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Christie Film Collection

tmb 07 Jun 09 at 12:11 p.m. GMT

is now definitely launched and in all shops - looks great : some TV specials etc never been on DVD

http://www.agathachristiefilms.com/dvds.html

List of what tey plan to release :

Albert Finney as Hercule Poirot

• Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot

• Death on The Nile (1978)
• Evil Under the Sun (1982)
• Thirteen at Dinner (1985)
• Dead Man's Folly (1986)
• Murder in Three Acts (1986)
• Appointment with Death (1988)

Alfred Molina as Hercule Poirot

• Murder on the Orient Express (2001)

David Suchet as Hercule Poirot

• Cat Among the Pigeons (2008)
• Mrs McGinty's Dead (2008)
• The Third Girl (2008)
• Appointment with Death (2008)
• Taken at the Flood (2006)
• Mystery of the Blue Train (2005)
• Cards on the Table (2005)
• After the Funeral (2005)
• Sad Cypress (2003)
• 5 Little Pigs (2003)
• The Hollow (2004)

Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple

• Murder She Said (1961)
• Murder at the Gallop (1963)
• Murder, Ahoy! (1964)
• Murder Most Foul (1964)

Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple (2004-2008)

• The Body in the Library
• The Murder at the Vicarage
• 4.50 from Paddington
• A Murder Is Announced
• Sleeping Murder
• The Moving Finger
• By the Pricking of My Thumbs
• The Sittaford Mystery
• Ordeal by Innocence
• At Bertram's Hotel
• Nemesis
• Towards Zero

Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple (2009-)

• A Pocket Full of Rye
• Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
• Murder is Easy
• They Do It With Mirrors

Helen Hayes as Miss Marple

• A Caribbean Mystery (1983)
• Murder with Mirrors (1985)

The Agatha Christie Hour (1982)

• The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife
• In a Glass Darkly
• The Girl in the Train
• The Fourth Man
• The Case of the Discontented Soldier
• Magnolia Blossom
• The Mystery of the Blue Jar
• The Red Signal
• Jane in Search of a Job
• The Manhood of Edward Robinson

Partners in Crime (1983)

• The Secret Adversary
• The Affair of the Pink Pearl
• The House of Lurking Death
• The Sunningdale Mystery
• The Clergyman's Daughter
• Finessing the King
• The Ambassador's Boots
• The Man in the Mist
• The Unbreakable Alibi
• The Case of the Missing Lady
• The Crackler

Angela Lansbury as Miss Marple

• The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

Treasures from the Archives

• Black Coffee (1931)
• Lord Edgware Dies (1934)
• And Then There Were None (1945)
• They Came to Baghdad (1952)
• Goodyear Playhouse:
• A Murder Is Announced (1956)
• Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
• Ten Little Indians (1959 and 1965)
• The Alphabet Murders (1965)
• Endless Night (1971)
• And Then There Were None (1974)

TV Specials

• Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1980)
• The Seven Dials Mystery (1982)
• Murder is Easy (1982)
• Witness for the Prosecution (1982)
• Sparkling Cyanide (1983)
• Ordeal by Innocence (1984)
• The Last Séance (1986)
• The Man in the Brown Suit (1988)
• Ten Little Indians (1989)
• The Pale Horse (1997)
• Sparkling Cyanide (2003)

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murder_is_easy123 29 Oct 11 at 10:23 a.m. GMT

WOW!  Are you serious?  I can't believe that they are going to publish them all!  Scanning my eye over this list above, i can spy some that have not even been released on DVD before (eg: Ten Little Indians 1989) and I can't wait for this!

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jgoetsch 03 Jun 11 at 7:18 p.m. GMT

Do they plan to publish them ALL!!! That would be incredible.

TheButlerDidIT 27 Oct 09 at 5:46 p.m. GMT

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It was set in the 80's!

Part of the magic was it was set in wartime Britain.

Yes I agree it should have been set in London (blame the Americans)

It was predictable and the only charachter was the man who dressed up-but only as the vicar it was funny!

