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The film was made in 1964 and directed by George Pollock, with David Pursall and Jack Seddon credited with the script. The music was by Ron Goodwin. Unlike the previous three films that were adapted from The 4.50 from Paddington (Murder, She Said - the only Miss Marple novel used), After the Funeral (a Poirot mystery, adapted for Miss Marple with the title Murder at the Gallop) and Mrs. McGinty's Dead (another Poirot novel, adapted as Murder Most Foul) - this film used an original screenplay that was not based on any of Christie's stories.

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  • The film was made in 1964 and directed by George Pollock, with David Pursall and Jack Seddon credited with the script. The music was by Ron Goodwin. Unlike the previous three films that were adapted from The 4.50 from Paddington (Murder, She Said - the only Miss Marple novel used), After the Funeral (a Poirot mystery, adapted for Miss Marple with the title Murder at the Gallop) and Mrs. McGinty's Dead (another Poirot novel, adapted as Murder Most Foul) - this film used an original screenplay that was not based on any of Christie's stories.
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  • The film was made in 1964 and directed by George Pollock, with David Pursall and Jack Seddon credited with the script. The music was by Ron Goodwin. Unlike the previous three films that were adapted from The 4.50 from Paddington (Murder, She Said - the only Miss Marple novel used), After the Funeral (a Poirot mystery, adapted for Miss Marple with the title Murder at the Gallop) and Mrs. McGinty's Dead (another Poirot novel, adapted as Murder Most Foul) - this film used an original screenplay that was not based on any of Christie's stories. The film does, however, employ elements of the Miss Marple story They Do It With Mirrors. Specifically, the Battledorn is a training ship for teenage boys with criminal tendencies, who are supposedly being set on the straight and narrow path - when, in fact, one of the members of the crew is training them for careers in housebreaking. Likewise, in They Do It WIth Mirrors, Lewis Serrocold is running his wife's mansion, Stonygates, as a boarding school for delinquent youths, to straighten out their lives - but, in fact, he is training selected students to hone their criminal skills, not to give them up. That is the only element borrowed into the film from a Christie story. There is also an entirely tongue-in-cheek reference to The Mousetrap, the Christie play that has been running continuously on the West End since 1952. Audiences who see The Mousetrap are asked to keep the ending a secret, so it is amusing when Margaret Rutherford's Miss Marple says that she's reading a "rattling-good detective yarn" and "I hope I won't be giving too much away if I say the answer is a mousetrap!" She then notes that she'll "say no more - otherwise, I'll spoil it for you!"
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