The DVD comes with a bonus interview with the actor in which he talks about playing the Belgian sleuth. All the performances work but Suchet stands out particularly as Poirot. And in the children's flashbacks they tinted the shots in hazy colours to heighten the impression of the vagueness of the characters' recollections. He and Producer Margaret Mitchell elected to shoot the flashback scenes with hand held cameras in order to try and make the audience feel as if they were part of the film. It takes a few viewings to fully appreciate this one, but it is actually a highly imaginative adaptation of Christie's novel with sympathetic characters and directed with flair by Paul Unwin. Hercule Poirot is called in to re-investigate a fourteen year old murder case, in which a womanizing artist was poisoned and his wife hanged for the crime, by the daughter who is convinced of her mother's innocence.
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