Murder Ahoy Music

Hogan

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Apr 26, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/26/97

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Can anyone help with the title of the music used throughout the film
Murder Ahoy, which starred Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple and Lionel
Jeffries.

I think the same tune or a variation may have been used as a theme
through other Rutherford/Marple films in the series.

Afterthought...What were those other film titles?
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Paul

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Apr 27, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/27/97

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On Sat, 26 Apr 1997 21:47:21 +0100, Hogan <ho...@xhogan.demon.co.uk>
wrote:

I'm not sure about the music, but the other movies are:

Murder She Said (1961)
Murder at the Gallop (1963)
Murder Most Foul (1964)

By the way, she did a cameo in another Agatha Christie movie, "The
Alphapet Murders" (1966)

Paul
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Peter A. Kartsev

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Apr 27, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/27/97

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The same theme was indeed used for the other Rutherford/Marple
films and since it was original music by Ron Goodwin, written
specially for the series, I am not sure it had a title.

Peter.

Amxhi

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Apr 28, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/28/97

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Margaret Rutherfords best movie was "V.I.P.'s" With Elizabeth Taylor. I
believe she won an oscar of it. It was a "Grand Hotel" of the 60's.

FRAJM

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Apr 28, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/28/97

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Ron Goodwin was the composer and arranger for Dame Margaret's
Miss Marple films.

BTW, Rutherford has got to be one of the funniest women ever to
grace the films. Remember her as the Duchess of Grand Fenwick
in _The Mouse That Roared_ and _The Mouse on the Moon_? She
was fabu in _Blithe Spirit_ and _The Importance of Being Earnest_,
too.

She won an Oscar for _The V.I.P.s, a not very interesting
Taylor-Burton vehicle. And, yes, she appears in a cameo as Miss
Marple in _The Alphabet Murders_ with Tony Randall of all people
Hercule Poirot.

And, in _Murder, She Said_, Rutherford has a scene with Joan
Hickson, who later played Miss Marple on TV. Hickson's Marple
is more authentically Christie, but Rutherford's is a lot funnier, of
course.

Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
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Apr 29, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/29/97

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fr...@aol.com (FRAJM) wrote:

>Ron Goodwin was the composer and arranger for Dame Margaret's
>Miss Marple films.

>BTW, Rutherford has got to be one of the funniest women ever to
>grace the films. Remember her as the Duchess of Grand Fenwick
>in _The Mouse That Roared_ and _The Mouse on the Moon_?

Rutherford played the Duchess in THE MOUSE ON THE MOON but
the original, in THE MOUSE THAT ROARED, was Dame Peter
Sellars.

Abfou

FRAJM

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May 1, 1997, 3:00:00 AM5/1/97

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Quite right, Rutherford was not in _The Mouse That Roared_.
Thanks for the correction.

opus27...@gmail.com

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May 11, 2017, 4:45:25 PM5/11/17

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It sounds very very similar to , Pederewski, minuet in g.

moviePig

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May 11, 2017, 5:48:33 PM5/11/17

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On 5/11/2017 4:45 PM, opus27...@gmail.com wrote:
> It sounds very very similar to , Pederewski, minuet in g.

I've noticed that, and think it's intentional.

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kerrison1...@yahoo.co.uk

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May 14, 2017, 3:16:26 AM5/14/17

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> > It sounds very very similar to , Pederewski, minuet in g.
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> I've noticed that, and think it's intentional.
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Well, here is Ron Goodwin's Miss Marple theme in its entirety ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG-ZO26pnE8

And here is Paderewski playing his own Minuet from a 1937 movie ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9IBBd-9aRM

Stephen DeMay

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May 14, 2017, 2:56:15 PM5/14/17

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Those Poles went to the Jane Powell school of dance. Rutherford as Marpole is an hard to take.