![]() ![]() ![]() Actually one of the victims (Ms Leidner) has an interesting past but she is too pathetic to hold our sympathy. Their function is to listen to Poriot, provide him with information or disinformation and to die when necessary. They are simply boring (the Arabs are non-starters). 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. What is quite striking about this story as filmed is the utter flatness of all the other characters. 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. ![]() 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. After 12 years of playing Poirot, David Suchet has the part off pat, and it is hard to imagine anyone doing it better. ![]()
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