There Are Only 2 Unsolved Murders? Never to Fear - Hercule Poirot Is Here

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Ed_Bagley]Ed Bagley

Hercule Poirot: The Mystery of The Blue Train - 3 Stars (Good)

The Mystery of The Blue train finds Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) boarding the train for the Riviera, the Mediterranean coastal region from Marseilles in France to La Spezia in Italy, noted for its beauty and climate, and the site of many resorts.

Katherine Grey (Georgina Rylance), a young English woman who has recently inherited a fortune, is also on board the trip to Nice.

She meets Ruth Kettering (Jamie Murray), an American heiress with marital problems and the owner of a world-famous ruby. Kettering is accompanied by her husband, her lover and her maid.

Rufus Van Aldin (Elliott Gould of MASH fame) is Kettering's father. He thinks both his daughter's husband and her lover are scoundrels. Added to the cast are some of the young woman's money-grubbing distant relatives.

What happens is hardly surprising. Ruth Kettering is brutally murdered in her compartment and her ruby is stolen. Poirot, of course, sorts this mess out and finds the killer.

There are reports that Agatha Christie felt this book, which became a made-for-television movie, was not her best work. I felt The Mystery of The Blue Train was no better or worse than many of her other works, the majority of which I consider good.

Hercule Poirot: Death in the Clouds - 2 Stars (Average)

Death in the Clouds is the first film adaptation of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot series that I consider an average effort.

This movie gives us a murder in the sky as a ruthless blackmailer is killed by a poison-tipped dart during a flight full of likely suspects. The victim is Madame Giselle (Jenny Downham) who has a troop of people ready to kill her.

Madame Giselle is privy to too much insider information that could embarrass or destroy the careers of her money targets.

I found this script to be over the top with simply too many suspects and too much meaningless detail. It is the only Hercule Poirot mystery that made me annoyed with the story line. The method of the killing is really hard to believe, and therefore I give this film an average rating.

Copyright © 2007 Ed Bagley

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