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"Agatha Christie: Poirot" The ABC Murders (1992)
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5 January 1992
(Season 4, Episode 1)
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Poirot receives clues and taunting letters from a serial killer who appears to choose his random victims and crime scenes alphabetically. full summary | add synopsis
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A top notch and perfectly thrilling episode
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(Episode Cast overview, first billed only)| David Suchet | ... | Hercule Poirot | |
| Hugh Fraser | ... | Captain Arthur Hastings | |
| Philip Jackson | ... | Chief Inspector James Japp | |
| Donald Sumpter | ... | Alexander Bonaparte Cust | |
| Donald Douglas | ... | Franklin Clarke | |
| Nicholas Farrell | ... | Donald Fraser | |
| Pippa Guard | ... | Megan Barnard | |
| Cathryn Bradshaw | ... | Mary Drower | |
| Nina Marc | ... | Thora Grey | |
| David McAllister | ... | Inspector Glen (as David McAlister) | |
| Vivienne Burgess | ... | Lady Clarke | |
| Ann Windsor | ... | Miss Merrion | |
| Michael Mellinger | ... | Franz Ascher | |
| Miranda Forbes | ... | Mrs. Turton | |
| Peter Penry-Jones | ... | Superintendent Carter |
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103 min | UK:120 min | 102 min
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The action music from the contemporary film showing at the cinema in Doncaster is also featured in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), for the scene where Sir Robin encounters the three-headed knight. The piece is 'Desperate Moment' by Kenneth Essex.
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Continuity: The St Leger scenes are a clever combination of newly-shot footage and archive material. However in the archive footage, the jockey of horse number 8 wears chocolate and blue hoops, whilst in the newer footage he wears red and green.
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Chief Inspector Japp:
Does a madman have any motive?
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Features Number Seventeen (1932)
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I love episodes like Sad Cypress, Five Little Pigs and Peril At End House, but The ABC Murders deserves to be up there with the best of them. It was a near-perfect, top notch and thrilling episode. There are one or two slow moments, and before I realised that there was half an hour left I had the impression as I haven't read the book that I had been told too much, but these are the only problems I had with it. The plot is complicated with plenty of surprises, but is well constructed and well explained. The adaptation looks splendid, not in a sumptuous visual style like say Sad Cypress but in a dark haunting visual style like something like Hickory Dickory Dock. The music is enough to make the hairs stand up on your neck, it certainly did that to mine. The acting from all involved is exceptional, whilst David Suchet gives an impeccable performance as always as Poirot, it is Donald Sumpter who walks away with the acting honours in one of the best supporting performances in the history of the Poirot run. It is considered as one of Suchet's favourite Poirots, and you know what, it is easy to see why. It is superb. 9/10 Bethany Cox