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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

  • Episode aired Jan 2, 2000
  • TV-14
  • 1h 39m
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Malcolm Terris in Poirot (1989)
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Poirot comes out of retirement when his industrialist friend is brutally murdered a short while after a local widow who was suspected of killing her husband commits suicide.Poirot comes out of retirement when his industrialist friend is brutally murdered a short while after a local widow who was suspected of killing her husband commits suicide.Poirot comes out of retirement when his industrialist friend is brutally murdered a short while after a local widow who was suspected of killing her husband commits suicide.

  • Director
    • Andrew Grieve
  • Writers
    • Agatha Christie
    • Clive Exton
  • Stars
    • David Suchet
    • Philip Jackson
    • Oliver Ford Davies
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.3/10
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    • Director
      • Andrew Grieve
    • Writers
      • Agatha Christie
      • Clive Exton
    • Stars
      • David Suchet
      • Philip Jackson
      • Oliver Ford Davies
    • 35User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    David Suchet
    David Suchet
    • Hercule Poirot
    Philip Jackson
    Philip Jackson
    • Chief Inspector Japp
    Oliver Ford Davies
    Oliver Ford Davies
    • Dr. Sheppard
    Malcolm Terris
    Malcolm Terris
    • Roger Ackroyd
    Selina Cadell
    Selina Cadell
    • Caroline Sheppard
    Daisy Beaumont
    Daisy Beaumont
    • Ursula Bourne
    Flora Montgomery
    • Flora Ackroyd
    Nigel Cooke
    • Geoffrey Raymond
    Jamie Bamber
    Jamie Bamber
    • Ralph Paton
    Roger Frost
    Roger Frost
    • Parker
    Vivien Heilbron
    Vivien Heilbron
    • Mrs. Ackroyd
    Gregor Truter
    Gregor Truter
    • Inspector Davis
    Rosalind Bailey
    • Mrs. Ferrars
    Liz Kettle
    • Mrs. Folliott
    Charles Simon
    • Hammond
    Chas Early
    • Constable Jones
    • (as Charles Early)
    Graham Chinn
    • Landlord
    Clive Brunt
    Clive Brunt
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      • Andrew Grieve
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      • Agatha Christie
      • Clive Exton
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    • Trivia
      When the doctor's sister is seen in the opening scenes she has on a blouse with intricate cutwork near the neck. The blouse is cream color and the cutwork a dark brown. The work is so beautiful it's memorable. In another Christie/Suchet episode, Cat Among the Pigeons, the headmistress of the school is shown wearing the same blouse.
    • Goofs
      In the scene where Ackroyd's butler, Parker, is drunk and staggering down the road, the car behind him stops. Visible for a brief instant is the car's license plate, COU 313. In the very next scene as the car begins its run, the license plate has changed to JHX 473.
    • Quotes

      [Last lines]

      Hercule Poirot: I thought I could escape the wickedness of the city by moving to the country. The fields that are green, the singing of the birds, the faces, smiling and friendly. Huh! The fields that are green are the secret burial places of murders most hideous. The birds sing only briefly before some idiot in tweed shoots them. And the faces all smiling and friendly, what do they conceal?

    • Connections
      Referenced in Murder on the Orient Express (2001)

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    The Murder of "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"
    I shan't talk about the plot, because that would ruin it.

    Agatha Christie readers could not have possibly have imagined that the adaptation would be this poor. It takes one of Agatha Christie's best novels, and butchers the story, removes half the suspects. It then inserts periods of boring introspection by the detective as he visits his old flat in Whitehaven Mansions.

    Moreover, in the novel, most of the characters had some redeeming qualities. All humanity seems to have been stripped out of them in this adaptation. As a result, viewers who have not read the book would probably care even less who the murderer turns out to be.

    Fans always knew that this novel would be one of the hardest to adapt, because there is relatively more narrative, and there is less banter than in the Poirot-Hastings stories such as the ABC murders. However, the recent excellent adaptation of Sad Cypress showed that it is possible to convert the moodier, less conversational mysteries to the screen.

    A film that is inadequate for first-time viewers and bookreaders alike.
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    • Jan 29, 2004

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    • The building used as the Ackroyd Chemical factory has been used in at least one other detective programme. What is the building, and where else has it been used?

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    • Release date
      • January 2, 2000 (United Kingdom)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
    • Official sites
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    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • Castle Combe, Wiltshire, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • Carnival Film & Television
      • A+E Networks
      • Agatha Christie
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 39 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 16 : 9

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