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Poirot - The New Mysteries Collection (Death on the Nile / Sad Cypress / The Hollow / Five Little Pigs) DVD

NR (Not Rated) :: A&E Home Video :: Released: 2005-02-22

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	4.0/5 (40 Reviews)

5/5 Wonderful collection!
  by Jenn S. (Fullerton, CA)
I am huge Hercule Poirot fan and I love this collection! Death On the Nile was the main reason I bought this collection but as I watched the other shows they were also just as good and I have re-watched this collection many times. Five Little Pigs has become another personal favorite of mine. I am so glad I have this set within my own personal collection! :)

2/5 Caveat Emptor
  by Martel Tamerlane
Poirot fans-

Beware! The sloth mongers at A&E are offering EDITED version of these programs. Some 33 minutes or approximately 8 minutes and fifteen seconds have been removed from each episode. You can pruchase the UNedited version from Amazon.co.uk -- if you have an All-Region player for £13.18 GBP or $US 19.05.

Don't be fooled as I was.

A&E should not be allowed to sell edited versions, especially as they are notorious for making bad editing decisions as anyone who has seen the unedited Lovejoys can attest.

Caveat Emptor.

5/5 POIROT
  by Aikaterina Hagood (Murfreesboro, TN)
I am a big fan of Agatha Christie's books but I also LOVE the series on DVD played by David Suchet. I think that he is awesome in the role of Hercule Poitot, from the facial expressions, to the extremely good detective skills that he shows.
I could watch him as well as any Mystery movie, especially if it is written by Agatha Christie for hours.

5/5 Hercule Poirot Mysteries
  by Stacey M. Potter
We have enjoyed the Hercule Poirot mysteries for a while now and we needed to add to our collection and so I decided to buy these because we enjoyed them a lot and we seldom get tired of seeing them. He always keeps you guessing. If you like mysteries you would enjoy these mysteries.

5/5 An excellent collection
  by Michael W. Perry (Author of Untangling Tolkien, Seattle, WA)
Agatha Christie has a well deserved reputation as one of the world's most popular authors, and her Hercule Poirot stories played by David Suchett are absolutely marvelous. I can recall four of the five mysteries in this series, and they're all quite good. If you like Poirot, you can't go wrong with this excellent set.

Poirot - The New Mysteries Collection (Death on the Nile / Sad Cypress / The Hollow / Five Little Pigs) Summary Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 02/22/2005

Portly, mincing, gracious, and unrelenting, Hercule Poirot rivals Sherlock Holmes as the greatest sleuth of the English murder mystery genre--a form as strict as a sonnet that's part logic puzzle, part magician's misdirection, of which Agatha Christie remains the undisputed queen. The New Mysteries Collection pulls together TV-movie adaptations of four Poirot novels, each a compendium of eccentric characters, intricate plotting, sleek storytelling, and sprinklings of wit (such as a dotty matriarch's declaration, "Murder is a very awkward thing--it upsets the servants so").

Death on the Nile sets an entire boatful of suspicious character afloat in Egypt, where Poirot's vacation is disrupted by a splash in the night, falling rock, missing pearls, three murders, and a boozing gargoyle named Salome Otterbourne. The plot is one of Christie's more preposterous, yet also one of her most popular. Sad Cypress opens with a murderess on trial, then flashes back to young lovers, a wealthy but stricken dowager, a spiteful anonymous letter, and a pretty young blonde. A wonderfully creepy dream haunts Poirot as he struggles to redeem the wrongly convicted killer. In The Hollow, Poirot's vacation in the English countryside gets disrupted by a philandering doctor apparently shot by his adoring wife, his blood trickling into a swimming pool clotted with leaves. But the best of the lot is Five Little Pigs, a story told almost entirely in flashback, as a young woman hires Poirot to clear her mother, who was convicted of murdering her father. Not only are the clues deftly planted and the solution cunningly worked out, it's one of the rare mysteries that inspires a genuine sorrow for its characters.

Scattered throughout are a wealth of recognizable faces, though not many recognizable names--among the better known are James Fox (The Remains of the Day), Edward Fox (The Day of the Jackal), Paul McGann (Withnail and I), Sarah Miles (White Mischief), Lysette Anthony (Husbands and Wives), and David Soul (Starsky & Hutch!). But it's David Suchet as Poirot who keeps everything in motion, his beady eyes glittering under heavy lids, constantly tending to one of the most ridiculous mustaches in literature. Poirot has been played by such stars as Peter Ustinov and Albert Finney, but Suchet has made the fastidious Belgian detective his own. He's simply magnifique. --Bret Fetzer

Agatha Christie's Poirot: The New... DVD Techincal Details Cast: David Suchet, Megan Dodds, Sarah Miles, Edward Fox
Director: Andy Wilson, Paul Unwin, Simon Langton Array
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Running Time: 400 mins
UPC: 733961717273
Binding: DVD
Studio: A&E Home Video
Release Date: 2005-02-22
Region Code: 1
Specs: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC

Language & Subtitles English (Original Language - Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Italian (Original Language - Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo),