Agatha ChristieFilmography

The Great Alibi

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Miou-Miou, Lambert Wilson, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Pierre Arditi, Anne Consigny

Synopsis: A man is shot dead, but is the woman with the gun really the killer? That's the all-important question in this thriller from France. Henri Pages (Pierre Arditi) is a successful politician who with his wife Elaine (Miou-Miou) has invited an eclectic group of guests to their country home for a Read More

Towards Zero

Crew: Book Author

Actors: François Morel, Danielle Darrieux, Melvil Poupaud, Laura Smet, Chiara Mastroianni

Synopsis: By the Pricking of My Thumbs director Pascal Thomas returns to the written word of Agatha Christie for inspiration, and the result is a lively whodunit centering on a deadly family gathering and the exquisite sleuthing skills of hyper-perceptive crime-fighter Superintendent Bataille. For the past Read More

By the Pricking of My Thumbs

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Actors: Catherine Frot, André Dussollier, Geneviève Bujold, Laurent Terzieff, Valérie Kaprisky

Agatha Christie's Marple [TV Series]

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Actors: Geraldine McEwan

Synopsis: Portrayed on previous occasions by such actresses as Margaret Rutherford, Helen Hayes, Angela Lansbury, and Joan Hickson, Agatha Christie's indomitable amateur sleuth Miss Jane Marple reappeared in the form of Geraldine McEwan on this TV series, produced for the United Kingdom's ITV1. Endeavoring Read More

Poirot: Murder in Mesopotamia

Crew: Book Author

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: Agatha Christie's Belgian detective solves another case in the A&E mystery Poirot: Murder in Mesopotamia. Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) takes a trip to the Middle East to visit his old friend, Captain Hastings (Hugh Fraser). While he is vacationing, Poirot is asked to investigate when an Read More

Poirot: Evil Under The Sun

Crew: Book Author

Actors: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran, Michael Higgs

Synopsis: First filmed as a theatrical feature in 1982, Agatha Christie's 1940 mystery novel Evil Under the Sun was remade as a two-hour episode of the off-and-on British TV series Poirot. David Suchet is back as the infuriatingly brilliant and fussy Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, who after suffering a Read More

Murder on the Orient Express

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Previously filmed by director Sidney Lumet in 1974, Agatha Christie's classic mystery novel Murder on the Orient Express was updated from the 1930s to the early 21st century in this made-for-TV remake. To be sure, the ineffable, insufferable Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (here played by Alfred Molina Read More

Poirot: The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Crew: Book Author

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: Agatha Christie introduced one of her most famous characters, idiosyncratic Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, in her novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and David Suchet, who has played Poirot in a number of films produced for British television, takes the character back to his beginnings in Read More

Poirot: The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim

Crew: Book Author

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: After Inspector Japp is called upon to investigate the strange disappearance of a wealthy banker, Poirot (David Suchet) makes a five-quid wager with Japp that he can solve the mystery without even leaving his flat. After Hastings is dispatched on a number of bizarre errands, Poirot figures out the Read More

Poirot: The Plymouth Express

Crew: Book Author

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: Poirot is reluctantly persuaded by an Australian mining magnate to investigate a French count who happens to be the latest suitor of the magnate's daughter. Together with Hastings, Poirot observes the count at tea with the young woman, and watches as the count shows her some bearer bonds he claims Read More

Poirot: The Million Dollar Bond Robbery

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Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: Poirot (David Suchet) is called in to investigate a bank manager's close call with a hit-and-run driver. The manager, it turns out, has been chosen by the bank to carry a $1 million in Liberty bonds to New York on the maiden voyage of the Queen Mary. Someone is obviously out to stop him, and it's Read More

Poirot: The Adventure of the Cheap Flat

Crew: Book Author

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: When an arrogant FBI agent who has come to London to investigate the case of a nightclub singer-turned-spy dismisses Poirot (David Suchet) as a "gumshoe," Poirot is rather unimpressed. He finds himself getting involved in the case after meeting a couple who seem to have gotten a Read More