Tommy_A_Jones 27 Oct 09 at 1:09 p.m. GMT

In that case we will have to agree to dissagree, I loved the film, I made a point of watching it on Sunday, Sadly these days for commercial reasons the films have to appeal to people who like Glitzy or Grand Adaptations and The American Producers seem to like things that way and as they put up some of the money they have to have their say, If the American people all werote in Unisopn to tell them they were wrong I am sure they would agree to things being done PROPERLY but I did enjoy this film so I wasn't to dissappointed to find out the book was set in London

TheButlerDidIT 26 Oct 09 at 6:57 p.m. GMT

I was talking about the 1988 film adaption.

robbied84 24 Oct 09 at 6:54 p.m. GMT

Hope it's ok to post this but I'm selling my mint collection of The Film Collection (up to date as of yesterday) and the original Poirot collection, I've put ads in the Classified section. It's a great series but I can't afford it any more :(

Tommy_A_Jones 24 Oct 09 at 3:57 p.m. GMT

Are you talking about the Book or Film TheButlerDidit? It was obvious what the plot was and the identity of the Villlain, I felt the Book was brilliant and the Casting of (Most) of the Characters in the film was superb, I think it would have been great if the location hadn't been changed but that is a minor criticism in this case as Stephanie Zimbalist was Perfect for the role.

TheButlerDidIT 24 Oct 09 at 2:43 p.m. GMT

The Man in the Brown Suit (1988) is soooo bad,it's cringeworthy. No plot, no real villain and some nutter that like dressing up!

Christie never deserved this and the fans don't either!

Zieg 19 Oct 09 at 6:09 a.m. GMT

I also read something weird in that but it was having some hidden meaning behind it. I am still trying to figure it out.

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Zieg 19 Oct 09 at 6:04 a.m. GMT

I just finished reading Appointment with Death by AC ... that was a cool book and I especially liked it title ... which first caught my attention when I was passing by this book store to buy a book to read for feeding my brains with it.

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Tommy_A_Jones 09 Jun 09 at 11:03 a.m. GMT

Thankyou johneaynefreak and tmb although I didn't quite understand all about the Companies johnwaynefreak but I think I get the gist, what you are both saying is I should be able to find everything on the list somewhere, Thanks again both of you

tmb 09 Jun 09 at 4:36 a.m. GMT

WINNEBAGO1901

Do you know if you could buy them individually?

Its a partwork which means all will be availble individually and in (larger) shops in UK - for those not all will be for sure appearing on an ebay near you soon :) it does state in magazine that above list is what they hope to release pending agreement on rights!

johnwaynefreak 08 Jun 09 at 5:24 p.m. GMT

In theory, U.K. residents can purchase separate issues using the "Shop" tab on the website - it allows you to select individual back orders.

Although I'll be buying the series as a completist, I won't be holding my breath for the rarities such as the Austin Trevor films. An Italian partwork released by the Malavasi company included the silent film of "The Secret Adversary", and the Glynis Johns film "Spider's Web" has received a standalone release in Italy, albeit only with Italian audio - it seems decent prints are out there and rights aren't impossible to negotiate... "Die Abenteuer GmbH [Adversary]" was a print with, I think, Dutch and French intertitles and Italian subtitles laid over the top.

Can't really see all the different versions of "Ten Little Indians" being given releases- the Italian series used the Oliver Reed / Elke Sommer / Richard Attenborough film although I expect we will get the 1945 or 65 versions, those already having been released in the U.K. Likewise, it would be nice to see Austin Trevor's "Lord Edgware Dies", along with "13 at Dinner" and the Suchet version, but would Joe Public want three editions in the same partwork?

I would personally prefer to see the Joan Hickson programmes rather than the ITV Marples - when the partwork was trialled in the South of England, the Hickson edition of "The Body In The Library" was used. Issue 5 of the trial releases was Lansbury's "The Mirror Crack'd" and I'm 99% certain it claimed the Pauline Collins "Sparkling Cyanide" was to be the (never released) Issue 6. I'm also fairly certain it was recently certified for a release over on the BBFC website.

Tommy_A_Jones 08 Jun 09 at 10:34 a.m. GMT

Do you know if you could buy them individually? there are at least 6 I wouldn't want to have, Suchet's 'CARDS ON THE TABLE', McKewen's 'BODY IN THE LIBRARY' and 'SLEEPING MURDER' and Molina's 'MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS' among them and does it include the Pauline Collins version of SPARKLING CYANIDE?

Sanna 07 Jun 09 at 4:21 p.m. GMT

It seems they are part of a subscription and - once again a collection only sold in UK and Eire. That's very annoying, because it looks great.

GKCfan 07 Jun 09 at 4:04 p.m. GMT

Wow!  Some of those were thought lost or too degraded to release on DVD.  Will the set be sold in separate volumes for those of us who already own some of them?