Agatha Christie's "Poirot"

[BegintheBeguine]

Hugh Fraser narrates some as well. Does a great job, I reccomend him also.

 

[Dixon Cannon]

David Souchet IS Poirot!...

The Poirot series with Souchet is just excellent. Captain Hastings is quite the dedicated follower of fashion, is he not?! And he loves Bugatti's!

And, Oh!... Mrs. Lemon!!

 

[Tomasso]

David Souchet IS Poirot!...

I wholeheartedly agree, just as Connery IS Bond.

 

[Chickpea]

Suchet IS Poirot, and it just feels wrong to see anyone else play this part. Ustinov is simply not the caracter.

I collect Poirot (Suchet), and watch it over and over again.
Everything is right; the feel, the architecture, the clothes and furniture, the english understatements... Wonderful props.

 

[Mike in Seattle]

Thanks to Amanda, Poirot is a new passion for me. It is simply not on often enough. I see it shows up on the Biography Channel from time to time and I always try to catch it.

Now, someone told me there's some novelizations out there... lol

They moved it in the last couple of weeks from Sunday afternoons to Saturday afternoon and, I think, into Saturday evening.

 

[Sunny]

Suchet IS Poirot, and it just feels wrong to see anyone else play this part. Ustinov is simply not the caracter.

I collect Poirot (Suchet), and watch it over and over again.
Everything is right; the feel, the architecture, the clothes and furniture, the english understatements... Wonderful props.

That's a really good point. The Suchet series often takes great liberties with, if not the actual facts of the cases, but with the setting and development. Capt. Hastings and especially Miss Lemon are inserted into many stories that originally involved Poirot alone. I'm usually a big proponent for textual accuracy, but this scarcely bothers me. It's because the facts, the characters, and most of all the feel of the stories remain true and consistent. Short stories are lengthened and dramatised, novels are telescoped, but the essentials are the same. And I won't dare to say that the changes actually improve the originals - but as the gentlemen have made abundantly clear, Miss Lemon, a vastly different character in the stories, is quite popular!

 

[Chickpea]

Very true Sunny. The original stories are merely a background for these small captures of a past time.

I´ve seen episodes w/o Hastings and Lemon, and it´s definately not the same. They compliment mr.Poirot and brings forth his ecentricities and his wonderful sense of humour.

 

[AlanC]

An ill spent early 20's with BBC America. Along with Poirot, I totally enjoyed the Sharpe series.

Did someone say Sharpe? :eusa_clap

 

[Decobelle]

I'm another Suchetist. I loved the series. I bought myself all of the movies on dvd and especially like watching them after a bad day at work - I find them oddly soothing (same with the books).

When Los Angeles hosted the "World Congress on Art Deco," many years ago now, one of the producers of the show (then still in production) was a guest speaker - I recall him mentioning the constant and difficult search for filming loctions, and the careful editing needed.

Also, if you haven's seen them, you really should take a look at the series of three Dorothy L. Sayers mysteries with Edward Petherbridge as Lord Peter Wimsey. I really enjoyed the older Wimsey productions with Ian Carmichael, but Petherbridge really captures the character. Highly recommended!

At the same event as above, I met this fellow:

Clarence Bertram St John Fitz Montague, aka "Bertie," there promoting the Napier NZ Art Deco Weekend (Napier would eventually host the World Congress also). I thought he would make the perfect Wimsey (in fact, I suspect he is Wimsey, working undercover as "Bertie") and ever since have been unable to accept anyone else in the role.

 

[Tomasso]

At the same event as above, I met this fellow: Clarence Bertram St John Fitz Montague, aka "Bertie," there promoting the Napier NZ Art Deco Weekend (Napier would eventually host the World Congress also)

Here's Mojito's thread about her visit to the Napier shindig.

 

[Sunny]

Clarence Bertram St John Fitz Montague, aka "Bertie," there promoting the Napier NZ Art Deco Weekend (Napier would eventually host the World Congress also). I thought he would make the perfect Wimsey (in fact, I suspect he is Wimsey, working undercover as "Bertie") and ever since have been unable to accept anyone else in the role.

In Murder Must Advertise, Wimsey goes undercover in an advertising agency. He's described by a co-worker as "Bertie Wooster in horn-rims,... but older - a well-preserved forty." lol :eusa_clap

 

[Darhling]

I love this show!! I prefer David Suchet as Poirot.. I really like Death on the Nile with Mia Farrow but that is with Peter Ustinov..

 

[Josephine]

I love this show!! I prefer David Suchet as Poirot.. I really like Death on the Nile with Mia Farrow but that is with Peter Ustinov..

I adore David as Poirot. Peter was too untidy and rumpled.

 

[Darhling]

I adore David as Poirot. Peter was too untidy and rumpled.

yes he was - David nails the little neat frenchman with the perfect moustache!

 

[Cascadian]

Based on the rave reviews on this thread, I've just requested a number of the David Suchet Poirot books-on-CD from my local library. Thank you for the recommendations!

 

[Shaul-Ike Cohen]

yes he was - David nails the little neat frenchman with the perfect moustache!

Belgian.

 

[Darhling]

Belgian.

Oh yes .. a big faux-pas, so sorry!

 

[FATS88]

*I Couldn't resist

My Mother recommended this series to me,
I probably would not have bothered to watch it.
It's great! presently saving up for classic collection 2.
I don't know about the lapel vase, cool but I'm bit too active
to wear one of those, I wouldn't want to lose it.
But I'll tell you what I did search and find; is the little
oval compact mirror that Poirot used in an episode.
I found a exact replica on Ruby lane's website,
carved ivory with a mirror on one side,
and inlays for a tiny nail file etc. on the other.
It sold for $275...it was already sold,
I'm glad too! I found a wood version for $5.00
including the personalized engraving, fits right in my waistcoat pockets,
just like the Maestro himself.
Anybody know where one might find one of those BEAUTIFULLY
detailed embroidered lounge coats, that he wears so well?


Fats88

*"I AM NOT A LITTLE NEAT FRENCHMAN,
I AM A NEAT LITTLE BELGIAN"

 

[Darhling]

"I AM NOT A LITTLE NEAT FRENCHMAN,
I AM A NEAT LITTLE BELGIAN"

hahaa, I know, I am so ashamed! And to think that I love the books and the tv-show and not remember he is Belgian. Shame on me.

 

[FATS88]

No shame in your game!

Have yet to discover the written works of Agatha Christie,
Should I start,(It'll probably be some time from now)
which books, or particular series would you recommend to start?