Poirot: Wasps' Nest

Crew: Book Author

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: At a garden party he is attending with Hastings and Japp, Poirot (David Suchet) meets a young writer who happens to be the son of an old friend. The young man introduces Poirot to his fiancée. While jokingly reading the tea leaves in the young woman's cup, the sleuth sees something disturbing. Read More

Poirot: The Lost Mine

Crew: Book Author

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: During a Monopoly match with Hastings, Poirot is interrupted by an aristocratic banker to investigate the disappearance of a client. The client, who was supposed to sell the bank a map to a lucrative silver mine, is found murdered, and a young stockbroker is implicated in the crime. Poirot works Read More

The Pale Horse

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Actors: Colin Buchanan, Jayne Ashbourne, Hermione Norris, Leslie Phillips, Michael Byrne

Synopsis: Agatha Christie's super sleuth Mark Easterbrook gets involved with a trio of contemporary witches while looking into the death of a priest. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Poirot: Death in the Clouds

Crew: Book Author

Actors: David Suchet, Philip Jackson

Synopsis: Belgium's greatest export since the waffle, master detective Hercule Poirot is on the case once again in this made-for-TV feature adapted from the classic novel by Agatha Christie. A devious blackmailer is murdered in the middle of an airline flight, and it's all but impossible to separate the Read More

Poirot: The ABC Murders

Crew: Book Author

Actors: David Suchet, Hugh Frasier, Philip Jackson

Synopsis: David Suchet stars as the fastidious Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in this made-for-TV adaptation of the classic mystery by Agatha Christie. A killer is on the loose who is toying with the great sleuth by sending him a series of letters in which he announces when and where his next crime will Read More

Poirot: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Crew: Book Author

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: Agatha Christie's popular sleuth Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) goes after the murderer of a dentist in the full-length feature One, Two, Buckle My Shoe. Poirot and Inspector Japp (Philip Jackson) investigate a murder and find the connection to a high-profile political figure. After finding the Read More

The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Joan Hickson, Claire Bloom

Synopsis: The final installment of the British mystery series based on the books by Agatha Christie, Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side first aired in 1992. Miss Jane Marple (Joan Hickson) investigates the poisoning death of a party guest at the home of film actress Marina Gregg (Claire Read More

Poirot: How Does Your Garden Grow?

Crew: Book Author

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: Agatha Christie's fastidious Belgian detective is on the trail of evildoers once again in this made-for-TV mystery. Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) is attending a flower show where a pink rose is to be named after him when he's given a packet of seeds by an older woman. Poirot is later called upon Read More

Poirot: The Veiled Lady

Crew: Book Author

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: Following a jewelry heist, Poirot (David Suchet) is approached by an enigmatic veiled lady who requests his help in thwarting a blackmailer. His investigative tactics place him briefly on the wrong side of the law, and Poirot is thrilled to learn his fame as a detective has reached the criminal Read More

Poirot: The Kidnapped Prime Minister

Crew: Book Author

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: Belgium's most famous detective comes to the rescue of his adopted British homeland in this mystery based on the novel by Agatha Christie. The Prime Minister of England has arrived in France for a major international summit meeting when he's kidnapped. Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) is called in to Read More

Poirot: The Cornish Mystery

Crew: Book Author

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: In a small Cornish town, a wife suspects her dentist husband of slowly poisoning her because he's got the hots for his young, blond assistant. When Poirot (David Suchet) steps in to investigate, he finds that the wife is partially correct, but solving the real mystery is more complicated than it Read More

Poirot: Double Sin

Crew: Book Author

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: Hastings is surprised when Poirot (David Suchet) announces his intention to retire and asks Hastings to accompany him on a trip to the seaside. En route, the two make the acquaintance of a young woman who discovers some valuable antiques missing from her possession. Hastings thinks that he's found Read More

