Murder, He Says is a 1945 American black comedy horror film directed by George Marshall and starring Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker and Marjorie Main.

As matriarch of the clan Mamie insists that Peter, to escape death at the hands of Mert or Bert, pretend to be the boyfriend of jailed Bonnie Fleagle in order to gain the confidence of her dying grandmother (Mabel Paige).

Grandma Fleagle has hidden $70,000 stolen by Bonnie and her now-executed father, but refuses to divulge where to her unwanted relations for a very good reason: she tells Pete that she has been poisoned by them.

In his May 19, 1945 review, New Yorker critic Wolcott Gibbs gave the film a lukewarm review: "Though essentially a demonstration of how cleverly thirty minutes of entertainment can be stretched out into ninety minutes of tedium, just by repeating everything three times, the picture was rather better than most of its species... "All these wayward types are looking for a $70,000 bankroll said to have been concealed around the premises by a female cousin, at the moment supposed to be doing a little stretch for armed robbery...From here on things get more complex.

"[2] In his August 13, 2016 retrospective, Mountain Xpress critic Ken Hanke rated it 4/5 stars, with a more positive review: "One of those movies that never becomes one of the 'great' comedies, but it's sufficiently entertaining and funny that it ought to be better known."

This is the kind of slick fun that studios turned out with pleasing regularity in the 1940s — unassuming, but intelligently crafted nonsense meant to offer nothing more than 90 minutes of entertainment.” “Every film book that mentions it tends to rave over it — perhaps too much — but it’s rarely revived.