Murder Most Foul (1964)

Margaret Rutherford: Miss Jane Marple

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Quotes 

• [the judge has just declared a retrial because the jury cannot agree on a unanimous verdict - it is Miss Marple whose verdict differs from all the other jurors] 

  Inspector Craddock : [sighing]  If ever there was an open-and-shut case, this was it. One member of that jury was being deliberately perverse.

  [Miss Marple walks up] 

  Miss Jane Marple : Many more than one, Inspector, I assure you. Eleven, to be precise.

  Police Constable Wells : That woman has made a mockery of my one and only murder.

• Miss Jane Marple : [to Craddock]  It may irritate you, Inspector, but sometimes women have superior minds. You'll simply have to accept it.

• [last lines] 

  Miss Jane Marple : Mr. Cosgood, whatever I may or may not be, I am definitely no angel... Good-bye! Good luck!

• H. Driffold Cosgood : [to Miss Marple]  I'll fetch the scripts right away.

  [to Ralph] 

  H. Driffold Cosgood : Ralph, call the theater. Tell them we're rehearsing on stage for a week...

  Miss Jane Marple : Mr. Cosgood, I wouldn't think I was anyone's idea of a detective.

  H. Driffold Cosgood : Not anyone's, dear Miss Marple, but you're mine. You're certainly mine.

  Ralph Summers : ...and mine!

• Miss Jane Marple : He isn't drunk. He's dead.