Poirot: The Adventure of the Western Star

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Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: In this whodunit based on a novel by Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) is delighted to be entertaining a lovely Belgian film star one evening, while Chief Inspector Japp (Philip Jackson) is hot on the trail of a master jewel thief. When the actress confesses she's been receiving Read More

Ten Little Indians

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Donald Pleasence, Frank Stallone, Sarah Maur-Thorp, Herbert Lom, Brenda Vaccaro

Synopsis: Ten Little Indians, the classic mystery by Agatha Christie, is again adapted, with enjoyable results. The setting of the now familiar mystery is moved to Africa, where the ten guests of a mysterious host are killed one by one as they travel on safari. None of the guests, played with great fun by a Read More

The Man in the Brown Suit

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Based on a 1924 mystery novel by Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit was the eighth of Warner Bros. Television's Christie-inspired TV movies. Stephanie Zimbalist stars as an American tourist in Cairo (with Spain standing in for Egypt). She runs across a mysterious murder, and an odd Read More

Poirot: Four and Twenty Blackbirds

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Actors: David Suchet

Poirot: Third Floor Flat

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: Just as Poirot is feeling at a loose end because he has no case to work on, there is a killing in the very apartment building where he is staying and he is soon in the thick of another investigation. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More

Poirot: Adventure of Johnnie Waverly

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: David Suchet

Poirot: Adventure of the Clapham Cook

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: Agatha Christie's creation Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a cook, but this is only the first of many strange events in a trail that ultimately leads to murder. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More

Poirot: Murder in the Mews

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: Poirot investigates a case that at first appears to be a suicide, but he soon begins to suspect foul play, although proving it is far from easy. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More

Poirot: The King of Clubs

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: When a theatrical impresario is murdered, the prime suspect is the young starlet he had taken under his wing, but Poirot suspects there is more to the case than meets the eye. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More

Poirot: The Dream

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Synopsis: A leading businessman consults Hercule Poirot when he begins to have terrifying nightmares and finds that they have a more tangible significance as far as his well-being is concerned. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More

Poirot: Incredible Theft

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Actors: David Suchet

Poirot: Triangle at Rhodes

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: David Suchet

Poirot: Problem at Sea

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: David Suchet

Appointment with Death

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, John Gielgud, Piper Laurie

Synopsis: In this mystery, Peter Ustinov reprises the role of Hercule Poirot, the fussy and flower-tending detective from Belgium created by Agatha Christie. In 1937, Mrs. Emily Boynton (Piper Laurie) is on an archeological dig in Palestine; she inherited the wealth of her recently deceased husband and Read More

A Murder Is Announced

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Joan Hickson

Synopsis: Joan Hickson stars as Miss Jane Marple in this made-for-TV adaptation of one of Agatha Christie's classic murder mystery tales. An odd advertisement appears in the Chipping Cleghorne Gazette, which announces that a murder will take place on October 5 at 7 p.m. at a cottage in Little Paddocks. Read More

At Bertram's Hotel

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Joan Hickson

Synopsis: Part of the British mystery series based on the books by Agatha Christie, Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel was first aired in 1986. Miss Jane Marple (Joan Hickman) takes a holiday at London's prestigious Bertram's Hotel. She senses criminal activity when Lady Bess Sedgwick (Caroline Blakiston) Read More

Murder by the Book

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Synopsis: In this interesting mystery, famed novelist Agatha Christie has just decided to kill off her popular character, the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in her latest novel Curtain. Just as she is about to do so, the detective comes to call. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Pocketful of Rye

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Joan Hickson

Synopsis: Part of the British mystery series based on the books by Agatha Christie, Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye was first aired in 1985. The body of wealthy tyrant Rex Fortescue (Timothy West) is found and presumably poisoned. After his wife turns up dead, the maid Gladys Martin (Annette Badland) takes Read More

Ordeal by Innocence

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Christopher Plummer, Ian McShane, Sarah Miles, Diana Quick

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Agatha Christie and set in the late 1950s, this unevenly told film starts when Dr. Arthur Calgary (Donald Sutherland) comes back to England after two years on an Antarctic expedition and discovers that the man he is searching for has been executed for murder. At the beginning Read More

