Description: This set will contain the following four Poirot movies (A&E September 2004 premieres): Death on the Nile, Sad Cypress, The Hollow, Five Little Pigs
Amazon.com: Portly, mincing, gracious, and unrelenting, Hercule Poirot rivals Sherlock Holmes as the greatest sleuth of the English murder mystery genre--a form as strict as a sonnet that's part logic puzzle, part magician's misdirection, of which Agatha Christie remains the undisputed queen. The New Mysteries Collection pulls together TV-movie adaptations of four Poirot novels, each a compendium of eccentric characters, intricate plotting, sleek storytelling, and sprinklings of wit (such as a dotty matriarch's declaration, "Murder is a very awkward thing--it upsets the servants so").
Death on the Nile sets an entire boatful of suspicious character afloat in Egypt, where Poirot's vacation is disrupted by a splash in the night, falling rock, missing pearls, three murders, and a boozing gargoyle named Salome Otterbourne. The plot is one of Christie's more preposterous, yet also one of her most popular. Sad Cypress opens with a murderess on trial, then flashes back to young lovers, a wealthy but stricken dowager, a spiteful anonymous letter, and a pretty young blonde. A wonderfully creepy dream haunts Poirot as he struggles to redeem the wrongly convicted killer. In The Hollow, Poirot's vacation in the English countryside gets disrupted by a philandering doctor apparently shot by his adoring wife, his blood trickling into a swimming pool clotted with leaves. But the best of the lot is Five Little Pigs, a story told almost entirely in flashback, as a young woman hires Poirot to clear her mother, who was convicted of murdering her father. Not only are the clues deftly planted and the solution cunningly worked out, it's one of the rare mysteries that inspires a genuine sorrow for its characters.
Scattered throughout are a wealth of recognizable faces, though not many recognizable names--among the better known are James Fox (The Remains of the Day), Edward Fox (The Day of the Jackal), Paul McGann (Withnail and I), Sarah Miles (White Mischief), Lysette Anthony (Husbands and Wives), and David Soul (Starsky & Hutch!). But it's David Suchet as Poirot who keeps everything in motion, his beady eyes glittering under heavy lids, constantly tending to one of the most ridiculous mustaches in literature. Poirot has been played by such stars as Peter Ustinov and Albert Finney, but Suchet has made the fastidious Belgian detective his own. He's simply magnifique. --Bret Fetzer
Perfect Poirot,- perpetually personifying perspicacity. David Suchet is the quintessential Poirot. It will be a long, long time before anyone will again be able to play the role convincingly, after the superlative portrayal of the splendid Belgium Detective dreamed up by Agatha Christie.
To see Suchet as Poirot, is to believe the character has come alive before your very eyes. None could give the Christie stories more credence, than David Suchet - a consummate actor.
Winter Movies Arrived on time. No damage. Gave as a gift and recipient just loves them.
ADORE POIROT I get the biggest kick out of David Suchet's talent and how he has successfully created this whole personality of Poriot. I have been lucky enough to see him perform on the London stage several times & he amazes me. As a result, I just had to have all of the DVD's of this series & I have traveled to some of the locations which are romantized.....escape into the life our grandparents lived & then add a little murder mystery-what more can you ask for!!! ha
As good as TV gets This DVD set contains 2 superb movies (Five Little Pigs, Sad Cypress), 1 very good one (The Hollow), and 1 fair (Death on the Nile). Hastings, Japp and Miss Lemon are missing, but not really missed: their lighthearted antics would be at odds with the moving, sometimes tragic tales being told here. The series loses something in fun but gains a lot more in depth and lasting impact. And Suchet makes Poirot more human and less cartoonishly "eccentric" than before. Get this set, it's a must-have for any Agatha Christie / Poirot buff.
Death on the Nile, Five Little Pigs, Sad Cypress, and etc. I enjoyed Poirot and the mysteries were certainly well done, however, I want the other characters brought back. Japp, Miss Lemon, Hastings, all contributed to fleshing out the story in one way or another. Please bring them back, I miss them. David Suchet has broad shoulders but he needs a supporting cast. Ed Evans
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