Oh hey, it's the episode that gave me a pathological fear of masks and hydrochloric acid! I always remembered this one very vividly but didn't know what the title was.
I recall reading this novel and beeing suprised that Poirot wasn't there in the beginning. When he appears later it feels like he has been forced to come and solve the story. Our lady lead could've easily solved the case by herself. But it was good to have "Papa-Poirot" as backup. It would be cool to see her as the main lead, though =)
Thanks for this new installment and I agree absolutely about Nurse Latheran being an interesting enough character to handle this on her own. What really bothered me in the book was the preposterous idea a woman could be married to someone she already had been married to without noticing it! They were not royalty living in different castles but shared their day to day lives not to mention a bed as well. How can you not recognize the feel and smell of your own husband???
That's bother me too, how on earth she didn't recognise her death husband? Did he have plastic surgery ?She hate him to the point she forgot his voice/face/smell/habit ? Well Christie tend to make solutions out of nowhere . Still love her books .
I feel the same. 'Murder in Mesopotamia' and 'Death on the Nile' are two Christie's novels of which the murders are hard to believe. In this story, it is hard to believe a wife doesn't recognize an ex husband, while in 'Death on the Nile' there should be a much simpler way to kill the victim in her own house (where the culprit could control the environment) rather than do it in public setting out of the country.
Agatha Christie also had the mystery solved by a recovering fighter pilot in the "Moving Finger". Miss Marple gets brought in about 2/3 of the story in. I really liked that one as I liked the characters.
11:57 "Someday, a really good filmmaker... NO!" That's just plain funny. Two in less than 2 weeks! Nice! I really enjoy this adaptation, but it might just be because the locked-room mystery aspect of it is so good. Having not read the book, I could see why you'd be upset by Amy's downgrade. Sadly, for the purposes of the screen, specifically serialized television, it just works better to have recurring characters like Hasting put in even if it steps on interesting one-off characters. I'll be very excited for when you do Appointment With Death, but do take your time. I think you've touched on it already, but I'd be interested in your take on a more in-depth comparison. I think the Suchet version messes up the mystery but absolutely nails the tone the story ought to have while the film version replicates the mystery well enough, but utterly botches the tone. It's a strange situation.
I like your idea very much. Myself, I found the solution make little sense because bluntly the husband is an obvious suspect and there is no reason to suspect anyone else! Not really! Given that he found her body, this makes him look even more suspicious.
John Curran states in The Secret Notebooks of AC that the problem with this mystery is the fact that its resolution relies on a clue impossible to figure out: that one of the characters is married to another.
Thanks, enjoyed as always. Agree with the critics here and elsewhere that the “meet the new husband, same as the old husband” twist was just rubbish to swallow. And your suggestion to drop poirot from a potential remake is intriguing.
Great as always, Myles. 💙 I would love to hear your thoughts on/see a video about Lord Edgware Dies and how the tv adaptation doesn’t quite play fair with us viewers. (The dinner party scene before the murder)
I figured it out when I read the book before the murder was even committed. I said to myself while I was reading it, if I was Agatha Christie this person would be the killer and for this reason. I figured out the who and the why but not the how.
Also, I had no problem with Louise not recognizing her husband and being fooled into marrying him again. A person's appearance can change over the years to the point where he or she are unrecognizable. I found that out through personal experience.
Yes I told the police recently about one of my neighbours who was a very good friend of mine who died last summer. His name was Karl Derek Jones There are witnesses. It is not speculative suspicion. The police 🚔 were supposed to visit me. They did not.
A little trivia.... the one who plays the wife is the same actress as the wife of the American man framed in the episode that takes place in Chinatown. Both her performances have terrible British-playing-American accents imo
The casting is the worst aspect - if the husband's appearance had changed drastically it might just be possible but the killer has a forehead so low he looks neanderthal ❤❤
It should be made clear that the murderer was in a train crash and his body was misidentified. His appearance was changed drastically by the accident. His once and future wife met him many years after his "death", so I think her not recognizing him is possible.
with most of your analysis. About the Mercado'S , it is too much and wrong casting. Personally, I would have preferred a version of the book closer to the book, with the nurse with a big part, AND Poirot as he is in the book. I really enjoy this book.
Thing is it had been several years since she last saw him and he was disfigured from the train wreck and plus he grew a beard but before he was clean shaven.