The Body in the Library

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Actors: Joan Hickson

Synopsis: The first installment of the British mystery series based on the books by Agatha Christie, Miss Marple: The Body in the Library was first aired in 1984. In the village of St. Mary Mead, Miss Jane Marple (Joan Hickson) investigates the home of Colonel Arthur (Moray Watson) and Mrs. Dolly Bantry (Gwen Watford Read More

A Caribbean Mystery

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Maurice Evans, Helen Hayes

Synopsis: Helen Hayes plays Agatha Christie's amateur sleuth Miss Jane Marple in A Caribbean Mystery. Recuperating from an illness at a resort in the Bahamas, Miss Marple makes the acquaintance of a genial British major (Maurice Evans). When her new friend is murdered, Miss M takes on the case herself. She Read More

Evil Under the Sun

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Colin Blakely, Nicholas Clay, James Mason

Synopsis: Peter Ustinov makes his second appearance as Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in this adaptation of the popular Agatha Christie mystery. When noted stage star Arlena Marshall (Diana Rigg) is found murdered while visiting a posh island resort, Poirot is called upon to find the culprit, but given Read More

The Seven Dials Mystery

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Synopsis: This lighthearted Agatha Christie whodunit concerns a group of friends who spend the weekend at The Chimney's, a gorgeous old palatial estate,. When one individual fails to awaken the morning after the guests arrive, and another mysterious death follows, Lady Eileen 'Bundle' Brent (Cheryl Read More

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime [TV Series]

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: James Warwick, Francesca Annis

Synopsis: This sporadically telecast British series was based on the "Tuppence and Tommy" stories by Agatha Christie. James Warwick and Francesca Annis starred as upper-class couple Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, who never seemed to go anywhere without stumbling over a mystery or murder. Most often, Tommy Read More

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: The Sunningdale Mystery

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: During the 1985-86 season of PBS' Mystery anthology, American audiences were treated to the British-produced adventures of Agatha Christie's society sleuths Tuppence and Tommy. Originally shown under the blanket title Partners in Crime, these sprightly 60-minute puzzlers starred Francesca Annis as Read More

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: The Clergyman's Daughter

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: This British made-for-TV murder mystery, based on an Agatha Christie story, chronicles the exploits of Tommy and Tuppence who are hired by the clergyman's daughter to look into the recent murders at the family's country house. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: The Man in the Mist

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: Man in the Mist is another episode from the British "Partners in Crime" TV series. This effort was telecast in the US as "Tuppence and Tommy", in reference to sleuthing married couple played by Francesca Annis and James Warwick. This time, Tuppence and Tommy Beresford are vacationing in an Read More

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: The Ambassador's Boots

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Affectionately reminiscent of the old Thin Man pictures, the British comedy-mystery series Partners in Crime starred James Warwick and Francesca Annis as husband-and-wife private eyes. The series was telecast in America as Tommy and Tuppence, a component of PBS' Mystery anthology. In The Read More

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: The Affair of the Pink Pearl

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Synopsis: Based on Agatha Christie's short story series, the P.I. couple of Tommy and Tuppence have 24 hours to discover who stole a priceless pink pearl. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: The Crackler

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Synopsis: In this British made for TV murder mystery, based on an Agatha Christie, a husband and wife seek out a gang of forgers who do their work amongst the upper echelons of society. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: Finessing the King

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Synopsis: Based on an Agatha Christie mystery, this made for British TV story has two private investigators, Tommy and Tuppence, led by a mysterious newspaper notice to a masquerade ball. As in all Christie vehicles, you can be assured there is a murder to be solved. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: The House of Lurking Death

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Synopsis: Adaptation of a Agatha Christie story features a box of chocolates laced with arsenic at old maid Lois Hargreaves' home making her the number one suspect. (Made for British television) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: The Unbreakable Alibi

