Morphine (2003)

Episode of the series Agatha Christie's Poirot
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 )
First broadcast	December 26, 2003 on ITV
Rod
Director	David Moore
script	David Pirie
production	Margaret Mitchell
music	Christopher Gunning
camera	Martin Fuhrer
cut	Melanie Viner-Cuneo
occupation
David Suchet : Hercule Poirot Elisabeth Dermot Walsh : Elinor Carlisle Paul McGann : Dr. Peter Lord Rupert Penry-Jones : Roddy Winter Kelly Reilly : Mary Gerrard Phyllis Logan : Sister Hopkins
chronology
←  Predecessor The unfinished portrait Successor  → Death on the Nile

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

1. ^ Certificate of release for morphine . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2012 (PDF; test number: 135 991 V).
2. ↑ Sad Cypress
3. ↑ Poirot: Agatha Christie's Poirot - Sad Cypress
4. ↑ Telefilm Review: Sad Cypress