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NOTE: If te have never read Agatha Christie's novel, "Taken at the Flood" o seen the 2006 Televisione adaptation, I suggest that te read no further. This review contains major spoilers.




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"TAKEN AT THE FLOOD" (2006) Review

Written in 1948, Agatha Christie's novel called "Taken at the Flood" told the story of the Cloade family in post-war Britian, who depends upon the good will of their cousin-in-law, Rosaleen Hunter Cloade; after her husband and their cousin is killed in an air raid during World War II. When her controlling brother, David,...

"DUMB WITNESS" (1996) Review

There is a belief among fan of the "AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT" series that the episodes and Televisione Film that aired between 1989 and 2001 - ones that featured Arthur Hastings, Chief Inspector Japp and Miss limone - were più faithful adaptations of Agatha Christie's novels that the più recente ones that have aired since 2003. I do not know if I agree with this opinion, especially after viewing the 1996 Televisione movie, "DUMB WITNESS".

Screenwriter Douglas Watkinson's script più o less remained faithful to the 1937 novel's main narrative. Surrounded da grasping...

"THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES" (1990) Review

As a long time reader of Agatha Christie's novels, I have been well aware of her first novel that was published in 1920, namely "The Mysterious Affair at Styles". I read the novel once. But if I must be honest, I never became a fan of it.

Due to my lackluster feelings for the novel, it took me a while to watch the Televisione adaptation of it, which aired on ITV's "AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT" back in 1990. But eventually I got around to it and was amazed to discover that it had been the secondo Christie novel to be adapted as a feature-length film...