The Blue Express (2005)

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Episode of the series Agatha Christie's Poirot
title The blue express
Original title The Mystery of the Blue Train
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Season 10, episode 1
54th episode overall ( list )
First broadcast December 11, 2005 on A&E
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Director Hettie Macdonald
script Guy Andrews
production Trevor Hopkins
music Stephen McKeon
camera Alan Almond
cut Jamie McCoan
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The Blue Express (original title: The Mystery of the Blue Train ) is a long episode from the tenth season of the British television series Agatha Christie's Poirot from 2005 by Hettie Macdonald . It is the film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Agatha Christie from 1928. It was first broadcast in the USA in December 2005, but in the UK on January 1, 2006.

action

Hercule Poirot gets on board the “ Train Bleu ” luxury train . He is on his way to the French Riviera and already met some fellow travelers the evening before in the hotel. On the train he meets the American nouveau riche Ruth Kettering, who is strangled the next morning and found with a smashed face in her compartment. The piquant thing is that the murdered woman swapped her compartment with a certain Kathrine Gray, who in turn inherited richly. While Poirot begins to investigate and is a guest in the villa of some of his fellow travelers, a murder attempt is carried out on the same Katherine Gray, which she only just escapes. Poirot is confronted with a number of suspicious factors. Ultimately, the murder of Ruth Kettering turns out to be a well-veiled ruby robbery that was carried out by her servant together with her father's assistant. Poirot convicts the perpetrators in a final scene that is very similar to the last scene of Murder on the Orient Express .

Locations

Nice ( Musée des Beaux-Arts ), Menton (Villa Maria Serena, Rue de Bréa, Basilique Saint-Michel-Archange and Palais Carnolès), Beaulieu-sur-Mer (Les Salons de la Rotonde), Paris , London (Sheraton Park Lane Hotel and Freemasons' Hall ), Peterborough (Nene Valley Railway and Wansford Station)

Changes to the novel

The murderer dies at the end of the film, in the novel he is arrested.

literature

  • Agatha Christie: The Blue Express (Original title: The Mystery of the Blue Train ). German by Gisbert Haefs . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, 288 pages, ISBN 3-596-16543-1 .

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ Release certificate for The Blue Express . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2012 (PDF; test number: 133 072 V).