The problem is, and I really do hate to say that there are problems, but for a film that is less than two hours long, there are simply too many characters involved. Suchet, as usual, is the pitch perfect Poirot, and all of the other players play their roles with distinction. The exterior scenes were filmed in Tunisia, a very worthy stand-in for that other war-torn part of the world, and are beautifully done, if not out-and-out stunning. Strangely, though, the window is locked and the only access to her room was a door that was under watch at all times.
She is found dead in her room beside her bed, having been hit in the head by the old stand-by, a blunt instrument. The nurse’s patient, the new wife of the expedition’s leader, is the primary victim. There are a few other relatively minor changes and enhancements, but for the better, I can’t swear to it. In the book the story was largely told from the point of view of Nurse Leatheran (Georgina Sowerby), but in this made-for-TV adaptation her role has been cut down considerably. In this film Agatha Christie’s famed Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is in what is known as Iraq today, visiting an archaeological dig, and so is his good friend Captain Hastings, although he was not in the novel. Based on the novel by Agatha Christie (1936). (Season 8, Episode 2.) David Suchet (Hercule Poirot), Hugh Fraser (Captain Hastings), Ron Berglas, Barbara Barnes, Dinah Stabb, Georgina Sowerby, Jeremy Turner-Welch, Pandora Clifford, Christopher Hunter, Christopher Bowen, Iain Mitchell. “Murder in Mesopotamia.” An episode of Agatha Christie’s Poirot.
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