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"Agatha Christie: Poirot" The ABC Murders (1992)



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8.3/10   202 votes
Director:
Writers:
Clive Exton (dramatisation) and
Agatha Christie (novel)
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Original Air Date:
5 January 1992 (Season 4, Episode 1)
Plot:
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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Runtime:
103 min | UK:120 min | 102 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
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. more
Goofs:
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. more
Quotes:
Chief Inspector Japp: Does a madman have any motive? more
Movie Connections:
Version of The Alphabet Murders (1965) more

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9 out of 10 people found the following comment useful.
Well done, well acted, 29 January 2006
Author: pawebster from England

The book is a good one and it has been well dramatized here. Donald Sumpter is excellent as the travelling salesman, Cust.

It's unlike other Christies in that most of the victims are not wealthy or aristocratic. The scenes in the Andover shop and at Bexhill are (perhaps unintentionally) touching. The deaths are really sad -- which is almost never the case in a Christie book, where murder is only a chance for an interesting puzzle and the victim is quite often a nasty tyrant whom almost everyone wants dead. When Hastings is moved by the scene in Andover, Poirot brushes his comments aside, saying they must not succumb to sentimentality.

Entertaining. Recommended.

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