
During an annual board of trustees meeting, one of the trustees dies. Miss Marple thinks he’s been poisoned after finding a chemical on him. She sets off to investigate at the ship where he had just come from. The fourth and final film from the Miss Marple series starring Margaret Rutherford as the quirky amateur detective.
Cast

Margaret Rutherford
Miss Jane Marple

Lionel Jeffries
Captain Rhumstone

Stringer Davis
Jim Stringer

Charles Tingwell
Inspector Craddock

William Mervyn
Breeze-Connington

Henry Oscar
Lord Rudkin

Joan Benham
Alice Fanbraid

Nicholas Parsons
Dr. Crump

Miles Malleson
Bishop

Derek Nimmo
Sub-Lt. Eric Humbert
Gerald Cross
Brewer
Norma Foster
Asst. Matron Shirley Boston

Terence Edmond
Sgt. Bacon

Francis Matthews
Lt. Compton

Lucy Griffiths
Millie
Bernard Adams
Dusty Miller
Edna Petrie
Miss Pringle

Roy Holder
Petty Officer Lamb
Tony Quinn
Tramp
Crew

George Pollock
Director
David Pursall
Screenplay
Jack Seddon
Screenplay

Agatha Christie
Novel
Ernest Walter
Editor
Desmond Dickinson
Director of Photography
David Tomblin
Assistant Director
Lawrence P. Bachmann
Producer
Ben Arbeid
Associate Producer
Alan McCabe
Camera Operator

Irene Howard
Casting
Allan Sones
Sound Editor
J.B. Smith
Sound Mixer
Fred Turtle
Sound Recordist
Ron Goodwin
Original Music Composer
A.W. Watkins
Recording Supervision
Sydney Streeter
Production Manager
William C. Andrews
Art Direction
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