Got to say, if you suspect someone of murder - tell someone- people in mystery books never do and end up the next victim
@gregdeandrea1450
Жыл бұрын
Ashamed to admit it, but the "dead face" in this movie scared me as a kid. Something about it just stuck with me.
@charis6311
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this new installment and I agree absolutely about Nurse Latheran being an interesting enough character to handle this on her own. What really bothered me in the book was the preposterous idea a woman could be married to someone she already had been married to without noticing it! They were not royalty living in different castles but shared their day to day lives not to mention a bed as well. How can you not recognize the feel and smell of your own husband???
@frozz5676764
Жыл бұрын
That's bother me too, how on earth she didn't recognise her death husband? Did he have plastic surgery ?She hate him to the point she forgot his voice/face/smell/habit ? Well Christie tend to make solutions out of nowhere . Still love her books .
@tiararoxeanne1318
Жыл бұрын
I feel the same. 'Murder in Mesopotamia' and 'Death on the Nile' are two Christie's novels of which the murders are hard to believe. In this story, it is hard to believe a wife doesn't recognize an ex husband, while in 'Death on the Nile' there should be a much simpler way to kill the victim in her own house (where the culprit could control the environment) rather than do it in public setting out of the country.
@suzie_lovescats
9 ай бұрын
@@tiararoxeanne1318Some people aren’t that intelligent or use their common sense 😏
@Infinite-slops
9 ай бұрын
Does anyone know the name of the episode where there was a mask dangled down onto someones window?
@suzie_lovescats
9 ай бұрын
@@Infinite-slopsThe one this video is talking about.
@melissamarsh2219
Жыл бұрын
There’s also Jane Grey in Death in the Clouds
@lukacunningham342
Жыл бұрын
Also, let somebody (not you Kenneth!) make “The Moving Finger” with Miss Marple have as much screen time as she did in the original book
@uptonogood1893
9 ай бұрын
Agatha Christie also had the mystery solved by a recovering fighter pilot in the "Moving Finger". Miss Marple gets brought in about 2/3 of the story in. I really liked that one as I liked the characters.
@92Mutu
Жыл бұрын
I recall reading this novel and beeing suprised that Poirot wasn't there in the beginning. When he appears later it feels like he has been forced to come and solve the story. Our lady lead could've easily solved the case by herself. But it was good to have "Papa-Poirot" as backup. It would be cool to see her as the main lead, though =)
@StarUnreachable
Жыл бұрын
Oh hey, it's the episode that gave me a pathological fear of masks and hydrochloric acid! I always remembered this one very vividly but didn't know what the title was.
@Unownshipper
Жыл бұрын
11:57 "Someday, a really good filmmaker... NO!" That's just plain funny. Two in less than 2 weeks! Nice! I really enjoy this adaptation, but it might just be because the locked-room mystery aspect of it is so good. Having not read the book, I could see why you'd be upset by Amy's downgrade. Sadly, for the purposes of the screen, specifically serialized television, it just works better to have recurring characters like Hasting put in even if it steps on interesting one-off characters. I'll be very excited for when you do Appointment With Death, but do take your time. I think you've touched on it already, but I'd be interested in your take on a more in-depth comparison. I think the Suchet version messes up the mystery but absolutely nails the tone the story ought to have while the film version replicates the mystery well enough, but utterly botches the tone. It's a strange situation.
@karlkarlos3545
Ай бұрын
Great, I've read this one! I wish I could watch more of your reviews, but you always give away the ending.
@sgz257
Жыл бұрын
These videos make my day. Any chance we could get a Thunderdome battle for 4:50_from Paddington?
@DavidMacDowellBlue
Жыл бұрын
I like your idea very much. Myself, I found the solution make little sense because bluntly the husband is an obvious suspect and there is no reason to suspect anyone else! Not really! Given that he found her body, this makes him look even more suspicious.
@ravivenkitaraman7011
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, enjoyed as always. Agree with the critics here and elsewhere that the “meet the new husband, same as the old husband” twist was just rubbish to swallow. And your suggestion to drop poirot from a potential remake is intriguing.
@calebcostigan2561
8 күн бұрын
Great as always, Myles. 💙 I would love to hear your thoughts on/see a video about Lord Edgware Dies and how the tv adaptation doesn’t quite play fair with us viewers. (The dinner party scene before the murder)
@MysteryMiles
8 күн бұрын
I know exactly what you mean. :)
@susanacheng9381
4 ай бұрын
Can't recall if I posted that Joan Hickson played Nurse Leatheran in a 1940s production (on stage?)
@jesusdelcanto9715
26 күн бұрын
John Curran states in The Secret Notebooks of AC that the problem with this mystery is the fact that its resolution relies on a clue impossible to figure out: that one of the characters is married to another.
@TheSuzberry
13 күн бұрын
I’d like to see a production done by Hugh Laurie.
@chriswald7700
Жыл бұрын
Imho the novel is entertaining but the resolution is the most laughable of all Christies.
