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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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Well done, well acted
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Cast
(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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Version of The Alphabet Murders (1965)
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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.