Agatha Christie's Poirot [videorecording] : the movie collection / a Carnaval Films production in association with LWTP, an LWT programme for ITV ; producer, Brian Eastman ; dramatized by William Humble, Clive Exton ; directors, Andrew Grieve, Stephen Whittaker, Ross Devenish, Renny Rye.
Format:
[videorecording] :
Publisher:
Acorn Media,
Copyright Date:
c2001
Description:
5 videodiscs (103 min. each) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (53 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran. Originally produced as television movies in 1990 and 1992. Based on the novels by Agatha Christie. Includes The Poirot casebook : a celebration of the classic TV mystery. Special features: interactive menus; scene index; biographies of Agatha Christie and David Suchet; Poirot trivia; cast filmographies; Agatha Christie materials.
Contents:
ABC murders (1992) -- Death in the clouds (1992) -- Mysterious affair at Styles (1990) -- One, two, buckle my shoe (1992) -- Peril at End House (1990).
Summary:
Belgium sleuth Hercule Poirot untangles a baffling mystery of a murderer who announces his next victims through a series of letters each addressed to the detective himself. After a stay at the Ritz in Paris, Poirot is flying home to London when a fellow passenger succumbs mysteriously. A ruthless blackmailer is killed on board a plane full of likely suspects. Unfortunately for the culprit, Belgium sleuth Hercule Poirot is also on board. While recovering from a war wound, Hastings meets Poirot and solve the murder at the Styles. Poirot must solve the murder of his dentist where a broken shoe buckle becomes the key to solving the crime. While staying at End House in Cornwall, Poirot must solve the mysterious attempts to kill Nick Buckley.
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