Morphine (2003)
Episode of the series Agatha Christie's Poirot | |||
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title | morphine | ||
Original title | Sad cypress | ||
Country of production | United Kingdom | ||
original language | English | ||
length | 94 minutes | ||
Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
classification | Season 9, episode 2 51st episode overall ( list ) |
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First broadcast | December 26, 2003 on ITV | ||
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Director | David Moore | ||
script | David Pirie | ||
production | Margaret Mitchell | ||
music | Christopher Gunning | ||
camera | Martin Fuhrer | ||
cut | Melanie Viner-Cuneo | ||
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Morphine (Original title: Sad Cypress ) is a long episode from the ninth season of the British television series Agatha Christie's Poirot from 2003 by David Moore . It is the film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Agatha Christie from 1940.
action
After the sudden death of Laura Welman, who had suffered a stroke , the young Mary Gerrard also dies. But with a lethal dose of morphine that she couldn't have administered to herself. It appears that the perpetrator is Elinor Carlisle, sole heir to Laura Welman's fortune. Her main motive is jealousy, her murder weapon a poisoned salmon sandwich . Elinor's doctor named Peter Lord asks Hercule Poirot for help. An initially completely clear case, suddenly turns out to be contradictory. Poirot's bored "gray cells" are in top form. When he confronts the actual murderer, however, he almost pays for his insatiable criminalistic instinct with his life. Only by cunning does he escape his own poisoning.
Locations
Dorney Court ( Buckinghamshire ), England.
Reviews
TV Guide's Robert Pardi praises the actors' good performances in the film. The film is a tricky “who was the killer” story (English. Whodunit ), even by the standards of Agatha Christie.
Eye for Film's Angus Wolfe Murray thinks the script, direction and display are very good.
Great Detectives gives the film 5 out of 5 points. The film is one of the best novel adaptations . The producers would have done their job well, sending the audience down a lot of wrong tracks and letting them puzzled over the circumstances of the murder until the very end.
Web links
- Morphine in the Internet Movie Database (English)
supporting documents
- ^ Certificate of release for morphine . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2012 (PDF; test number: 135 991 V).
- ↑ Sad Cypress
- ↑ Poirot: Agatha Christie's Poirot - Sad Cypress
- ↑ Telefilm Review: Sad Cypress