An enchanting beauty is fatally poisoned while Poirot holidays on the Greek island of Rhodes.An enchanting beauty is fatally poisoned while Poirot holidays on the Greek island of Rhodes.An enchanting beauty is fatally poisoned while Poirot holidays on the Greek island of Rhodes.
- Good Woman
- (as Sophia Olympiou)
- Custom's Officer
- (as Telemahos Emanuel)
- Purser
- (as Yannis Hadjiyannis)
- Director
- Writers
- Stephen Wakelam
- Agatha Christie(uncredited)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThere are several references to the geopolitical context of the time, which is strongly flagged as 1935-6. There is the main front-page headline in the copy of the Daily Express read by Poirot, which refers to the Abyssinian Crisis. There are prominent portraits of Mussolini. There is Poirot's observation that the harbour on Rhodes is being fortified and finally there is Major Barnes heading to Abyssinia / Ethiopia, on the ludicrous pretence that it's to hunt ostriches.
- GoofsOn the column placed on the east pier, by the side of Agios Nikolaos Fortress, at the entrance of the Mandraki harbor, at the time in which the story is set, there was not a hind, but the Capitoline she Wolf suckling the infants Romulus and Remus.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Dicker: Oh yes, and what time do we call this, then, eh?
Postman: Don't want to get you out of bed.
[hands over letters and packages]
Dicker: No good leaving all this stuff for 56B. They're on holiday.
Postman: What, all of 'em?
Dicker: Oh, yeah. That Captain Hastings has gone off shooting things, and the secretary has gone off to visit her sister in Folkestone.
Postman: Well, what of the French one?
Dicker: Somewhere foreign. Sent me a postcard with goats on it.
Postman: Oh, yeah, I remember. Well, let's hope it keeps fine for him.
Right from the beginning, and throughout the episode, one is struck by the stunning depiction of the location. From the costumes, to the archaeological sites, to the shots of the sunset, they could have won awards for the cinematography alone. And, because the story is set in the mid 1930's, there are a number of references to the growing unrest of the time. (Apparently Rhodes was then part of the Italian empire.) In some ways, the location makes up for the overly melodramatic acting and the curious sequence of events. In this adaptation of the story, Poirot is scheduled to leave the island and is at the harbor ready to get on a boat when the murder takes place at the hotel. Despite being stopped by harbor officials and "detained", apparently suspected of espionage, when someone from the hotel comes running to fetch him to help solve the murder, Poirot merely hands his business card to the official and, not only is he allowed to return to the hotel unimpeded, but shortly afterword he is seen being informed about the case by the Italian police inspector. Really? So, the plot holes are an issue, but I was so charmed by the location, the scenes of people shouting in Greek and Italian, and the blatant depiction of the English making idiots of themselves, capped off by the line I've used for the title of this review, that I can overlook those other details this time.
- kaberi-893-642316
- Sep 7, 2015
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- Kallithea Springs, Greece(Bathing beach scene)
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- Runtime50 minutes
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