into you.
01:14:17Here's the eyes.
01:14:18He'll have to keep me areling within me.
01:14:19You look.
01:14:20Mr. Albert has been going over atquelic discrimination.
01:14:22It's000 times.
01:14:25I never really looked at his house, but I keep to agree friends.
01:14:27What's the matter with you?
01:14:45It's Mr. Harold.
01:14:49When is that he used this on himself or did somebody else pull the trigger?
01:14:53Well, it led up. It was suicide.
01:14:54Harold killed the other two, got cold feet and took what is laughingly called the easy way out.
01:15:01All of them knew he liked an hour or two shooting before dinner whenever he was at the hall.
01:15:04But he was shot from a range of about two inches.
01:15:07All right.
01:15:08Someone who knows comes up to him, casually asks to have a look at the gun and...
01:15:13Still could have been suicide there.
01:15:15If I were the murderer, that's exactly what I'd want us to think.
01:15:19One thing's sure, we can't risk any more killings. Come on.
01:15:22Where to, sir?
01:15:22The hall.
01:15:23Well, I'm going to find that compact if I have to turn the whole place and everyone in it upside down.
01:15:30Oh, excuse me, sir. There's a lady to see you, sir. Miss Marple.
01:15:34Oh, come in.
01:15:36Good afternoon, Miss Marple.
01:15:38You were going somewhere?
01:15:39Yes.
01:15:40Then I'll come to the point at once.
01:15:41A beautiful little piece, isn't it?
01:15:58Who had it?
01:15:58Young Alexander.
01:16:01What?
01:16:02I should have realized, of course, that boy's incorrigible.
01:16:05Playing it in the middle of the night like that.
01:16:07Typical.
01:16:08So we're back where we started.
01:16:09Oh, no, Inspector.
01:16:10I think I know who our murderer is.
01:16:15The difficulty is going to be getting him to show his hand.
01:16:18Sit down, Miss Marple.
01:16:23Oh, hold that expression, Emma.
01:16:37Oh, pity you sported.
01:16:38What's the matter, darling?
01:16:41Things not working out for you?
01:16:43How do you manage to make everything you say sound like an insinuation?
01:16:47He works at it.
01:16:48For heaven's sake, stop fussing, Crimper.
01:16:50If I wish to come down, I shall do so.
01:16:54I think this, Joe Hillman.
01:16:56Father, don't you think...
01:16:56Now, don't you start.
01:16:58Sorry, Emma, but you know what he's like when his mind is made up.
01:17:01I'm not going to stay up there all alone.
01:17:04Might get murdered in me bed.
01:17:06At least there's some safety in numbers.
01:17:08I quite agree with you, Father.
01:17:09Well, that makes a nice change.
01:17:11I want a drink.
01:17:12No, not you.
01:17:13Crimper.
01:17:14Then I must be going.
01:17:18Don't smother me with it, man.
01:17:20Put it by me knees.
01:17:21Well, this is all very nice and cozy.
01:17:23How about a rubber bridge?
01:17:25Well, it's just a thought.
01:17:26What have you got there, boy?
01:17:38Oh, a charming little thing.
01:17:40French, second empire.
01:17:42Pretty valuable, I'd say.
01:17:44Where'd you get it?
01:17:45It belongs to Miss Markle.
01:17:47Oh.
01:17:48You'd better give it back to her, haven't you?
01:17:50I only borrowed it.
01:17:51I'll drop it in on my way to bed.
01:17:52I'll drop it in on my way to bed.
01:18:44Come in, Doctor.
01:18:52You're expecting me.
01:18:55Didn't Alexander tell you?
01:18:57Tell me what?
01:19:01Forgetful boy.
01:19:03I have a sore throat, Doctor.
01:19:05And I asked him to ask you to be kind enough to have a look at it before you left.
01:19:10I see.
01:19:10I'm sorry to trouble you. I haven't had one of these throats in years.
01:19:16Well, you've been lucky, Miss Markle. Any headaches?
01:19:20No, just the sore throat.
01:19:22Mm-hmm. Well, we'll have a look.
01:19:27This is rather attractive.
01:19:29Yes, isn't it?
01:19:30Where did you get it?
