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You're in good company with Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov), Agatha Christie's impeccable Belgian sleuth who's always at his best at chic soirees where the hospitality is warm...and the corpses are cold. Match wits with the master in this full-course banquet of mystery involving a country-house game of murder turned real (Dead Man's Folly), a move star turned amateur detective (Murder in Three Acts), and a dinner part turned deadly (Thirteen at Dinner). Bon appetit! Customer Reviews
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funny thing
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i love agatha christie therefore i love everyrthing agatha christie, but i love hercule the most. peter ustinov is so perfect as a poirot. and helen hayes is just lovely as miss marple. i don't like the new ones in the british series, esp the guy who played poirot. but this dvd is for collection. i'll buy again and complete the series.
A silly waste of Peter Ustinov's time and talent.
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Hrcule Poirot acted by David Suchet is so far superior than the Peter Ustinov's portrayal. He had a silly accent; David Suchet as Inspector Japp was terrible and while the whole thing I think was meant to be tongue- in-cheek, their tongues should have been bitten instead.
Agatha Christie Collection Featuring Peter Ustinov
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i haven't seen these movies in years and i always wanted them on DVD. As a great Agatha Christie Fan i must say, that Peter Ustinov is a genius! Of course in his appearance, he is not the perfect Hercule Poirot- Poirot never had white hair! But its also lovely, to see David Suchet as Inspector Japp, whom i admire so much as Hercule Poirot. And all three movies are filled with celebreties like Tony Curtis, David Suchet of course ect. Of course for some people it might look a little odd, that the stories of Agatha Christie are taking place in "modern times" meaning the 80's. Thats something, you actually realise in the end, when you think: " wait a minute- that doesn't fit!" But Peter Ustinov is amazing and i think it was a little challenge for David Suchet to fit in these big footsteps. (He made it of course!)
Excellent renditions
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These three Poirot adaptations were originally made for TV movies. I found them to be highly entertaining and very accurate in following the books. I agree with some of the other reviewers that Hastings was made to look unnecessarily stupid in these movies, but I don't think it is fair to compare them constantly to the Suchet adaptations. I would agree that Suchet is definitely the quintessential Poirot, but these are just as good in their own fashion, and they are very amusing in places. If you enjoy the character and not just one man's interpretation, then you will enjoy this set, provided it doesn't skip or freeze during playback, something mine regrettably does.
Poirot Does not Belong in the 1980s!
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I really regret buying this collection without reading the only other one star review given to it here. Peter Ustinov is a great actor and he can do a fine Poirot (only David Suchet is better apart from Albert Finney).
But putting Poirot in the setting of 1980s does not work. It does not work because Agatha Christie wrote her Poirot stories decades before. A gentleman detective who solved crimes through the power of his "little gray cells" made sense in the setting of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. But in the 1980s with its modern forensics, pathology, and criminal science, Poirot is an enormous anachronism.
About the only people who might like this are those who enjoy things like productions of Shakespeare with bizarre settings (like a production of MacBeth set in the 1930s in the Louisiana Bayou that I walked out on once). For people who think the series of movies and shorts starring David Suchet is perfection, watching this desecration will be as much fun as a root canal. Avoid, avoid, avoid.
