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Checkout FunnyFact.com | SuperHeroBooks - Poirot - Set 12
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List Price: $39.99
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Manufacturer: Acorn Media
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781569384961
Format: Box set
ISBN: 1569384967
Label: Acorn Media
Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Acorn Media
Release Date: 2002-03-26
Running Time: 153
Studio: Acorn Media
Theatrical Release Date: 1990-01-18
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Best Poirot : David Suchet
Comment: David Suchet is the best Poirot ever, an extraordinary adaptation of Agatha Christie's mystery novels.
As seen on PBS, a BBC, A&E, & Granada production.
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Summary: Summer Movies
Comment: Arrived on time. No damage. Gave as a gift and recipient just loves them.
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Summary: I love Agatha Christie
Comment: I've just bought the Poirot Volume 12 set. I love all of these dvds and intend to own each one. I may already own them all. Along with all of the Miss Marple series. Anyone else as addicted as I am is my friend...thank you Amazon for making it possible to order them all.
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Summary: Poirot 12
Comment: This is the last of the 1 -12 set. Each DVD has three cases with the King of Clubs being my favorite on this set. David Suchet is Poirot and watching him in this role is very enjoyable.
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Summary: running out of believable plots
Comment: The British television industry has such an appetite for detective stories that the script writers are running out of quality, believable plots. This may not bother you if you view this series to enjoy the eccentric characters. Others will have to use their "suspended disbelief" mode of viewing to not get disappointed. Fans of the original Agatha Christie novels will be disappointed. One example of the disbelief being needed is when the police, the medical examiner, and Poirot fail to examine a crime scene and corpse for basic physical evidence, such as bruising, powder burns, and bullet trajectories, and jump to the wrong conclusion.
This set of programs comes from the time when British television viewers started complaining that the BBC programming was being dumbed down.
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Editorial Reviews:
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David Suchet returns as Agatha Christie's eccentric Belgian sleuth. Acorn Media productions of Christie's classic novels are always lovingly done, and this set is no exception. All three mysteries are well acted, shot in beautiful locations, and manage to fold in a little dry humor with the ghastly business at hand. "The King of Clubs" involves murder on a film set and just might have something to do with a game of bridge. In "The Dream" Poirot is called in to consult with a wealthy industrialist before a murder has even occurred. One does, of course, and there is also a gratifying call-everyone-together-in-one-room-so-the-detective-can-explain-everything scene. The Incredible Theft has a terrific pre-war flavor, and in this episode it's no mere murder--the very future of England is at stake! Suchet is a perfect Poirot, capturing the detective's faint ridiculousness without losing his very serious distaste for murder. Curl up with a hot cup of tea and enjoy. --Ali Davis
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