@1635-w9x
Жыл бұрын
"David emmet" cracked me up. I have often wondered is Carey deliberatetly dressed as indy?
@JamesSedgwick-jp6hh
8 ай бұрын
I had heard that David Suchet became ill during the filming due to the intense heat.
@seto749
9 ай бұрын
If only they had put this into the same season as Death in the Clouds.
@AndreaSzabo7171
28 күн бұрын
Yes I told the police recently about one of my neighbours who was a very good friend of mine who died last summer. His name was Karl Derek Jones There are witnesses. It is not speculative suspicion. The police 🚔 were supposed to visit me. They did not.
@JamesSedgwick-jp6hh
8 ай бұрын
I figured it out when I read the book before the murder was even committed. I said to myself while I was reading it, if I was Agatha Christie this person would be the killer and for this reason. I figured out the who and the why but not the how.
@JamesSedgwick-jp6hh
8 ай бұрын
Also, I had no problem with Louise not recognizing her husband and being fooled into marrying him again. A person's appearance can change over the years to the point where he or she are unrecognizable. I found that out through personal experience.
@florencemacmillan2184
3 ай бұрын
Why do you keep putting Harrison Ford's image in the video?
@animeaction1911
Ай бұрын
Because the character isn't featured in the film version, he's used as a stand in, which also goes for the 4th Doctor and Jack Black too
@philipmonihan8222
Жыл бұрын
You make an excellent case for your movie idea but can we change the hydrochloric acid murder? That upset me.
@floraposteschild4184
2 ай бұрын
It should be made clear that the murderer was in a train crash and his body was misidentified. His appearance was changed drastically by the accident. His once and future wife met him many years after his "death", so I think her not recognizing him is possible.
@alidabaxter5849
9 ай бұрын
The casting is the worst aspect - if the husband's appearance had changed drastically it might just be possible but the killer has a forehead so low he looks neanderthal ❤❤
@ncooty
Жыл бұрын
She didn't recognize her own husband? It's hard not to sprain an eyeball with all the eyerolls induced by Dame Agatha's plots.
@suzie_lovescats
10 ай бұрын
Thing is it had been several years since she last saw him and he was disfigured from the train wreck and plus he grew a beard but before he was clean shaven.
@JamesBrown-ij1px
10 ай бұрын
I think the premise may be more believable today with modern advances in 'plastic surgery'. Today, it would be possible to 'transform' a person into an unrecognizable form. As for more 'intimate' aspects, one can imagine that she found them to be 'similar' to her 1st husband and that endeared him to her. Remember, this is Christie, so there is a psychological aspect to most of the details.
@pearly872
9 ай бұрын
Really??? And he now has a new way to disfigure his loving making too?....Your obvious very young and inexperienced. @@suzie_lovescats
@suzie_lovescats
2 ай бұрын
@@pearly872I don’t know if you noticed but they had separate bedrooms 😂 they didn’t even sleep in the same room let alone the same bed 🤪
@bananaman7637
Жыл бұрын
12:00 Rian Johnson sucks. I pray he never gets a hold of any Poirot stories or any stories by that matter.
@suzie_lovescats
9 ай бұрын
I disagree with your analysis 👎🏻
@dannedusud
Жыл бұрын
I agree
@dannedusud
Жыл бұрын
with most of your analysis. About the Mercado'S , it is too much and wrong casting. Personally, I would have preferred a version of the book closer to the book, with the nurse with a big part, AND Poirot as he is in the book. I really enjoy this book.
@SarahBright
Жыл бұрын
I wouldn't take out Poirot. Just give him a smaller rol. And take out Hastings.
@pearly872
9 ай бұрын
totally boring childish plots with simpleton endings. Poirot is a horrible narcissist, insecure having to reenforce his insecurities. The same in each story, they may read ok, but a live story is a mess. Always using cheap copouts for social hangups ie: drugs, always drugs instead of alcohol...The series ran in the 80's ad 90's, when cocaine was popular and Poirot never missed a cheap shot at it...instead of Gin...wouldn't want to offend the British Establishment....Shallow, dull and simple minded actors the program was doomed by tired writing and ancient plots..
@suzie_lovescats
9 ай бұрын
You’re in the minority there 🤨
@BowieZ
3 ай бұрын
'boring, childish plots, simpleton ending' Boring? Well, if that's how you felt, that's unfortunate. Childish? I'm not exactly sure what about the plot is childish -- apart from the killer's behaviour, which is certainly childish, like most murderers, stubbornly obsessive and possessive. Simpleton ending? Not sure what you mean here, but the solution is one of the least simple in the entire whodunit oeuvre. The murderer nearly died twice, spent decades building a fake identity and fake career, wrote threatening letters to her ex, remarried her under his pseudonym, then planned to kill her by tormenting her with a mask at the window, hiring a nurse weeks in advance to eventually establish his alibi, and finally killed her by getting her to open the window then from the roof dropping a large stone on a rope onto her head.
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