Poirot - The Movie Collection, Set 2 (Murder on the Links / Hickory Dickory Dock / Dumb Witness / Hercule Poirot's Christmas)
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Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Starring: David Suchet, Philip Jackson, Vernon Dobtcheff, Simon Roberts, Catherine Rabett
Directed By: Andrew Grieve, Edward Bennett
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781569385524
Format: Box set
ISBN: 1569385521
Label: Acorn Media
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Acorn Media
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2002-06-04
Running Time: 412
Studio: Acorn Media
Theatrical Release Date: 1996-10-31
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Summary: Winter Movies
Comment: Arrived on time. No damage. Gave as a gift and recipient just loves them.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent
Comment: If you are interested in a by-gone era of the gentry in their English country mansions, Art Deco furnishings, dressing for dinner, and the romance of train travel the Poirot series is for you. The recreation in the details is stunning. David Suchet, the most brilliant actor has convinced me he is Hercule Poirot, the most brilliant detective.
Customer Rating:
Summary: David Suchet is Poirot and Poirot is David Suchet
Comment: There is something just so lovable about this Belgian detective and his little gray cells. What is incredible about this entire series is the attention to detail on costumes, settings and ensuring that the art-deco feel of parts of England can be recreated. I have always been a great fan of Agatha Christie and, in particular, the character of Hercule Poirot (I have found Miss Marple to be rather annoying). But David Suchet has resulted in a fan following for this character that has little to do with the original character. Each and every little flaw, trait, quirk, is played to great effect. This added to the already-flawless plots of Agatha Christie make this entire series a jewel in the crown.
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Summary: Mind stimulating overall, but could do without some immoral content
Comment: I've seen three of the four in the set so far. The set arrived very quickly. The three that I've watched so far are "Dumb Witness", "Hickory Dickory Dock", and "Hercule Poirot's Christmas." I found all of the films to be mentally stimulating overall. They did keep me guessing to the end, and I think that that is the point of the mystery genre. Good job on that. I did find that both "Hickory Dickory Dock" and "Hercule Poirot's Christmas" had a scene where there was either unclean language/humor or characters that were almost nude (suggestably before or after marital relations.) I would love to have young children over to watch these films, but I would not want them exposed to such content. I suppose this is considered being too straightlaced in our modern sex-crazed culture, but there must be lines drawn somewhere.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best of Poirot
Comment: I am an avid Poirot fan - David Suchet is perfection! This DVD is the best of the best, epecially Dumb Witness. If you love the Poirot mysteries as much as I do, then you will have to have this DVD. If you are a novice, this would be a great way to start.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Winter Movies
Comment: Arrived on time. No damage. Gave as a gift and recipient just loves them.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent
Comment: If you are interested in a by-gone era of the gentry in their English country mansions, Art Deco furnishings, dressing for dinner, and the romance of train travel the Poirot series is for you. The recreation in the details is stunning. David Suchet, the most brilliant actor has convinced me he is Hercule Poirot, the most brilliant detective.
Customer Rating:
Summary: David Suchet is Poirot and Poirot is David Suchet
Comment: There is something just so lovable about this Belgian detective and his little gray cells. What is incredible about this entire series is the attention to detail on costumes, settings and ensuring that the art-deco feel of parts of England can be recreated. I have always been a great fan of Agatha Christie and, in particular, the character of Hercule Poirot (I have found Miss Marple to be rather annoying). But David Suchet has resulted in a fan following for this character that has little to do with the original character. Each and every little flaw, trait, quirk, is played to great effect. This added to the already-flawless plots of Agatha Christie make this entire series a jewel in the crown.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Mind stimulating overall, but could do without some immoral content
Comment: I've seen three of the four in the set so far. The set arrived very quickly. The three that I've watched so far are "Dumb Witness", "Hickory Dickory Dock", and "Hercule Poirot's Christmas." I found all of the films to be mentally stimulating overall. They did keep me guessing to the end, and I think that that is the point of the mystery genre. Good job on that. I did find that both "Hickory Dickory Dock" and "Hercule Poirot's Christmas" had a scene where there was either unclean language/humor or characters that were almost nude (suggestably before or after marital relations.) I would love to have young children over to watch these films, but I would not want them exposed to such content. I suppose this is considered being too straightlaced in our modern sex-crazed culture, but there must be lines drawn somewhere.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best of Poirot
Comment: I am an avid Poirot fan - David Suchet is perfection! This DVD is the best of the best, epecially Dumb Witness. If you love the Poirot mysteries as much as I do, then you will have to have this DVD. If you are a novice, this would be a great way to start.
Supersleuth Hercule Poirot bets his beloved mustache that he can solve a murder more quickly than a truculent French detective in this excellent collection of four movies based on Agatha Christie mysteries. The bet takes place in Murder on the Links; a body found on a golf course points to a crime committed years before--but the real question is, has Poirot's good friend Captain Hastings (Hugh Fraser) found true love? Similarly, though the twisty plot of Hickory Dickory Dock revolves around diamond smuggling and a death in a student hostel, for many fans it's the story in which Poirot's ever-precise secretary Miss Lemon (Pauline Moran, nowhere near as ugly as Christie's description of the character) makes a rare mistake. In Dumb Witness, a fox terrier gives Poirot the final insight to catch the killer of a wealthy woman, cutting through the seance-crazed antics of a pair of eccentric old sisters. But perhaps the best of the quartet is Hercule Poirot's Christmas, featuring a sexy Spanish spitfire, a vengeful marked woman, and one of the most unsavory victims in all of Christie's work. Through it all, fastidious and scrupulously observant, Poirot sifts through the slippery details and comes to his unerring conclusion. As the Belgian detective, David Suchet has taken a character who could easily be a cartoon or a cardboard cutout and made him three-dimensional and sympathetic. One starts to wonder, what is his home life like? Does he grow lonely? Such musings are the mark of a truly vivid performance; Suchet never fails to drive each movie forward, step by irrevocable step. (The extras are meager; filmographies, sketchy biographies, and odd bits of trivia.) --Bret Fetzer
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