Word: galloped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Murder at the Gallop. Dewlaps aflap, flanks armored in stoutest tweeds, Margaret Rutherford rides into battle against crime-murder most foul. Once again she plays Agatha Christie's indomitable Miss Marple, and once again she proves that she may well be the funniest woman alive...
...school. And at a Pioneer Camp, he left everyone limp with happy exhaustion: first, he took two kids by the hand and started slowly walking, while the others trailed dubiously behind. Then he was whooping and laughing and fast-stepping, next trotting, and finally he broke into a full gallop across the field with the whole camp of 600 streaming along in joyful pursuit. Mused one observer: "A regular Pied Piper." · · · For a year now, Somerset Maugham, 89, growing ever more crotchety with age, has been trying to disavow Lady John Hope, 47, the daughter with whom...
Murder at the Gallop. A body lies on the floor. A little to one side, on all fours, crouches a fat old bloodhound. Its ears are pendulous, its muzzle is prominent, its bloodshot eyes stare dolefully out of enormous pouches. "Dead!" the bloodhound woofs with astonishment, and then, with a dramatic flourish of its dewlaps, the comical creature rears up on its skinny hind legs and goes waddling off on the scent of the killer...
...dear old dog, as connoisseurs of screen comedy will quickly surmise, is Britain's Margaret Rutherford (TIME, May 24), a 71-year-old crock of charm who, pound for pound, is possibly the funniest woman alive. In Gallop, the film version of an Agatha Christie thriller called After the Funeral, Actress Rutherford once more portrays Miss Jane Marple, a dotty old dame with a weakness for cookies and a nose for blood...
This time she follows her nose to a country inn called The Gallop, where she slouches about indomitably in tweeds that could stop a bullet. "Murder most foul!" she keeps muttering to herself, and sometimes she adds: "I know my duty!" Occasionally she exceeds it. In a scene that is mercifully brief, no doubt at the insistence of the R.S.P.C.A., Actress Rutherford actually dares to ride a horse-to avoid confusion in this episode, it is helpful to remember that the heroine wears the hat. And later on she ventures to do the twist-she does it perhaps not wisely...