![]() Longer works by Christie were adapted for the series in the past, some of them very well ( The Mysterious Affair At Styles (1990) was the first, and a personal favourite of mine), but they all felt very televisual and kept rather too strictly to a series format. They concentrated only on full-length novels, rather than short stories. ![]() In 2003, the production team behind the films took them in a new direction. The series started life on ITV in 1989 with short, light, 50-minute episodes, adapted from Christie’s numerous short stories, with the wonderful David Suchet perfectly capturing the little Belgian detective’s mannerisms and eccentricities. I am referring to it as a film (because that is what it is, regardless what size screen it is viewed on), but it also a television episode an instalment of ITV’s long-running series Agatha Christie’s Poirot. ![]() This is what it was like for me when I first watched director Philip Martin’s utterly brilliant reimagining of one of Agatha Christie’s most famous stories – Murder on the Orient Express. They creep up on you, seemingly out of nowhere, and defy any expectations you originally had. ![]()
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