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Stars: David Suchet; Release Date: June 04, 2002
Four feature-length POIROT specials, made for cable television, are included in this collector's set. Set in the 1930s, the series tracks the investigative travails of a loveable Belgian sleuth (played by David Suchet.) The four movies included are: DUMB WITNESS, HERCULE POIROT'S CHRISTMAS, HICKORY DICKORY DOCK, and MURDER ON THE LINKS.
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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
DETECTIVE EXTRAORDINARE! The incomparable HERCULE POIROT cracks his most challenging cases in four movie-length episodes from the popular TV series. As portrayed by DAVID SUCHET in this acclaimed British production, Agatha Christie’s brilliant Belgian sleuth became the most watched detective in the history of the PBS Mystery! series and a hit all over again on A&E. Set in and around elegant, upper-crust 1930s London. DUMB WITNESS — Poirot confronts a case where the only witness is the victim’s fox terrier. HERCULE POIROT’S CHRISTMAS — Choosing work over a cold flat, Poirot spends Christmas in a picturesque village solving a baffling mystery. HICKORY DICKORY DOCK — When a killer stalks a London student hostel run by Miss Lemon’s sister, Poirot races against time to trap the culprit. MURDER ON THE LINKS — On holiday with Hastings at a French seaside resort, Poirot gets drawn into a case that seems eerily familiar.
