Agatha Chirstie's Poirot - Dumb Witness DVD 1996 Poirot - A kutya se látta / Directed by Edward Bennett / Starring: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Patrick Ryecart

UPC 5999546330861

MADE IN EU

REGION 2 PAL DVD

AUDIO: English 2.0, Hungarian 2.0

Subtitles: English, Hungarian

TOTAL RUNTIME: 103 MINUTES

English Summary:

In 1996, the novel was adapted as part of the television series Agatha Christie's Poirot, starring David Suchet as Poirot. The adaptation made a number of notable changes to it, which included the following:

• The setting was changed from Berkshire to England's Lake District.
• Poirot visits the Arundell home before Emily dies, and not after; he does not use the pretence of buying it to examine the house. In addition, after learning of her fall, he influences her to change her will to favour Miss Lawson, and later advises her companion to share out her inheritance to the Arundell family after the court case.
• Charles Arundell is a motor-boat racer and a friend of Captain Hastings, who attempts to beat the water speed record, and uses his aunt to finance the attempts. His sister Theresa is changed from the vain, young, engaged woman in the novel to a single woman in her late thirties.
• Bella Tanios does not leave on her own with the children, but is helped by Poirot and Hastings, to a safe place and does not get told to go to another place.
• No arsenic is stolen in the adaptation.
• The role of the dog, Bob, the dumb witness who is suspected of causing Emily's fall, is slightly altered in the television adaptation – in the novel the dog often left the ball on the landing, and the people of the house put it away, but on the night of Emily's fall the dog had been outside all night with the ball in a drawer. In the adaptation, the dog often takes the ball with him to his basket, never leaving it anywhere else, proving that when it was found on the stairs, it could not have been the dog's doing but must involve someone else; Bob was not outside the house when Emily fell in this adaptation.
• An additional murder was added into the adaptation – that of Dr Grainger. Whilst talking to Miss Lawson about Emily's death, he had suddenly realised the significance of the mist coming out of Emily as a sign, realising how she was poisoned with elemental phosphorus, but foolishly alerted Bella to his suspicions. Thus, Bella went to his room while he slept, and opened up an unlit gas heater, flooding the room with carbon monoxide, killing him as a result.
• When Poirot reveals his findings to all, Bella does not commit suicide; she is present with the others, and exposed as the murderer, rather than being given a summary of it by Poirot on her own.

An elderly woman confides to Poirot that she fears one of her relatives is trying to kill her for her money. He persuades her to disinherit her heirs, but she is murdered anyway.

Hungarian Summary:

Hercule Poirot kedves ismerőse, egy gazdag hölgy, aki éppen megváltoztatni készült végrendeletét váratlanul meghal. Az orvos szerint májelégtelenség okozta halálát - Poirot szerint megmérgezték. Poirot utolsó reménye az események egyetlen szemtanúja, "akivel" csupán egyetlen probléma van: az egyetlen tanú a halott nő kutyája.

Cast / Szereplők:

• Hugh Fraser as Hastings
• David Suchet as Hercule Poirot
• Ann Morrish as Emily Arundel
• Patrick Ryecart as Charles Arundel
• Kate Buffery as Theresa Arundel
• Paul Herzberg as Jacob Tanios
• Julia St. John as Bella Tanios
• Norma West as Wilhelmina Lawson
• Jonathan Newth as Dr. Grainger