Agatha Christie: Poirot: Season 3, Episode 6 The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor
(3 Feb. 1991)
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Agatha Christie: Poirot: Season 3, Episode 6 The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor
(3 Feb. 1991)
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Ian McCulloch | ... |
Jonathan Maltravers
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Geraldine Alexander | ... |
Susan Maltravers
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Captain Black
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Anita Carey | ... |
Miss Rawlinson
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Desmond Barrit | ... |
Samuel Naughton
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Ralph Watson | ... |
Danvers
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Edward Jewesbury | ... |
Dr Bernard
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Hilary Sesta | ... |
Doctor's Receptionist
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David Lloyd | ... |
Museum Attendant
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Pat Keen | ... |
Civil Defence Organiser
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Richard Bebb | ... |
Newsreader
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Having been lured to the village of Marsden Leigh under false pretenses - the local hotel owner is unable to solve the crime in his own manuscript and so invites the detective to solve a "murder" - Poirot and Hastings are asked to look into the death of Mr. Mantravers, owner of the local manor house. The local rumor mill has it that the Marsden Manor is haunted by several ghosts and Mantravers' wife is convinced that her husband was frightened to death. In the end, Poirot initiates a clever ruse to obtain a confession from the murderer. Written by garykmcd
There are Christie's works (essentially short stories) which deal with supernatural.Some of her best novels ,although "rational", have a "horror and fantasy " side: "And then there were none" "Peril at end house" "five little pigs" ....
"Tragedy at Mardson Manor" is a delight for Christie's fans :it features a good dose of humor (the innkeeper who calls Poirot cause there are murders in his village : actually he is writing a novel),a mansion which may be haunted ,a young woman in distress,and even a man who rises from the dead ,à la "les Diaboliques" .
Poirot(David Suchet) is in top form,his interpretation of the painting is brilliant.And last but not least ,in the wax museum ,when he hears his colleagues go into raptures over a statue,he is as vain as ever ...until he realizes they're speaking of Charlie Chaplin's one.