An enchanting beauty is fatally poisoned while Poirot holidays on the Greek island of Rhodes.An enchanting beauty is fatally poisoned while Poirot holidays on the Greek island of Rhodes.An enchanting beauty is fatally poisoned while Poirot holidays on the Greek island of Rhodes.
- Good Woman
- (as Sophia Olympiou)
- Custom's Officer
- (as Telemahos Emanuel)
- Purser
- (as Yannis Hadjiyannis)
- Director
- Writers
- Stephen Wakelam
- Agatha Christie(uncredited)
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- TriviaThere are several references to the geopolitical context of the time, which is strongly flagged as 1935-6. There is the main front-page headline in the copy of the Daily Express read by Poirot, which refers to the Abyssinian Crisis. There are prominent portraits of Mussolini. There is Poirot's observation that the harbour on Rhodes is being fortified and finally there is Major Barnes heading to Abyssinia / Ethiopia, on the ludicrous pretence that it's to hunt ostriches.
- GoofsOn the column placed on the east pier, by the side of Agios Nikolaos Fortress, at the entrance of the Mandraki harbor, at the time in which the story is set, there was not a hind, but the Capitoline she Wolf suckling the infants Romulus and Remus.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Dicker: Oh yes, and what time do we call this, then, eh?
Postman: Don't want to get you out of bed.
[hands over letters and packages]
Dicker: No good leaving all this stuff for 56B. They're on holiday.
Postman: What, all of 'em?
Dicker: Oh, yeah. That Captain Hastings has gone off shooting things, and the secretary has gone off to visit her sister in Folkestone.
Postman: Well, what of the French one?
Dicker: Somewhere foreign. Sent me a postcard with goats on it.
Postman: Oh, yeah, I remember. Well, let's hope it keeps fine for him.
We are still in the first series and Poirot has gone on vacation in Rhodes, meaning overseas location shooting.
Rhodes at the time was under Italian control and Poirot finds himself investigating the murder of beautiful enchantress Valentine Chantry (Annie Lambert) by a poisoned drink. It seems her husband might had been the intended victim and the main suspect is Douglas Gold (Peter Settelen.) Gold is visiting the island with his wife but he is mesmerised by Valentine and soon arouses her husband's jealousy as well as upsetting his own wife.
Poirot is stripped here of his regulars with no Hastings and Japp. He does have a character who he gets friendly with during his investigation. The drama is leisurely paced, sumptuously filmed and tries to wrong foot you with a wrong kind of triangle.
- Prismark10
- Jul 4, 2017
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- Kallithea Springs, Greece(Bathing beach scene)
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- Runtime50 minutes
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