The Lost Mine
- Episode aired Jan 21, 1990
- TV-14
- 50m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
1.6K
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When a Chinese businessman with a map to a long lost silver mine is found dead in Chinatown, Poirot must find the map and killer.When a Chinese businessman with a map to a long lost silver mine is found dead in Chinatown, Poirot must find the map and killer.When a Chinese businessman with a map to a long lost silver mine is found dead in Chinatown, Poirot must find the map and killer.
Chris Walker
- First Officer
- (as Christopher Walker)
- Director
- Writers
- Michael Baker
- David Renwick
- Agatha Christie(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe "war room" tracking the car for Scotland Yard is based on the RAF war rooms of WW2, right down to the cue sticks moving cars instead of airplanes.
- GoofsLord Pearson tells Poirot and Hastings that a lump of ore can be refined into "top grade twenty-four karat silver". But the karat is a unit of purity for gold, not other precious metals. Silver purity is measured in parts per thousand, with pure silver being 999.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Captain Hastings: Community Chest. You've won second prize in a beauty contest. Collect ten pounds.
Hercule Poirot: Thank you very much, Hastings. It would appear that skill plays but a little part in this game, hein?
Captain Hastings: It's all about skill. What to buy and when. Where to put your property.
- ConnectionsReferences George White's 1935 Scandals (1935)
Featured review
The ending makes this episode
A Chinese man arrives at a London hotel; he has with him the map to a long-considered "lost" mine, and he has agreed to sell the map to an English bank. But the next day he doesn't turn up at the time of the meeting; in fact, after a few hours, he turns up dead. The president of the bank asks Hercule Poirot for help.
Apart from the Oriental flavor (it's partly shot in London's Chinatown), and a brief look at Scotland Yard's methods in the 1930's, this is for the most part a rather trivial episode of the Poirot series. But it is saved at the end by the startling revelation of the killer's identity. Up until then, it's a ** out of 4, but the last 5 minutes make it a ***. One of the clues is so obvious in retrospect that you may feel like hitting your head on the wall if you miss it (and I did....miss it , I mean).
Apart from the Oriental flavor (it's partly shot in London's Chinatown), and a brief look at Scotland Yard's methods in the 1930's, this is for the most part a rather trivial episode of the Poirot series. But it is saved at the end by the startling revelation of the killer's identity. Up until then, it's a ** out of 4, but the last 5 minutes make it a ***. One of the clues is so obvious in retrospect that you may feel like hitting your head on the wall if you miss it (and I did....miss it , I mean).
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- Filming locations
- Columbia Road, London, E2, England, UK(Chinatown)
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- Runtime50 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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