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Chapter 1: The Silent Adventures in 1939, this chapter looking at the movies produced during the silent era. Almost all of the movies explored in this section have not been commercially released or shown on television, while several are no longer known to exist, victims of archiving policies designed for short-term distribution ra

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Chapter 2: Poirot Comes to the Silver ScreenHercule Poirot, while one further production reworked a successful stage adaptation of a Christie short story for the first time—but not the last. However, before the film industry tackled one of Christie’s most enduring stories, 1931 saw the first of many attempts to solve one of the toughest probl

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Chapter 3: The Early Television Adaptationswork, although some one-off adaptations of her stories did appear on the medium—occasionally in the UK and Europe, but more frequently in the USA. Using previously unseen archival material to give us the best insight into these long-lost productions, this chapter looks at the very earliest televisio

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Chapter 5: Christie Films Make an Impact (1960). These movies bridge a gap between the early attempts to find a way to bring Christie’s stories to the cinema, which resulted in either sweeping changes or alterations of key elements (although in some cases such changes had already been made for stage adaptations), and the commercial succes

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Chapter 8: Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poiroteen adaptations was now anticipated to be via pictures that replicated .’s most successful features as much as possible. It was envisaged that there could now be a series of similar films featuring Poirot, with Peter Ustinov cast in the role for films made for both cinema and television screens span