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NOTE: If toi have never read Agatha Christie's novel, "Taken at the Flood" ou seen the 2006 télévision adaptation, I suggest that toi read no further. This review contains major spoilers.




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"TAKEN AT THE FLOOD" (2006) Review

Written in 1948, Agatha Christie's novel called "Taken at the Flood" told the story of the Cloade family in post-war Britian, who depends upon the good will of their cousin-in-law, Rosaleen Hunter Cloade; after her husband and their cousin is killed in an air raid during World War II. When her controlling brother, David,...

"DUMB WITNESS" (1996) Review

There is a belief among fans of the "AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT" series that the episodes and télévision films that aired between 1989 and 2001 - ones that featured Arthur Hastings, Chief Inspector Japp and Miss citron - were plus faithful adaptations of Agatha Christie's novels that the plus récent ones that have aired since 2003. I do not know if I agree with this opinion, especially after viewing the 1996 télévision movie, "DUMB WITNESS".

Screenwriter Douglas Watkinson's script plus ou less remained faithful to the 1937 novel's main narrative. Surrounded par grasping...

"THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES" (1990) Review

As a long time reader of Agatha Christie's novels, I have been well aware of her first novel that was published in 1920, namely "The Mysterious Affair at Styles". I read the novel once. But if I must be honest, I never became a fan of it.

Due to my lackluster feelings for the novel, it took me a while to watch the télévision adaptation of it, which aired on ITV's "AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT" back in 1990. But eventually I got around to it and was amazed to discover that it had been the seconde Christie novel to be adapted as a feature-length film...