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Agatha Christie's Poirot Movie Collection Set 6

David Suchet , Martin Shaw , Charles Palmer , Ashley Pearce  |  NR |  DVD
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  • Actors: David Suchet, Martin Shaw, Anna Massey, Zoë Wanamaker
  • Directors: Charles Palmer, Ashley Pearce
  • Format: Box set, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
  • Number of discs: 3
  • Rated: NR (Not Rated)
  • Studio: ACORN MEDIA
  • DVD Release Date: July 12, 2011
  • Run Time: 267 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (63 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B004WMOSNM
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,946 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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David Suchet returns as Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie’s endearingly fastidious sleuth, in three baffling new cases based on her classic novels. As seen on the "PBS Masterpiece Mystery!" series.

Disc 1
Three Act Tragedy
Deadly Dinners Whet Poirot's Investigative Appetite
 
While visiting the Cornish coast, Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) attends a dinner at which one of the guests suddenly dies. An inquest finds no evidence of foul play. But Poirot’s host, renowned stage actor Sir Charles Cartwright, thinks otherwise, and another death at a later party with the same guests seems to confirm his suspicions. Together with Sir Charles and his vivacious friend Egg, Poirot applies “la technique classique”—eliminating the suspects, one by one.
 
 
Disc 2
The Clocks
Poirot Identifies A Man Whose Time Ran Out
 
While trying to unmask a mole at Dover’s military base, Lt. Colin Race enlists Poirot to help him aid a pretty secretary apparently framed for murder. Called to a residence on a quiet street for a temporary typing job, she found only a man’s corpse lying on the floor. No one can identify the body, find a murder weapon, or explain the presence of four strange clocks—none of which belongs in the home, and all of which stopped at 4:13.
 
 
Disc 3
Hallowe’en Party
Poirot Looks For Ghosts From A Young Girl's Past
 
Wholesome fun at Woodleigh Common turns harrowing when a children’s Halloween party ends in the murder of 13-year-old Joyce Reynolds. Poirot is summoned by an old acquaintance, crime novelist Ariadne Oliver, to help in the investigation. He seizes on a clue: immediately before her death, Joyce had boasted of having witnessed a murder several years before, although she didn’t realize it was a murder at the time. Although everyone pooh-poohs her claim, Poirot knows that “old sins cast long shadows.”

Customer Reviews

Mr. Suchet can't be beat as Hercule Poirot! DM Tucson  |  9 reviewers made a similar statement
Those looking for great films of intrigue done with style and story? E. K. Bolin  |  10 reviewers made a similar statement
Now, I can hardly wait for a set 7 ! Deni Poste  |  10 reviewers made a similar statement
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100 of 101 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
David Suchet's Poirot on TV films are adaptations of Agatha Christie's novels--but so well done, both books and TV shows/DVDs have proved classic in their own right. Thus, I avoid comparison of novel to screen. No need, both excellent.
The star casts and guest stars are too numerous to mention. One can't fault acting a half-penny. This release comes hot off the screen of PBS Masterpiece Mystery after original ITV1 in the UK. All 3 adapted stories are each feature length, 89 min. -like going to the theater 3 times.
SUBTITLES ARE included. No bonus material.

Three Act Tragedy
A lovely Cornwall coastal location for a Poirot murder case(s). A parson (Nigel Pegram) one of many at a dinner party drops dead of apparent natural cause. A 2nd Yorkshire party-same guest list-has a 2nd death, the host Tallie (Art Malik-`Upstairs Downstairs'). Hercule helps Sir Charles (Martin Shaw-`George Gently') investigate. Egg (Kimberly Nixon-`Cranford') helps too, or is she suspect? Poirot reenacts the complex and connected deaths under stage lights.
Other stars: Jane Asher (`Wish Me Luck' `Alfie'), Kate Ashfield (`Silent Witness'), Tony Maudsley (`Doc Martin' `Foyle's War'), Anna Carteret (`Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont'), plus.

The Clocks
Five murders plus love at the White Cliffs of Dover, a wonderful backdrop. 1940s prior to WWII but Hitler threatens says Admiral Hamling (Goeffrey Palmer-`As Time Goes By"). The case erupts with the duel death of German mole Annie (Olivia Grant-`Lark Rise to Candleford') and Fiona (Anna Skellern-`Siren'). MI6 Lt. Race (Tom Burke-`Cheri') asks Poirot to help his naval investigation. Evidence implicates typist Sheila (Jamie Winstone) running from the murder site home of a blind lady (Anna Massey-`Darling Buds of May').
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50 of 53 people found the following review helpful
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"Agatha Christie's Poirot" Movie Collection Set 6 contains three feature-length episodes from Series 12, which originally aired on Britain's ITV in 2010. The forth film from Series 12, "Murder on the Orient Express", is found in Movie Collection Set 5. "Three-Act Tragedy", based on the 1934 novel, "The Clocks", based on the 1963 novel, and "Hallowe'en Party", based on the 1969 novel, have all been set in the 1930s in keeping with the chronology of the television series. Common to the later years of "Agatha Christie's Poirot", the color palette is richer, the sets more lavish, and the photography is darker than the airy deco and modernist sets of the series' early years. I'm not a fan of the change. I find the new aesthetic uninteresting and rather onerous. And Poirot's new wide, pointy mustache looks sinister.