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: This made-for-TV mystery is based on the tales of Agatha Christie and centers upon Tommy and Tuppence Beresford who do a young man's bidding and help him prove that an Australian journalist with two seemingly airtight alibis is really the guilty party. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Mirror Crack'd

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Edward Fox, Rock Hudson, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: Angela Lansbury takes over the legacy of Margaret Rutherford as Agatha Christie's dogged sleuth Miss Marple in The Mirror Crack'd. The story takes place on a film set in a small British town in the 1950s. Elizabeth Taylor plays a washed-up actress trying to make a comeback but is plagued by a Read More

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: The Secret Adversary

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Synopsis: In this drama set in London during the 1920s, two amateur detectives try to find an important document before the enemy does. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: The Case of the Missing Lady

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Synopsis: This mystery is based on an Agatha Christie novel. It follows Tommy and Tuppence as they search for the fiancee of a famed Arctic explorer who mysteriously disappeared. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Death on the Nile

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Lois Chiles, David Niven, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, Angela Lansbury

Synopsis: Peter Ustinov began his long association with the Hercule Poirot character of murder mystery novelist Agatha Christie with this lavish but financially disappointing follow-up to the popular Murder on the Orient Express (1974). During a luxurious pleasure cruise down the Nile aboard a lavish vessel Read More

And Then There Were None

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Oliver Reed, Elke Sommer, Richard Attenborough, Gert Fröbe, Stéphane Audran

Synopsis: An Italian-French-Spanish version of the much-filmed Agatha Christie story, this film is strangely set in Iran, not Great Britain. Ten guests are invited to a remote desert inn and informed that the mysterious host has described in a nursery rhyme how they will all die during the gathering. One by Read More

Murder on the Orient Express

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Actors: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Vanessa Redgrave, Martin Balsam

Synopsis: Like many of Agatha Christie's mysteries, Murder on the Orient Express is predicated on an actual event, in this case the Lindbergh kidnapping. In the movie, everyone on board the Orient Express seems to have concluded that hateful financier Ratchett (Richard Widmark) was behind the abduction and Read More

Endless Night

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: This mystery, adapted from an Agatha Christie story, tells the tale of an ambitious British chauffeur who marries his American employer, one of the richest women in the US and persuades her to buy a palatial country estate. She literally loves it to death and that is where all the real trouble Read More

The Alphabet Murders

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Actors: Margaret Rutherford, Tony Randall, Anita Ekberg, Robert Morley, Maurice Denham, Guy Rolfe

Synopsis: Released in Great Britain as The ABC Murders, The Alphabet Murders stars a well-disguised Tony Randall as Agatha Christie's brilliant, insufferable Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Unfortunately, director Frank Tashlin chooses to open the film with one of his Pirandelloian gimmicks by introducing Randall Read More

Ten Little Indians

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian, Leo Genn, Stanley Holloway

Synopsis: The third of many film and TV adaptations of the popular Agatha Christie novel And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians is the title of the American edition, the hit play, and most of the movies), this 1965 version moves the action from a remote island to an isolated ski resort and otherwise Read More

Murder Most Foul

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Andrew Cruickshank, Megs Jenkins, Dennis Price, Ralph Michael, James Bolam, Stringer Davis, Francesca Annis, Alison Seebohm, Terry Scott

Synopsis: Murder Most Foul represented Margaret Rutherford's third appearance as Agatha Christie's spinsterish sleuth Miss Marple. The film opens with Marple serving on a murder-trial jury. She forces a mistrial because she considers the accused to be innocent; to prove her theory, she traces the trail of Read More

Murder Ahoy

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Actors: Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, William Mervyn, Joan Benham, Stringer Davis

Synopsis: The last of Margaret Rutherford's "Miss Marple" films, Murder Ahoy is the only one of the series not based on an Agatha Christie original. The setting this time is a boat that has been purchased by a trusteeship to serve as a home for wayward kids. One of the trustees, Cecil Ffolly-Hardwicke (Henry Longhurst Read More

Murder at the Gallop

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Margaret Rutherford, Robert Morley, Flora Robson, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Stringer Davis

