Poirot - Classic Crimes Collection (The Mystery of the Blue Train / After the Funeral / Cards on the Table / Taken at the Flood)
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Actor: David Suchet, David Yelland, Hugh Fraser, Pauline Moran, Philip JacksonBrand: A&E HOME ENT.
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 379 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
Product features:
- Tony Award-nominee David Suchet reprises his celebrated role as Hercule Poirot in the CLASSIC CRIMES COLLECTION--an exclusive collection of four brand-new A&E original films. Artfully adapted from Agatha Christie s famous mystery series, each multi-million dollar production features a top-notch cast, stunning settings, and, of course, enough murder and mystery to test the mettle of our inimitably
DVD Reviews of Poirot - Classic Crimes Collection (The Mystery of the Blue Train / After the Funeral / Cards on the Table / Taken at the Flood)
DVD Review: The Mystery of the Blue Train
Summary: 1 Stars
I only saw The Mystery of the Blue Train of this set and if the others are anything like it, I don't think I'd be interested. This film does not meet up in visual standards to or have the story coherence of the regular TV series. The fades between scenes were amateurish, the editing disjointed and I wanted to fire the cinematographer. I do not subscribe to the trendy technique of excessive closeups and being unable to situate the characters in a scene or in relation to each other. If you like looking at a parade of cut-off heads, you will love this film.DVD Review: TheMystery of the Blue Train, Cards on theTable
Summary: 2 Stars
Both The Mystery of the Blue Train and Cards on the Table were too complex,filled with side issues that in no way added to
the stories. The implied (and implicit) homosexual implications, and tne change in having the explorer more interested in the weak, fearful not very intelligent girl caused the entire thing to be unfocused and a little like a mixed cocktail created with every left over drink one finds in the bar And why is Rhoda a sociopathic sadist?. I give the actors credit for attempting to overcome this mess. Zoe Wanamaker is particularly good. More acerbic & interesting than te original Mrs. Oliver. Agatha Christie's plots are really quite good. Why not let them alone? If anything, sometimes there are too many characters to fit into anything but a 120 min. film, so cleaning up rather than adding more nonessential stuff would seem more fitting. As would adding more richness & reality to stereotypical characters (the colonial, the maid, the effete collector, the ingenue, etc). The Mystery of the Blue Train was not only disappointing, but not memorable. In fact, I can barely remember it.
DVD Review: M Hercule Poirot
Summary: 4 Stars
What can I say? I am a great fan of M Poirot. Love those little gray cells of his.DVD Review: POIROT-Classic Crimes Collection
Summary: 1 Stars
If you are an Agatha Christie fan, don't buy this collection. I watched (suffered through) 3 of the DVD's. They have changed the endings of the stories and have made muddled messes of the plots.
I gave my brand new collection away.
Read the books.
DVD Review: Great Collection!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I love Hercule Poirot and bought it because I really liked The Mystery of the Blue Train but I also fell in love with After the Funeral and Cards on the Table. I have re-watched this collection many times and I am so proud to have it within my own collection!
Description of Poirot - Classic Crimes Collection (The Mystery of the Blue Train / After the Funeral / Cards on the Table / Taken at the Flood)
Tony Award-nominee David Suchet reprises his celebrated role as Hercule Poirot in the CLASSIC CRIMES COLLECTION--an exclusive collection of four brand-new A&E original films. Artfully adapted from Agatha Christie s famous mystery series each multi-million dollar production features a top-notch cast stunning settings and of course enough murder and mystery to test the mettle of our inimitably beloved Belgian sleuth.The CLASSIC CRIMES COLLECTION contains the following four brand-new Poirot movies:THE MYSTERY OF THE BLUE TRAIN: When the daughter of an oil magnate is found dead on the famous Blue Train to the French Riviera Poirot must investigate the past to reveal the killer.TAKEN AT THE FLOOD: Mystery surrounds a young woman after her new husband is killed in the London Blitz but with the discovery of new information Poirot wonders about her true motives.AFTER THE FUNERAL: Following the murder of a wealthy patriarch Poirot is called upon to begin an investigation. The case takes a wild twist however when his prime suspect turns up dead.CARDS ON THE TABLE: When the host is found dead at a card game four investigators - including Poirot himself - look for clues as they set out to discover which guest is the killer.System Requirements:Running Time 379 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA UPC:?733961752106 Manufacturer No:?AAE-75210The incomparable David Suchet reprises his role as Agatha Christie's indefatigable Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot in this collection of four A&E teleplays. Poirot is older now, and mostly solo in solving his crimes, without his previous sidekicks Hastings and Japp. Yet the world-weary Suchet is as compelling as ever to watch, surrounded by the decadent rich who seem to find murder an easy solution to life's inconveniences. The Mystery of the Blue Train, for instance, features a young, and suddenly very dead, heiress, with a dissolute husband, an overprotective father (a fabulously blustery Elliott Gould), greedy cousins, and all sorts of scheming money-owing hangers-on--all cocooned and coddled on a luxury train on the French Riviera. Indeed, one of the many pleasures of this collection is its very high production values; sets, costumes, and locations are detailed and opulently believable. (Though one annoying tic from the films' TV roots inexplicably remains: some "naughty" words, like the "God" in "God-damned," are edited out; surely we home viewers could handle a teensy bit of upper-crust rough talk?) The supporting casts are rich and varied, and the suspects deliciously numerous. And at the center of it all is the ever-refined, driven Poirot, who will not rest until the evil-doers are exposed. Extras include biographies of Agatha Christie and of David Suchet. --A.T. Hurley
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