Hercule Poirot (with Peter Ustinov)
Peter Ustinov played Poirot a total of six times, starting with
Death on the Nile (1978). He reprised the role in
Evil Under the Sun (1982) and
Appointment With Death (1988).
Christie was less sanguine about Ustinov's portrayal, given that Poirot, written as short, slim, and with coal-black hair, bore little resemblance to the tall, heavy, grey-haired Ustinov. When Christie's daughter, Rosalind Hicks, observed to Ustinov that Poirot did not look like him, Ustinov quipped "He does now!"
He appeared again as Poirot in three made-for-television movies:
Thirteen at Dinner (1985),
Dead Man's Folly (1986), and
Murder in Three Acts (1986). The first of these was based on Lord Edgware Dies and was made by Warner Brothers. It also starred Faye Dunaway and David Suchet as Inspector Japp, just before he himself played the famous detective. (Ironically, it is reputed that David Suchet highlights his performance as Japp to be "possibly the worst performance of [his] career.")
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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001811/bio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercule_Poirot |
Death On The Nile
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077413/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_on_the_Nile_(1978_film)
http://www.amazon.com/Death-Nile-Peter-Ustinov/dp/B000059LGC |
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http://rapidshare.com/files/143457375/ACHP-DOTN1.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/143457962/ACHP-DOTN1.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/143458617/ACHP-DOTN1.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/143459168/ACHP-DOTN1.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/143459772/ACHP-DOTN1.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/143460335/ACHP-DOTN1.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/143461165/ACHP-DOTN1.part7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/143461504/ACHP-DOTN1.part8.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/143462186/ACHP-DOTN2.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/143462788/ACHP-DOTN2.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/143463419/ACHP-DOTN2.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/143464385/ACHP-DOTN2.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/143465190/ACHP-DOTN2.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/143465811/ACHP-DOTN2.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/143466453/ACHP-DOTN2.part7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/143466893/ACHP-DOTN2.part8.rar |
Evil Under The Sun
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083908/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Evil-Under-Sun-Peter-Ustinov/dp/B00004RP47
http://www.answers.com/topic/evil-under-the-sun-1982-film?cat=entertainment |
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http://rapidshare.com/files/120339755/ACHP-EUTS1.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120340191/ACHP-EUTS1.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120341123/ACHP-EUTS1.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120341523/ACHP-EUTS1.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120342537/ACHP-EUTS1.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120345588/ACHP-EUTS1.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120346017/ACHP-EUTS1.part7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120346273/ACHP-EUTS1.part8.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120346648/ACHP-EUTS2.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120347068/ACHP-EUTS2.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120347488/ACHP-EUTS2.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120347832/ACHP-EUTS2.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120348234/ACHP-EUTS2.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120348626/ACHP-EUTS2.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120349018/ACHP-EUTS2.part7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120349260/ACHP-EUTS2.part8.rar |
Appointment With Death
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094669/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appointment_With_Death_(film)
http://www.amazon.com/Appointment-Death-Region-Peter-Ustinov/dp/B000CIWXHI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1220815476&sr=1-1 |
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http://rapidshare.com/files/143452369/ACHP-AWD.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/143452998/ACHP-AWD.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/143453594/ACHP-AWD.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/143454212/ACHP-AWD.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/143455129/ACHP-AWD.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/143455801/ACHP-AWD.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/143456430/ACHP-AWD.part7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/143456736/ACHP-AWD.part8.rar |
Thirteen At Dinner
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090156/
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=20227&atid=0&category=overview
http://www.mtv.com/movies/movie/50349/moviemain.jhtml |
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http://rapidshare.com/files/120353408/ACHP-TAD.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120353796/ACHP-TAD.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120354213/ACHP-TAD.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120355013/ACHP-TAD.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120355378/ACHP-TAD.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120355771/ACHP-TAD.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120356189/ACHP-TAD.part7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120356551/ACHP-TAD.part8.rar |
Dead Man's Folly
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090914/
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE5DD153EF93BA35752C0A960948260
http://dvd.ciao.co.uk/Dead_Man_s_Folly_DVD__Review_5559389 |
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http://rapidshare.com/files/120321070/ACHP-DMF.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120321541/ACHP-DMF.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120322036/ACHP-DMF.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120322453/ACHP-DMF.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120322845/ACHP-DMF.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120323289/ACHP-DMF.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120323682/ACHP-DMF.part7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120323938/ACHP-DMF.part8.rar |
Murder In Three Acts
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091572/
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=20215&category=Overview
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/123573/Murder-in-Three-Acts/overview |
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http://rapidshare.com/files/120350065/ACHP-MITA.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120350435/ACHP-MITA.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120350881/ACHP-MITA.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120351696/ACHP-MITA.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120352047/ACHP-MITA.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120352379/ACHP-MITA.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120352787/ACHP-MITA.part7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120352990/ACHP-MITA.part8.rar |
These six are all the Christie-based films that Peter Ustinov has filmed and all of them are my own rips and uploads. I hope you will appreciate the effort as these are quite rare.
For another 10 films based on
Agatha Christie novels, check here:
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| http://www.warez-bb.org/viewtopic.php?t=1787708&highlight= |
For another 4 films with
Margaret Rutherford in the role of
Miss Marple, check here:
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| http://www.warez-bb.org/viewtopic.php?t=1587277&highlight= |
Enjoy!
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