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Murder in Mesopotamia

  • Episode aired Jul 8, 2001
  • TV-14TV-14
  • 1h 38m
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7.4/10
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Poirot (1989)
AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT: Murder in Mesopotamia
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While Poirot is on holiday in Iraq, the wife of the head scientist at an archaeological dig confides to him that she is the target of threatening letters.While Poirot is on holiday in Iraq, the wife of the head scientist at an archaeological dig confides to him that she is the target of threatening letters.While Poirot is on holiday in Iraq, the wife of the head scientist at an archaeological dig confides to him that she is the target of threatening letters.
IMDb RATING
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2.1K
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    • Tom Clegg
    • Agatha Christie(based on the novel by)
    • Clive Exton(dramatized by)
  • Stars
    • David Suchet
    • Hugh Fraser
    • Ron Berglas
    • Tom Clegg
    • Agatha Christie(based on the novel by)
    • Clive Exton(dramatized by)
  • Stars
    • David Suchet
    • Hugh Fraser
    • Ron Berglas
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    • 20User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
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    AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT: Murder in Mesopotamia
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    Ron Berglas and David Suchet in Poirot (1989)
    Pandora Clifford in Poirot (1989)
    Pandora Clifford in Poirot (1989)
    Pandora Clifford in Poirot (1989)
    Barbara Barnes in Poirot (1989)
    Barbara Barnes in Poirot (1989)
    Barbara Barnes in Poirot (1989)
    Barbara Barnes in Poirot (1989)
    Barbara Barnes in Poirot (1989)
    Hugh Fraser, Iain Mitchell, David Suchet, Pandora Clifford, and Georgina Sowerby in Poirot (1989)
    Hugh Fraser and David Suchet in Poirot (1989)
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    David Suchet
    David Suchet
    • Hercule Poirot
    Hugh Fraser
    Hugh Fraser
    • Hastings
    Ron Berglas
    Ron Berglas
    • Dr. Leidner
    Barbara Barnes
    • Mrs. Leidner
    Dinah Stabb
    Dinah Stabb
    • Anne Johnson
    Georgina Sowerby
    • Amy Leatheran
    Jeremy Turner-Welch
    • Bill Coleman
    Pandora Clifford
    Pandora Clifford
    • Sheila Maitland
    Christopher Hunter
    Christopher Hunter
    • Father Lavigny
    Christopher Bowen
    Christopher Bowen
    • Richard Carey
    Iain Mitchell
    Iain Mitchell
    • Superintendent Maitland
    Alexi Kaye Campbell
    • Joseph Mercado
    Deborah Poplett
    Deborah Poplett
    • Mrs. Mercado
    Kamel Touati
    Kamel Touati
    • Squat Man
    Hichem Rostom
    Hichem Rostom
    • Hotel Receptionist
    Zoubeir Bornaz
    • Police Sergeant
    Dejeb Magri
    • Murdered Man
    • (as Rejeb Magri)
    Hammadi Maaroufi
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      • Tom Clegg
      • Agatha Christie(based on the novel by)
      • Clive Exton(dramatized by)
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    • Trivia
      In the Agatha Christie novel "Murder in Mesopotamia", Captain Hastings does not appear. In this adaptation, he appears and is related to William Coleman.
    • Quotes

      Bill Coleman: [after going over a bump while driving his jeep at high speed through the desert] Whoops!

      Hercule Poirot: [groaning with discomfort] Unh!

      Bill Coleman: That was a good one!

      Hastings: [with annoyance] We don't have to get there in five minutes, you know!

      Bill Coleman: That's half the fun. You're growing old, Ucle Arthur.

      Hercule Poirot: Mr. Coleman, I myself have aged ten years since entering this auto mobile.

    • Crazy credits
      Thanks to the Archeological Site of Oudhna.

    User reviews20

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    You want art? - Don't watch TV
    After 12 years of playing Poirot, David Suchet has the part off pat, and it is hard to imagine anyone doing it better. This 2000 TV film is an adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1936 novel of the same name and the location – an archaeological dig in Mesopotamia – and is made the more authentic by Christie's first hand experience with her husband, archaeologist Max Mallowan. Despite the exotic locale however the story is the familiar country house murder mystery in which by observation and deduction the great detective finds the culprit without a lot of help from his sidekick, the jolly Hastings (Hugh Fraser) or anybody else.

    What is quite striking about this story as filmed is the utter flatness of all the other characters. To some extent this is a product of the fact that none of the actors is well known, but the script doesn't help either. They are simply boring (the Arabs are non-starters). Their function is to listen to Poriot, provide him with information or disinformation and to die when necessary. Actually one of the victims (Ms Leidner) has an interesting past but she is too pathetic to hold our sympathy. Perhaps the producers were trying to save money on salaries but the cast are not a prepossessing lot.

    On the other hand the production values (for a TV movie) aren't bad and much of the film was shot in Tunisia around a real `dig'. (Iraq, alas, was not available). Hercule Poirot, always immaculately dressed and amusingly fussy, can always hold our attention even if he is to a large extent the puppetmaster. Although he makes mistakes along the way we can be assured the characters will fit his theories in the end.

    Lousy art but good television.
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    • Release date
      • July 8, 2001 (United States)
      • United Kingdom
      • Official site
      • Official Website - SonyLIV
      • English
      • Arabic
    • Filming locations
      • Oudhna, Tunisia
    • Production companies
      • Carnival Film & Television
      • A+E Networks
      • Chorion
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    • 1 hour 38 minutes
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