Poirot tries to prevent the kidnapping of a country squire's son. While his plan fails, all is not what it seems.Poirot tries to prevent the kidnapping of a country squire's son. While his plan fails, all is not what it seems.Poirot tries to prevent the kidnapping of a country squire's son. While his plan fails, all is not what it seems.
- Director
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- Clive Exton
- Agatha Christie(uncredited)
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- TriviaHastings' car is a Lagonda M45 T9 Rapide Open Tourer with the 4.5 litre engine. Lagonda was a marque of the Aston Martin Company.
- GoofsThe metric system is used here in 1935, but England did not adopt the metric system until 1962. For example, Poirot says there was a policeman 20 meters away. Captain Hastings says he drove at 80 which has to be km/hr because no ordinary passenger car could reach 80 MPH in 1935.
- Quotes
Miss Lemon: It's nearly complete, you see. My system.
Hercule Poirot: Ah.
Miss Lemon: Every one of your cases classified and cross-referenced five different ways.
Hercule Poirot: Five?
Miss Lemon: Oh, yes. In this cabinet, names of witnesses; in this, name of perpetrator, if known. Victim's trade or profession. Type of case: abduction, addiction, adultery - see also under marriage, bigamy - see also under marriage, bombs.
Hercule Poirot: See also under marriage?
- ConnectionsReferenced in OWV Updates: Multimedia Update (22/03/2016) (2016)
Agatha Christie wrote a grabber of a premise here, but one that also kind of leads the writer into a difficult spot: after all, if the child is in the company of several people at the critical time that the letters specify, how can he possibly be kidnapped? Only if one of those people does something that allows the kidnapping to happen, and as soon as you spot that person and his "mistake", you know who's behind it all, at least in part. As Poirot says to Hastings at the end, "it was obvious". Perhaps the main point of interest in this very early Poirot episode is to see how fully the 4 main actors (Suchet, Fraser, Jackson and Moran) have already adjusted to their roles. (**1/2)
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- Jan 13, 2008
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- Wrotham Park, Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, UK(Marcus Waverly's country home)
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- Runtime51 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1