Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

Agatha Christie Poirot. set 5 : the movie collection : Murder on the Orient Express. Third girl. Appointment with death. / a co-production of ITA Studios Limited and WGBH Boston in association with Agatha Christie Ltd. ; produced by Karen Thrussell ; directed by Ashley Pearce, Philip Martin, and Dan Reed ; screenplays by Stewart Harcourt, Peter Flannery, and Guy Andrews.

Publisher, Date:

Silver Spring, MD : Acorn Media, [2010]

Description:

3 videodiscs (approximately 275 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

"Distressed young heiress Norma Restarick comes to see Hercule Poirot about 'a murder she might have committed.' The detective consults an old acquaintance, crime novelist Ariadne Oliver, who lives in the same building as the young woman and her two roommates. When Norma's childhood nanny is found dead, apparently by suicide, Poirot believes he has identified the victim. Next he must deduce the killer, while Norma's family fears for her sanity"--Container.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Series:

Masterpiece mystery!

Masterpiece theatre (Television program)

Subjects:

Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character) -- Drama.

Detectives -- England -- Drama.

Murder -- Investigation -- England -- Drama.

Genre:

Detective and mystery television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Thrussell, Karen.

Pearce, Ashley.

Martin, Philip, 1916-1974.

Reed, Dan.

Suchet, David.

Atkins, Eileen, 1934-

Bonneville, Hugh.

Hershey, Barbara, 1948-

Wanamaker, Zoë, 1949-

Curry, Tim.

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976.

Acorn Media (Firm)

ITA Studios Limited.

WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)

Agatha Christie Ltd.

Other Title:

Poirot : the movie collection : set 5

Masterpiece theatre (Television program)

Notes:

Appeared on the television program Masterpiece mystery! which was previously Masterpiece theatre.

Title from container.

Based on the novels by Agatha Christie.

Special features include David Suchet on the Orient Express; 120 years with Agatha Christie; list of Poirot books; David Suchet and Tim Curry notes; cast filmographies.

Music, Christian Henson and Stephen McKeon.

David Suchet, Eileen Atkins, Hugh Bonneville, Barbara Hershey, Zoe Wanamaker, and Tim Curry.

DVD, region 1; widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo.

Dialog in English; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

Contents:

Murder on the Orient Express (first aired 7/11/2010) -- Third girl (first aired 9/15/2008) -- Appointment with death (first aired 12/15/2009).

ISBN:

9781598284171

1598284177

Publisher Number:

AMP-8417

Other Number:

648738368

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

269345

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD TV Poirot