01:19:32I found it.
01:19:33Oh? Where?
01:19:34In the stables here.
01:19:36Really?
01:19:39Open wide, please.
01:19:42Say, ah.
01:19:43Ah.
01:19:43No inflammation.
01:19:47Don't you think that was a little dishonest?
01:19:50Keeping the compact, I mean?
01:19:52Under the circumstances, Doctor, no.
01:19:54Is there any swelling?
01:19:59I don't think so.
01:20:06I've seen you like that once before, Doctor.
01:20:09Your hands at a woman's throat.
01:20:11It was on a train.
01:20:12And you were strangling her.
01:20:14That's quite an allegation.
01:20:26I have a few more.
01:20:29Oh?
01:20:30You come for the compact because you had given it to that woman.
01:20:34And it might be traced back to you.
01:20:38I think she was your wife.
01:20:41Do you?
01:20:41You killed her after you had written that letter to Emma.
01:20:46Signing it, Martine Ackenthorpe.
01:20:50Why should I do that?
01:20:52The murder, so that you would then be free to marry Emma.
01:20:57The letter, so that people would think the dead woman was Martine
01:21:01and look among the family for the killer.
01:21:04Never at you.
01:21:11How did you arrive at this fascinating hypothesis?
01:21:18It was I who found her body.
01:21:20Martine was, or is, for all I know, a Normandy peasant.
01:21:25The dead woman had never worked on a farm in her life.
01:21:28I saw her hands.
01:21:30Go on.
01:21:32Certainly.
01:21:34Certainly.
01:21:35You then proceeded to augment your prospects
01:21:37by eliminating Albert and Harold.
01:21:41How conceivably?
01:21:43You contrived to introduce arsenic into my curry,
01:21:47which I find unforgivable, by the way,
01:21:51knowing that you would be called on to deal with the after effects.
01:21:55Easy, then, to give Albert his final dose in the medicine.
01:21:59And Harold?
01:22:00Harold, you shot him and made it look like suicide.
01:22:06Ingenious, I must admit.
01:22:08More than that.
01:22:10Now that you are here to secure your dead wife's compad,
01:22:14a fair case.
01:22:17Yes.
01:22:19A pity you won't be able to present it.
01:22:22One more murder, Doctor.
01:22:24Might be one too many.
01:22:26This won't look like murder, Miss Marple.
01:22:28The death certificate signed by me, of course,
01:22:31will register heart failure.
01:22:37You all right?
01:22:37Yes, sir.
01:22:40You're under arrest, and I must warn you
01:22:42that everything I've said has been taken down
01:22:44and will be used in evidence.
01:22:46You were right about everything, of course.
01:22:48You're a very brave woman, Miss Marple.
01:23:12Good night.
01:23:13Oh!
01:23:40About time too.
01:23:43I was coming up to see you, you know, before leaving.
01:23:46No need to leave.
01:23:47I have my own home, Mr. Lackenthorpe.
01:23:50Sell it!
01:23:51Why on earth should I?
01:23:53Well, taking one thing and another.
01:23:57I mean, you're a fair cook.
01:24:00And you seem to have your wits about you.
01:24:04Well, I decided to marry you.
01:24:08Well?
01:24:11Well, I'm honored, of course.
01:24:13Of course you are.
01:24:14But come to the point.
01:24:16I'm afraid that cannot be.
01:24:18Why?
01:24:19Well, if ever I do embark on such a venture, there is someone else.
01:24:25Nonsense.
01:24:27I don't believe it.
01:24:28Who on earth would have you?
01:24:30Apparently you, for one, Mr. Lackenthorpe.
01:24:33Goodbye.
01:24:34Goodbye.
01:24:46The woman must be completely unbalanced.
01:24:48Oh, Miss Marple.
01:24:49I'm so glad.
01:24:50How good of you to come.
01:24:51Let me give you a hand.
01:24:53Ha!
01:24:55Ha!
01:24:59Ah!
01:25:08Ha!
01:25:09Ha, ha!
01:25:12Ha!
01:25:14Ha!
01:25:16Ha!
01:25:17Ha!
01:25:19Ha!
01:25:20Ha!
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