Murder on the Orient Express (2017)Ģ017’s Murder on the Orient Express was the most hyped Agatha Christie film adaptation in recent memory, and it’s also one of the most forgettable. The mountain setting lends a dark and creepy vibe to this adaptation, but overall this film felt extremely dated and unimaginative. 1965’s Ten Little Indianstakes place in a remote mansion in the mountains rather than on an island (as in other versions and in the book). We have arrived at our third adaptation of And Then There Were None on this list. This film reduces Poirot to a buffoonish character, bearing a closer resemblance to detectives like Inspector Jacques Clouseau in The Pink Pantherthan any rendering of Poirot in Agatha Christie’s imagination.

Production was delayed on this particular film because Agatha Christie disapproved of the script, and it’s easy to see why. Despite the impressive cast list in this film, this is a mediocre entry into the world of Agatha Christie film adaptations, and this movie bombed at the box office.īased on the Hercule Poirot novel The ABC Murders, the 1965 film The Alphabet Murdersis a comedic reimagining of the murder mystery. Appointment With Death (1988)Īppointment with Deathis a star-studded adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot mystery Appointment with Death. This film marks the final appearance of Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot, and you will see some of his better movies further up this list. In this film, actor Austin Trevor reprises his role of Hercule Poirot for the third time, this time in an adaptation of Christie’s novel Lord Edgeware Dies. Trevor also played Poirot in the 1931 films Alibi and Black Coffee, but as those two movies are now pretty much impossible to find anywhere, if you want to see Trevor’s Poirot, Lord Edgeware Diesis the movie for you. This movie is a more comedic take on the novel as well, which some people seemed to have enjoyed, but the comedy in this film never really landed with me. Most notably, Christie’s popular amateur detective Miss Marple is replaced with Tommy and Tuppence. Le Crime Est Notre Affaire, or Crime is Our Business, is a French adaptation of Christie’s 4.50 to Paddington, but with some major changes.

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