I think the premise may be more believable today with modern advances in 'plastic surgery'. Today, it would be possible to 'transform' a person into an unrecognizable form. As for more 'intimate' aspects, one can imagine that she found them to be 'similar' to her 1st husband and that endeared him to her. Remember, this is Christie, so there is a psychological aspect to most of the details.
totally boring childish plots with simpleton endings. Poirot is a horrible narcissist, insecure having to reenforce his insecurities. The same in each story, they may read ok, but a live story is a mess. Always using cheap copouts for social hangups ie: drugs, always drugs instead of alcohol...The series ran in the 80's ad 90's, when cocaine was popular and Poirot never missed a cheap shot at it...instead of Gin...wouldn't want to offend the British Establishment....Shallow, dull and simple minded actors the program was doomed by tired writing and ancient plots..
'boring, childish plots, simpleton ending' Boring? Well, if that's how you felt, that's unfortunate. Childish? I'm not exactly sure what about the plot is childish -- apart from the killer's behaviour, which is certainly childish, like most murderers, stubbornly obsessive and possessive. Simpleton ending? Not sure what you mean here, but the solution is one of the least simple in the entire whodunit oeuvre. The murderer nearly died twice, spent decades building a fake identity and fake career, wrote threatening letters to her ex, remarried her under his pseudonym, then planned to kill her by tormenting her with a mask at the window, hiring a nurse weeks in advance to eventually establish his alibi, and finally killed her by getting her to open the window then from the roof dropping a large stone on a rope onto her head.
Got to say, if you suspect someone of murder - tell someone- people in mystery books never do and end up the next victim
Ashamed to admit it, but the "dead face" in this movie scared me as a kid. Something about it just stuck with me.
Also, let somebody (not you Kenneth!) make “The Moving Finger” with Miss Marple have as much screen time as she did in the original book
Oh hey, it's the episode that gave me a pathological fear of masks and hydrochloric acid! I always remembered this one very vividly but didn't know what the title was.
I recall reading this novel and beeing suprised that Poirot wasn't there in the beginning. When he appears later it feels like he has been forced to come and solve the story. Our lady lead could've easily solved the case by herself. But it was good to have "Papa-Poirot" as backup. It would be cool to see her as the main lead, though =)
Thanks for this new installment and I agree absolutely about Nurse Latheran being an interesting enough character to handle this on her own. What really bothered me in the book was the preposterous idea a woman could be married to someone she already had been married to without noticing it! They were not royalty living in different castles but shared their day to day lives not to mention a bed as well. How can you not recognize the feel and smell of your own husband???
That's bother me too, how on earth she didn't recognise her death husband? Did he have plastic surgery ?She hate him to the point she forgot his voice/face/smell/habit ? Well Christie tend to make solutions out of nowhere . Still love her books .
I feel the same. 'Murder in Mesopotamia' and 'Death on the Nile' are two Christie's novels of which the murders are hard to believe. In this story, it is hard to believe a wife doesn't recognize an ex husband, while in 'Death on the Nile' there should be a much simpler way to kill the victim in her own house (where the culprit could control the environment) rather than do it in public setting out of the country.
@@tiararoxeanne1318Some people aren’t that intelligent or use their common sense 😏
Does anyone know the name of the episode where there was a mask dangled down onto someones window?
@@Infinite-slopsThe one this video is talking about.
Agatha Christie also had the mystery solved by a recovering fighter pilot in the "Moving Finger". Miss Marple gets brought in about 2/3 of the story in. I really liked that one as I liked the characters.
There’s also Jane Grey in Death in the Clouds
11:57 "Someday, a really good filmmaker... NO!" That's just plain funny.
Two in less than 2 weeks! Nice!
I really enjoy this adaptation, but it might just be because the locked-room mystery aspect of it is so good. Having not read the book, I could see why you'd be upset by Amy's downgrade. Sadly, for the purposes of the screen, specifically serialized television, it just works better to have recurring characters like Hasting put in even if it steps on interesting one-off characters.
I'll be very excited for when you do Appointment With Death, but do take your time. I think you've touched on it already, but I'd be interested in your take on a more in-depth comparison. I think the Suchet version messes up the mystery but absolutely nails the tone the story ought to have while the film version replicates the mystery well enough, but utterly botches the tone. It's a strange situation.
These videos make my day. Any chance we could get a Thunderdome battle for 4:50_from Paddington?
Great, I've read this one! I wish I could watch more of your reviews, but you always give away the ending.
I like your idea very much.
Myself, I found the solution make little sense because bluntly the husband is an obvious suspect and there is no reason to suspect anyone else! Not really! Given that he found her body, this makes him look even more suspicious.
John Curran states in The Secret Notebooks of AC that the problem with this mystery is the fact that its resolution relies on a clue impossible to figure out: that one of the characters is married to another.
Can't recall if I posted that Joan Hickson played Nurse Leatheran in a 1940s production (on stage?)
