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Original title: Dead Man's Folly

TV Movie
1986
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1h 34m

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6.3/10

2.4K

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Whodunnit Crime Drama Mystery

During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.

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IMDb RATING

6.3/10

2.4K

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Peter Ustinov

Hercule Poirot

Jean Stapleton

Ariadne Oliver

Constance Cummings

Amy Folliat

Tim Pigott-Smith

Sir George Stubbs

Jonathan Cecil

Captain Arthur Hastings

Kenneth Cranham

Detective Inspector Bland

Susan Wooldridge

Amanda Brewis

Christopher Guard

Alec Legge

Jeff Yagher

Eddie South

Nicollette Sheridan

Hattie Stubbs
(as Nicolette Sheridan)

Ralph Arliss

Michael Weyman

Caroline Langrishe

Sally Legge

Siv Borg

Blond Hostel Girl
(uncredited)

Fanny Carby

2nd Woman
(uncredited)

Cyril Conway

2nd Man
(uncredited)

Simon Cowell-Parker

Forensic Man
(uncredited)

Joanna Dickens

3rd Woman
(uncredited)

Sandra Dickinson

Marilyn Gale
(uncredited)

Director
- Clive Donner
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9/10

Peter Ustinov IS Hercule Poirot!

I love Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot. Forget all those other phonies who've tried to fill his shoes! Including that ridiculous Murder on the Orient Express, or that laughable David Sachet!

His sly, lovable demeanor rivals any of the great actors playing detectives- Peter Falk as Columbo, etc. He has a wonderful way of gaining the confidence and trust of each of his suspects, while probing them for information. You never really know who he suspects, and that's the fun of the mystery. He guides you through the maze like true detective.

I have seen each of his delicious portrayals as the great, Belgian detective several times, and they just get better with age.

JackStallion
Dec 20, 2004
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Trivia
Amy Folliat (Constance Cummings) quotes sixteenth century poet Edmund Spenser's work "The Faerie Queene": "Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas,/ Ease after war, death after life, doth greatly please." This verse is inscribed on Dame Agatha Christie's tombstone.

Goofs
The title of Ariadne Oliver's latest novel, "Hatchets Blood and a Parakeet", is - dependent on how you read it - incorrect in either grammar or punctuation, something which would be picked up at the proof-reading editorial stage by her publishers.

Quotes
Hercule Poirot: [Visiting the Nasse House wine cellar] You know, every wine, even a small wine, has its own personality with its own secret past and its own promises of pleasure in the future. And so those of us who have been witnesses of death as we have - for them, this is a manifestation of life. What is it, it's...
[inspects label on bottle]
Hercule Poirot: Lynch-Bages 1944! You know that when these grapes were being picked, the battle was raging all the way round the vineyard, but picked they were. That's life. And now, after the battlefield and all that is forgotten, these grapes have turned into juice and are quietly in the bottle developing strength and character and certainty. Life.