Some stylistic flourishes in "Three-Act Tragedy", such as the clumsy introduction of the cast of characters and the staging of some conversations as if they were on stage, are unwelcome. "The Clocks" is a good story, but an additional mystery having to do with rising tensions with Germany has been added, which I think overburdens the Christie plot. "Hallowe'en Party" was one of Christie's later novels and not one of her best. It's sordid and distasteful, but this may reflect sensibilities of the 1960s, the decade in which it was written. There are hints of the strange religiosity the writers have introduced in recent years, but the films in Movie Collection Set 6 are better than those in Set 5. The scripts are not the quality of the early years of the series, but part of the problem there is that Christie's novels are not all of equal quality. Poirot has recovered his good nature after some missteps in the last set.
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35 of 43 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars David Suchet's Poirot May 28, 2011
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Mr. Suchet can't be beat as Hercule Poirot! I think I've now bought most items available and enjoy them all thoroughly time and time again. He is absolutely fantastic in this long running series. I think Ms. Christie would have been very happy with this series in general.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Incredibily Enjoyable November 16, 2011
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Poirot Set 6 is a three-feature-film set. And for fans of the show it goes without saying that Poirot starring David Suchet is an exquisite treat; both for the mind, and the senses. Those looking for great films of intrigue done with style and story? Yes, these too should get the set toot sweet.

The delightful films have the fastidious little detective shuttle-bugging about - and he is almost as distracting as the finely woven threads of the stories' often brilliant tapestries. I admit to being smitten with good set design...here it is simply orgasmic. The era is everywhere. Sometimes you (I) must rewind the DVD as people spoke but they were not heard over some elegant piece of furniture, or wall hanging. This is good too, because there's hardly a proper mansteak in the set, and a girl needs visual stimulus, even in a good mystery...

Tragedy in Three Acts is the most visually exciting - era-wise. Here we find Poirot attending a swanky dinner party at his old friend's Sir Charles Cartwright (Martin Shaw) - who is a retired theater star, when viola! Faster than the butler can announce cocktails are being served in the main room, a seemingly natural death occurs. It is not until a month later, when the exact same style of death - with the same dinner guests attending - happens once more, that Poirot's little gray cells begin to twirl. The tie-up is wonderful. Guest stars include Jane Asher, Art Malik, and Kimberley Nixon.

Halloween is very atmospheric, the subject matter a tad disturbing. Poirot is called in to investigate the murder of a child...The local "witch" and gossip, has plenty to whisper about her hamlet. Though Poirot detests tales of the macabre, he is like the apple bobbing in the water, until...at last...Hercule has figured it out!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Another set of movies based on Agatha Christies novels
I purchased these as well as Set 1 to add to my Poirot movie collection. This collection of movies continues the exploits of my favourite detective from Belgium. Read more
Published 5 days ago by kiwitech
5.0 out of 5 stars love poirot
Great dvd's. I am a huge fan of Poirot and love all the episodes. To me David Suchet is Hercule Poirot.
Published 7 days ago by lily
4.0 out of 5 stars Bought as gift
I bought this as a gift for my mom. She enjoyed it, The packaging was great and none of the disks were displaced.
Published 11 days ago by Silentgirl
5.0 out of 5 stars David Suchet great great
I love these movies any body that knows me knows how much. and I have seen all the movies made with US actors. can't hold a candle. I don't like all english acting. Read more
Published 19 days ago by susan shellenback
2.0 out of 5 stars These later Poirot movies do not live up to Agatha Christie's books....
These later Poirot movies do not live up to Agatha Christie's books. Even the characters are "remade. Read more
Published 27 days ago by S. Chaikin
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Show!
David Suchet is great as Poirot! He is the only one can do justice that part. It is a well done show!
Published 1 month ago by Blainemco
5.0 out of 5 stars Never disappointed!
As usual, this is a great set of CHristie stories. No problem with the DVD quality, or the supplier, either. Read more
Published 2 months ago by GardenGirl
5.0 out of 5 stars Agatha Christie's Poirot Movie Collection Set 6
David Suchet is up to his usual marvelous performance. So glad to be able to add this to my Poirot collection.
Published 2 months ago by Barbara Dolezal
5.0 out of 5 stars They Broke The Mold On Agatha Christie's Poirot When The Part Went To...
The numbers of reviews submitted for the various packages of David Suchet's portrayal of Agatha Christie's beloved Belgian detective Hercules Poirot is testament enough as to its... Read more
Published 2 months ago by AvidOldiesCollector
5.0 out of 5 stars Poirot
The last of 6 dvd sets I've purchesed is just as good as the first. Love all the
Poirot stories.
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