Poirot - The New Mysteries Collection (Death on the Nile / Sad Cypress / The Hollow / Five Little Pigs)


: Poirot - The New Mysteries Collection (Death on the Nile / Sad Cypress / The Hollow / Five Little Pigs)

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: A&E
EAN: 9780767076791
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0767076796
Label: A&E Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 StereoItalianOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
MPN: AAED71727D
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 22, 2005
Running Time: 400 minutes
Studio: A&E Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 26, 2004

 


 


 


 

Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 02/22/2005

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


Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Hercule Poirot Mysteries
We have enjoyed the Hercule Poirot mysteries for a while now and we needed to add to our collection and so I decided to buy these because we enjoyed them a lot and we seldom get tired of seeing them. He always keeps you guessing. If you like mysteries you would enjoy these mysteries.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - An excellent collection
Agatha Christie has a well deserved reputation as one of the world's most popular authors, and her Hercule Poirot stories played by David Suchett are absolutely marvelous. I can recall four of the five mysteries in this series, and they're all quite good. If you like Poirot, you can't go wrong with this excellent set.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - 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.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Winter Movies
Arrived on time. No damage. Gave as a gift and recipient just loves them.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - 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



 

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