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"Agatha Christie: Poirot" The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (2000)
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2 January 2000
(Season 7, Episode 1)
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Living quietly in the small village of King's Abbot, sleuth Hercule Poirot becomes involved in the murder of successful industrialist Roger Ackroyd...
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(Episode Cast overview, first billed only)| David Suchet | ... | Hercule Poirot | |
| Philip Jackson | ... | Chief Inspector James Japp | |
| Oliver Ford Davies | ... | Dr. Sheppard | |
| Malcolm Terris | ... | Roger Ackroyd | |
| Selina Cadell | ... | Caroline Sheppard | |
| Daisy Beaumont | ... | Ursula Bourne | |
| Flora Montgomery | ... | Flora Ackroyd | |
| Nigel Cooke | ... | Geoffrey Raymond | |
| Jamie Bamber | ... | Ralph Paton | |
| Roger Frost | ... | Parker | |
| Vivien Heilbron | ... | Mrs. Ackroyd | |
| Gregor Truter | ... | Inspector Davis | |
| Rosalind Bailey | ... | Mrs. Ferrars | |
| Liz Kettle | ... | Mrs. Folliott | |
| Charles Simon | ... | Hammond |
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Continuity: In the scene where Ackroyd's butler, Parker, is drunk and staggering down the road, the car behind him stops. Visible for a brief instant is the car's license plate, COU 313. In the very next scene as the car begins its run, the license plate has changed to JHX 473.
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Hercule Poirot:
A man may labor and toil to attain a certain kind of leisure in retirement. And then find that, after all, he yearns for the old busy days, and the old occupations he had thought himself so glad to leave. I had already begun to miss the daily toil of my previous employment when...
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Read the book! It is so much better. The movie does not even begin to reflect the complexities that Christie contained in her novel. Not to mention, HUGE plot twists are treated in a mundane way and many events are altered, discarded, or invented. Also, the character development in the movie lacks what the novel can provide. In a word, it SUCKS! While I realize that this is a movie website, if you are going to make a movie based on a mystery novel, you should probably at least attempt to maintain the integrity of the original work. Otherwise, just rob the general theme, give the people new names, and pass it off as your own. This movie is the reason why my professors always told me "always read the book, never watch the movie!"