Word: sleuthing
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...police station: he meets Margaret Rutherford on her way in. And Miss Rutherford's gag guest appearance as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple is the only thing that is funny about this arch and clumsy attempt to launch Randall as another celebrated Christie character, the Belgian snooper-sleuth Hercule Poirot...
...method was to sleuth out-in a way still not fully known-the names of 58 of the super-secret Nielsen sample of 1,200 households. He mailed them questionnaires before the Channing special, asked questions about the commercials on the show, enclosed $3 with each questionnaire and promised to send the viewers another $5 each after they mailed in the completed form...
...sound foolish, but it does give the movie consistency. When evidence turns up that Ray is a rival author, the Almighty is more or less exonerated, leaving this inspirational British thriller with no suspect worth a second thought. Actor Nigel Patrick directed Nobody and also cast himself as the sleuth-priest, thereby risking double jeopardy. The devil knows...
...IPCRESS FILE. A British secret agent, played by Newcomer Michael Caine, is embroiled in Bond-like situations, though he is not at all the type who would be welcomed in Blade's-even with M. He makes an engaging sleuth nonetheless...
...fourth film based on the ad ventures of Agatha Christie's snooper-sleuth Miss Marple, Murder casts a mere shadow of the series' former stealth, and Actress Rutherford has to flesh out the fun singlehanded. After working her bit of mischief as member of a hung jury, she sallies forth to pursue her hunch that a wilted rose and a faded theater program offer irrefutable evidence that a homicide has a ham in it. While the police fumble, she marshals vast jowls behind a mouth jutted into a small downturned crescent of incontestable certainty, or inhales...