Synopsis: This is one of a series of competent murder mysteries directed by George Pollock based on the Agatha Christie character, Miss Marple. Margaret Rutherford stars as the grey-haired, wily sleuth who will not give up until all the pieces of a puzzle have been neatly put in place. This time around, an Read More

Murder, She Said

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Actors: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, James Robertson Justice, Charles "Bud" Tingwell

Synopsis: Dumpy, dough-faced British comedienne Margaret Rutherford was not precisely the physical type Agatha Christie had in mind for the prim, tweedish sleuth Miss Marple. Still, Rutherford's first "Marple" movie Murder, She Said did so well at the box office that there was no question she would continue Read More

The Spider's Web

Crew: Play Author

Synopsis: This mystery is based on a 1954 play by Agatha Christie. It tells the story of an ambassador's wife who must hide the corpse of her husband from his daughter. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ten Little Indians

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Agatha Christie's popular novel And Then There Were None (which isn't the original title of the novel, but it's easy to understand why the change was made) is the murder mystery this made-for-TV adaption is based upon. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Witness for the Prosecution

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Una O'Connor

Synopsis: Having just recovered from a heart attack, fabled British barrister Sir Wilfred Robards (Charles Laughton) has been ordered by his doctor to give up everything he holds dear-brandy, cigars and especially courtroom cases. Robards' already shaky resolve to follow doctor's orders flies out the window Read More

Studio One: They Came to Baghdad

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Love from a Stranger

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: John Hodiak, John Howard, Ann Richards, Isobel Elsom

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Agatha Christie and play by Frank Vosper, Love From a Stranger isn't quite as good as the 1937 version of the same property. This time, Sylvia Sidney and John Hodiak play the roles originally filled by Ann Harding and Basil Rathbone. Falling under the romantic spell of Read More

And Then There Were None

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young, June Duprez

Synopsis: Based on the classic novel by mystery author Agatha Christie that was later adapted as the Broadway hit Ten Little Indians , And Then There Were None begins with ten characters, each with a skeleton in his or her closet, on a remote island off the English coast. They soon realize that they have Read More

Love From a Stranger

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Ann Harding, Basil Rathbone, Binnie Hale, Bruce Seton, Jean Cadell

Synopsis: Love From a Stranger was adapted from a play by Frank Vosper--which, in turn, was based on a story by Agatha Christie (though you'd never know it from the print ads for this film, which reproduced Ms. Christie's name in microscopic typeset). Ann Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young Read More

Lord Edgeware Dies

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Austin Trevor

Synopsis: In this mystery, an adaptation of an Agatha Christie tale, the unflappable Poirot looks into the death of a wealthy nobleman. His avaricious young wife is the most obvious suspect, but Poirot proves that she is innocent and that someone else was behind the dastardly deed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Le Coffret De Laque

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Rene Alexandre, Maxime des Jardins, Marcel Vibert, Alice Field

Synopsis: Le Coffret de Laque (Lackered Box) was based on Agatha Christie's Black Coffee, previously filmed in England in 1931. Gaston Dupray stars as Christie's insufferably brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, here depicted along more comic lines than usual. The story gets under way at a weekend Read More

Alibi

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Austin Trevor, Franklin Dyall, Mercia Swinburne

Synopsis: No relation to the 1929 American crime melodrama of the same name, the British Alibi is based on Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, previously dramatized for the stage by Christie and Michael Morton. Austin Trevor stars as Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, he of the "little grey cells" Read More

Black Coffee

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Austin Trevor, Elizabeth Allan, Richard Cooper

Synopsis: The British Black Coffee starred Austin Trevor in one of his many appearances as Agatha Christie's pompous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Adapted from a Christie play, the film takes place during a house party in a rural British mansion. A famous but much-hated scientist is killed, and several Read More

The Passing of Mr. Quin

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Actors: Clifford Heatherley, Trilby Clark, Stewart Rome, Vivian Baron, Ursula Jeans