"Agatha Christie: Poirot" Taken at the Flood (2006)

User Rating:

7.2/10   

Director:

Andy Wilson

Writers:

Agatha Christie (novel)
Guy Andrews (screenplay)

TV Series:

"Agatha Christie: Poirot" (1989)

Original Air Date:

2 April 2006 (Season 10, Episode 4)

Genre:

Drama | Mystery | Crime | Thriller

Plot:

Hercule Poirot finds himself trying to solve the mystery of the Cloade family. Rosaleen is the young...

Plot Keywords:

Widow | Hercule Poirot | Shakespearean Quote | Brother Sister Relationship | Suspect

Cast

David Suchet	...	Hercule Poirot
Jenny Agutter	...	Adela Marchmont
Patrick Baladi	...	Rowley Cloade
Eva Birthistle	...	Rosaleen / Eileen
Elliot Cowan	...	David Hunter
Amanda Douge	...	Lynn Marchmont
Penny Downie	...	Frances Cloade
Richard Durden	...	Pebmarsh
Claire Hackett	...	Beatrice Lippincott
Richard Hope	...	Supt. Harold Spence
Celia Imrie	...	'Aunt' Kathy Cloade
Nicholas Le Prevost	...	Major James Porter
Tim Pigott-Smith	...	Dr. Lionel Cloade
Elizabeth Spriggs	...	Mrs. Leadbetter
Pip Torrens	...	Jeremy Cloade

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Chilworth Manor, Chilworth, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK

Company:

A&E Television Networks

Trivia:

The title is from the words of Brutus in William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar", which Poirot (in the novel) quotes: "There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to Fortune". (Poirot is explaining "it is very Shakespearian".)

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Poirot is at the inn examining the murder scene, the "dead" body can be seen breathing.

Quotes:

Hercule Poirot: This woman in the scarf, Madame: she was up the stairs or down?
Mrs. Leadbetter: She was scuttling down, having leeched the vital juices from your customer in number three.

I agree with Nikolas Pontikos

I have just seen "Taken at the Flood" on DVD. I agree that those episodes produced after Japp, Hastings and Lemon were no longer in the story line are not near as entertaining. Poirot is portrayed as almost a different character. He is more harsh and sometimes rude. This is not the Poirot of old. One thing I have noticed about these last four is the transition from one scene to another, especially the scene changes at obvious "commercial breaks". It seems that the episode is so poorly edited that we are missing parts of the presentation. It is as though these DVD's contain copies of the same ones edited for television. If this true, we seem to be cheated. One more thing, The cast shown on IMDb for "Taken at the Flood" includes Hugh Fraser as Hastings and Philip Jackson as Japp. My wife and were excited to see this but alas, they were nowhere to be found in the episode.