![]() ![]() The various production companies never followed Agatha’s own timeline. With a thoughtful script, any of the remaining, unfilmed novels (or the criminally neglected short story “The Lemesurier Inheritance”) could have worked. ![]() ![]() The world still awaits a decent filmed version of that novel.Īfter rebooting the series with Roger Ackroyd, the producers next chose to film - for mysterious reasons - Lord Edgware Dies. I’m ignoring the travesty of the first movie bringing back Poirot in 2000: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Read more of Teresa’s Agatha Christie movie reviews at Peschel Press.Īlso, follow Teresa’s discussion of these movies on her podcast.ĭespite the lengthy hiatus between the first end of the Poirot TV series in 1996 and the start of sporadic movies in 2000, cast, script, director, settings, and music all came together here as though they’d never been separated by the vagaries of TV ratings and running out of money. ![]() Otherwise, this movie fired on all cylinders with very few missteps. I’d have given it another half-dagger but with no subtitles, I couldn’t understand some of the witty banter. Teresa reviews “Lord Edgware Dies” (2000) and finds it’s the best of the three versions, with some reservations.Įvents are rearranged, Jane Wilkinson impersonates Lady Macbeth, a thieving butler leads our gang on a fatal chase, but almost everything important is there. ![]()
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