Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Set 6
Four more mysteries featuring Hercule Poirot, the meticulously moustached Belgian detective who relies on his little grey cells to solve the most daunting of crimes. Read more
| Starring | David Suchet |
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| Director | Hettie Macdonald, Maurice Phillips, Sarah Hardin, Sarah Harding |
| Genres | Drama, Thriller |
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Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Set 6
Four more mysteries featuring Hercule Poirot, the meticulously moustached Belgian detective who relies on his little grey cells to solve the most daunting of crimes.
| Starring | David Suchet |
|---|---|
| Director | Hettie Macdonald, Maurice Phillips, Sarah Hardin, Sarah Harding |
| Studio | ITV DVD |
| Run time | DVD: 6 hrs 14 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 10 Apr 2006 |
| Format | DVD |
Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Set 6 (4 discs)
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It Works
If you prefer the ‘stick-to-the-script’ Poirot’s where Hastings and Miss Lemon all work together to solve a shocking crime, then perhaps the new slightly more contemporary ideas (such as abortion and homosexuality that Christie didn’t write about) isn’t for you. If, however, you don’t mind a slightly racier screenplay with characters celebrating their diversities galore, then watch-on.
Taken At The Flood (the ‘film’ not the book) is about a young actress, Rosaleen Cloade, who found herself widowed after her rich (and now dead) husband, Gordon, was killed along with a number of other people in a gas explosion in their flat. Only Rosaleen and her brother, the somewhat creepy David Hunter, managed to survive the blast relatively unscathed due to their having been down in the cellar choosing wine.
Now painfully rich, the young widow is asked by various family members to continue giving them the financial handout that Gordon (the husband) used to do. However, due to that creepy brother, David Hunter, the fiscally screwed family can’t get their hands on any of it. Naturally cheesed off and skint, the Cloades decide to bring in good ol’ Poirot to investigate the rumour that Rosaleen’s first husband, Robert Underhay, who mysteriously disappeared into the jungle and was presumed dead a few years before, might not be dead at all. Should this be true, she would be pronounced a bigamist and so would get none of Gordon’s money, which instead would be presumably spread between them thus ending their financial woes.
In conclusion, if you’re a Christie fanatic and are hoping to see the book chapter-by-chapter, don’t bother – you’ll just upset yourself. But, if, on the other hand, you enjoy the slightly eccentric Belgian detective and post-wartime England settings, then I highly recommend this prelude to the new Christie’s that pack a little more incest with their murders, and provide a grittier slant on the murder mystery genre. -
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The Blue Train
The Blue Train exemplifies some of the better qualities of the Poirot adaptations and shows how the Poirot series is providing itself with a cult following. Lately the Poirot adaptations have had a tendancy to become darker, with varying degrees of sucess but The Blue Train is a well made, sustainable piece of television which is satisfying and funny. The quality of the actors who are now attracted to appear in the Christie adaptations is demonstrated by a nice performance from Elliott Gould as a wealthy American tycoon and a very funny over-the-top appearance by Lindsey Duncan as an impoverished British ex-pat with a (much) younger husband. The younger characters are all played very sympathetically and there's a nicely creepy character turn at the end when the murderer is revealed. And Poirot reveals his more vulnerable side. It's not the best Poirot adaptation, but as the special features tell us, Christie didn't think it was her best book either! It's a solid, undemanding, fun piece of escapism which allows us to soak up the exotic locations, the wonderful costumes and some excellent cameo performances by some high-calibre actors.
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