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The Yellow Iris ()

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  • Season 5
  • Episode 3
A man celebrates the two-year anniversary of his wife's sudden death by cyanide while in Argentina - a death which Poirot himself had witnessed, but could not solve at the time.
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Hercule Poirot
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Captain Hastings
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Miss Lemon
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Barton Russell
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Anthony Chapell
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Pauline Wetherby
Yolanda Vazquez ...
Lola (as Yolanda Vasquez)
Robin McCaffrey ...
Iris Russell
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Stephen Carter
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Luigi
Stefan Gryff ...
General Pereira
Arturo Venegas ...
Hotel Receptionist
Leonard Maguire ...
Mr. Grove
Carol Kenyon ...
Singer
Tracy Miller ...
Singer

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Peter Barber-Fleming ... (as Peter Barber Fleming)

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Anthony Horowitz ... (dramatized by)
 
Agatha Christie ... (short story "Yellow Iris") (uncredited)

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Brian Eastman ... producer
Nick Elliott ... executive producer
Dominic Fulford ... associate producer

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Christopher Gunning

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Norman G. Langley ... director of photography (as Norman Langley)

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Chris Wimble

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Christian Wheeler ... assistant editor

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Kate Day
Rebecca Howard

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Tim Hutchinson

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Mark Raggett

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Desmond Crowe

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Barbara Kronig

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Kate Bower ... makeup artist
Janis Gould ... makeup supervisor
Patricia Kirkman ... makeup artist

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Guy Tannahill ... production manager

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Peter Bennett ... assistant director
Dominic Fysh ... assistant director
Gerry Toomey ... assistant director

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Alan Booth ... construction manager
Mickey Lennon ... property master (as Micky Lennon)
Mike Smith ... production buyer
Gill Andrae-Reid ... artist (uncredited)

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Paul Botham ... boom operator
Matthew Desorgher ... sound assistant
Alan Killick ... dubbing
Peter Lennard ... dubbing
Sandy MacRae ... sound recordist
Rupert Scrivener ... dubbing

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Steve Alcorn ... camera operator (as Steven Alcorn)
Ray Cooper ... clapper/loader
John Etherington ... grip
Vince Goddard ... gaffer
Danny Shelmerdine ... focus puller

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Jill Avery ... wardrobe
Dougie Hawkes ... costumer
Lisa Johnson ... wardrobe
Neil Sweetmore ... wardrobe
Vernon White ... wardrobe

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Jeremy Johns ... locations
Jeremy Oldfield ... locations

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Neil Richardson ... composer: additional music & lyrics
Allen Walley ... musician: double bass (uncredited)

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Josie Fulford ... script supervisor

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Mark White ... transportation
Mark Beeton ... unit driver (uncredited)

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John Beharrell ... accounts
Penelope Forrester ... accounts
Pat Gavin ... titles
Leila Kirkpatrick ... production coordinator
Natasha Wellesley ... production coordinator
Domini Winter ... choreographer
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Plot Summary

Hercule Poirot has a rare opportunity when he gets a second chance to solve a murder circumstance prevented him from solving two years before. On his way to visit Capt. Hastings in the Argentine, Poirot had stopped in Buenos Aires. While out for dinner, a young woman named Iris Russell was poisoned. The police found cyanide in her purse and ruled her death to be suicide, something her husband Barton Russell refuses to accept. When Poirot agrees with him and raises objections to the hasty police verdict, he is quickly ordered deported. Now, two years later, Russell Barton is hosting a dinner in London on the anniversary of his wife's death with everyone who was present invited to the event. This time, Poirot has no intention of letting the killer get away. Written by garykmcd

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  • The Yellow Iris (United Kingdom)
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  • 50 min
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Trivia While in Buenos Aires, Poirot is seen reading a newspaper called "La Nación". A newspaper by that name actually existed in the 1930's when this story is set and is still printed today. Also the font used to print the name of the newspaper on top of the pages seems to be the same as in the real newspaper. See more »
Goofs During Poirot's visit to Buenos Aires (which takes place in 1934), there is a military coup which is said to depose Argentine President Yrigoyen. Hipolito Yrigoyen was indeed deposed by the military, but the coup took place on Sept. 6, 1930, not in 1934. See more »
Movie Connections Version of Sparkling Cyanide (1983). See more »
Quotes Captain Hastings: Is there *anything* in the English cuisine that you like, Poirot?
Hercule Poirot: The English they do not have a cuisine, my friend, they have only the food.
Captain Hastings: Well, that's a bit harsh, i...
Hercule Poirot: Like the meat, overcooked, the vegetables too soft, the cheese inedible. And the day the English create their own wines is the day I return home to Belgium.
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