Thanks, enjoyed as always. Agree with the critics here and elsewhere that the “meet the new husband, same as the old husband” twist was just rubbish to swallow. And your suggestion to drop poirot from a potential remake is intriguing.
Great as always, Myles. 💙
I would love to hear your thoughts on/see a video about Lord Edgware Dies and how the tv adaptation doesn’t quite play fair with us viewers. (The dinner party scene before the murder)
I know exactly what you mean. :)
I’d like to see a production done by Hugh Laurie.
I had heard that David Suchet became ill during the filming due to the intense heat.
"David emmet" cracked me up. I have often wondered is Carey deliberatetly dressed as indy?
Imho the novel is entertaining but the resolution is the most laughable of all Christies.
If only they had put this into the same season as Death in the Clouds.
I figured it out when I read the book before the murder was even committed. I said to myself while I was reading it, if I was Agatha Christie this person would be the killer and for this reason. I figured out the who and the why but not the how.
Also, I had no problem with Louise not recognizing her husband and being fooled into marrying him again. A person's appearance can change over the years to the point where he or she are unrecognizable. I found that out through personal experience.
Why do you keep putting Harrison Ford's image in the video?
Because the character isn't featured in the film version, he's used as a stand in, which also goes for the 4th Doctor and Jack Black too
Yes I told the police recently about one of my neighbours who was a very good friend of mine who died last summer.
His name was Karl Derek Jones
There are witnesses.
It is not speculative suspicion.
The police 🚔 were supposed to visit me.
They did not.
A little trivia.... the one who plays the wife is the same actress as the wife of the American man framed in the episode that takes place in Chinatown. Both her performances have terrible British-playing-American accents imo
You make an excellent case for your movie idea but can we change the hydrochloric acid murder? That upset me.
The casting is the worst aspect - if the husband's appearance had changed drastically it might just be possible but the killer has a forehead so low he looks neanderthal ❤❤
It should be made clear that the murderer was in a train crash and his body was misidentified. His appearance was changed drastically by the accident. His once and future wife met him many years after his "death", so I think her not recognizing him is possible.
I disagree with your analysis 👎🏻
12:00 Rian Johnson sucks. I pray he never gets a hold of any Poirot stories or any stories by that matter.
I agree
with most of your analysis. About the Mercado'S , it is too much and wrong casting. Personally, I would have preferred a version of the book closer to the book, with the nurse with a big part, AND Poirot as he is in the book. I really enjoy this book.
She didn't recognize her own husband? It's hard not to sprain an eyeball with all the eyerolls induced by Dame Agatha's plots.
Thing is it had been several years since she last saw him and he was disfigured from the train wreck and plus he grew a beard but before he was clean shaven.
I think the premise may be more believable today with modern advances in 'plastic surgery'. Today, it would be possible to 'transform' a person into an unrecognizable form. As for more 'intimate' aspects, one can imagine that she found them to be 'similar' to her 1st husband and that endeared him to her. Remember, this is Christie, so there is a psychological aspect to most of the details.
Really??? And he now has a new way to disfigure his loving making too?....Your obvious very young and inexperienced. @@suzie_lovescats
@@pearly872I don’t know if you noticed but they had separate bedrooms 😂 they didn’t even sleep in the same room let alone the same bed 🤪
I wouldn't take out Poirot. Just give him a smaller rol. And take out Hastings.
totally boring childish plots with simpleton endings. Poirot is a horrible narcissist, insecure having to reenforce his insecurities. The same in each story, they may read ok, but a live story is a mess. Always using cheap copouts for social hangups ie: drugs, always drugs instead of alcohol...The series ran in the 80's ad 90's, when cocaine was popular and Poirot never missed a cheap shot at it...instead of Gin...wouldn't want to offend the British Establishment....Shallow, dull and simple minded actors the program was doomed by tired writing and ancient plots..
You’re in the minority there 🤨
'boring, childish plots, simpleton ending'
Boring? Well, if that's how you felt, that's unfortunate.
Childish? I'm not exactly sure what about the plot is childish -- apart from the killer's behaviour, which is certainly childish, like most murderers, stubbornly obsessive and possessive.
Simpleton ending? Not sure what you mean here, but the solution is one of the least simple in the entire whodunit oeuvre. The murderer nearly died twice, spent decades building a fake identity and fake career, wrote threatening letters to her ex, remarried her under his pseudonym, then planned to kill her by tormenting her with a mask at the window, hiring a nurse weeks in advance to eventually establish his alibi, and finally killed her by getting her to open the window then from the roof dropping a large stone on a rope onto her head.