Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (DVD)

Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (DVD)

Production Year: 1991 - Mystery - Director: Ross Devenish - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson more

4.00 1 reviews | Write a review | Ask a question | Add product to list

More adventures of that notorious Belgian sleuth extraordinaire created by famed novelist Agatha Christie. This time, Poirot's dentist is found dead in his surgery, apparently...
more





Please wait ....
Rate this product:  
 
This action can only be made by logged in members.
1 offer for Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (DVD)   sorted by Price  

5 out of 5 similar offers for Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (DVD)  
Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe [VHS] [1989] Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe [VHS] [1989]
Release Date: 2003-07-14, Rating Parental Guidance,
£ 10.56

Postage & Packaging£2.69
AvailabilityUsually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
amazon marketplace video
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Poirot) - Agatha Christie
Pages: 224, Edition: Masterpiece ed, Paperback, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
£ 0.30

Postage & PackagingFree!
AvailabilityUsually dispatched within 24 hours...
amazon books
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Poirot) - Agatha Christie One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Poirot) - Agatha Christie
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Poirot)
£ 4.54

Postage & Packagingrefer to website
Availabilityin stock
snazal.com
Poirot: Poirot: "One,Two Buckle My Shoe", "Five Little Pigs","Taken at the Flood": The War Years - Agatha Christie
Pages: 535, Edition: New edition, Paperback, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
£ 5.01

Postage & Packagingfree Super Saver Delivery
AvailabilityUsually dispatched within 24 hours...
amazon books
Poirot: The War Years: One,Two Buckle My Shoe, Five Little Pigs,Taken at the Flood - Agatha Christie Poirot: The War Years: One,Two Buckle My Shoe, Five Little Pigs,Taken at the Flood - Agatha Christie
Poirot: The War Years: One,Two Buckle My Shoe, Five Little Pigs,Taken at the Flood
£ 8.44

Postage & Packagingrefer to website
Availabilityin stock
snazal.com

Products you might be interested in
Columbo - Series 3 - Complete (Box Set) (DVD)Columbo - Series 3 - Complete (Box Set) (DVD)

This product has not yet been reviewed. Rate it now

Buy now for only £ 3.89

Sherlock Holmes - The Definitive Collection (Box Set) (DVD)Sherlock Holmes - The Definitive Collection (Box Set) (DVD)

Mystery - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce

 1 review

Buy now for only £ 17.44

The Miss Marple Collection - Starring Joan Hickson (Box Set) (DVD)The Miss Marple Collection - Starring Joan Hickson (Box Set) (DVD)

Mystery - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring: Joan Hickson

 2 reviews

Buy now for only £ 37.78

Murder In Mind (Box Set) (DVD)Murder In Mind (Box Set) (DVD)

Thriller - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Timothy West, Neil Morrissey, Tara Fitzgerald, Annette Crosbie, Pauline Quirke, Rob Brydon, Denise Van Outen, John Thomson, Kevin Whately, David Suchet

This product has not yet been reviewed. Rate it now

Buy now for only £ 4.99

The Transporter (DVD)The Transporter (DVD)

(+) Brilliant fight sequences
(-) A good but occasionally weak storyline which can rely on the action a bit too much

 5 reviews

Buy now for only £ 3.85

Fear Of The Dark (DVD)Fear Of The Dark (DVD)

Production Year: 2002 - Thriller - Director: K.C. Bascombe - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Jesse James, Rachel Skarsten, Charles Powell, Linda Purl, Kevin Zegars

This product has not yet been reviewed. Rate it now

Buy now for only £ 3.07


Auctions and Classifieds for Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (DVD)

Trader Rating Product description Link
Show all offers
eBay.co.uk
667 Ratings
Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (DVD) at eBay.co.uk
Buy Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (DVD) at eBay, the world's largest personal online trading community.


   
Poirot at the dentist's
A review by sunmeilan on Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (DVD)
July 13th, 2006


Author's product rating:   

Did you enjoy it? Liked it 
Story Good 
Characters / Performances Good 
Special Effects Standard 
How does it compare to similar films? Good 

Advantages: Lesser known story
Disadvantages: Too many characters

Recommend to potential buyers: yes 

Full review

Introduction
I'm not sure what it is about Agatha Christie, but despite the fact that her stories were mostly written in the first half of the twentieth century, they still remain as popular today, if not more so. Translating the stories over onto the television and into film hasn't always been quite so successful; with a few exceptions, one of which is the Poirot series starring David Suchet, in which the original stories are generally unadulterated - unlike the latest Miss Marple series.

The story
Mabelle Sainsbury Seale is thrilled to meet the husband, banker Alistair Blunt, of her best friend from 12 years ago when they were in India together and rushes to get in touch with her old friend. At the same time, Poirot has terrible toothache and is forced to visit his dentist, Mr Morley, coincidentally on the same day that Mabelle is having her teeth checked. When Poirot later finds out that his dentist was murdered shortly after his visit, he is intrigued. This death is followed shortly afterwards by the murder of a woman thought to be Mabelle Sainsbury Seale and another of the dentist's patients that tragic morning.

When Chief Inspector Japp realises that Poirot is a potential witness, he welcomes his old friend to work with him to solve the mystery. Yet nothing is straightforward and nobody seems to be telling the truth. Can they work out who the murderer is before more people die?

The characters/actors
I've said it before and I'll say it again, David Suchet is the closest actor to my idea of Poirot that there has ever been, even down to the moustache and the preciseness of manner. He plays the role with just enough humour to take the edge of the drama, without making it laughable. Having played the role now for nearly 20 years, it is hard to imagine him in any other role - luckily he hasn't finished making all the Poirot stories yet and he plans to do so, so hopefully he will be around for a lot longer yet. Philip Jackson also did admirably as CI Japp, as usual.

I was very surprised to see a very young Christopher Eccleston in the role of Frank Carter, who was present in the dentist's surgery that morning and as the genuine angry young man, is a major suspect. He is a member of the British Union of Fascists, or blackshirts as they were known, and is deeply despised by Mr Morley. Within a year of this role, he got the role of DCI Bilborough in ITV's Cracker. He definitely did justice to the role, and although it is not his strongest by a long chalk, it is easy to see why he has become so sought after as an actor.

There were an awful lot of other characters; so many that it actually got a bit confusing at times. Probably the two most important characters worth mentioning (apart from Poirot and Japp that is) are the banker, Alistair Blunt, played by Peter Blythe and Miss Sainsbury Seale, played by Carolyn Colquhoun. Peter Blythe, who died in 2004, played the Tory minister Tom King in The Alan Clark Diaries. He gave a strong performance as Blunt, a man full of self-importance. I wasn't too keen on Carolyn Colquhoun's performance though. She plays a ditzy 40 something lady, but takes the ditzy bit a little too far and left me feeling cold.

Technical bits

Classification: PG

Running time: 101 minutes

Conclusion
I think you definitely need to be a fan of Agatha Christie or early twentieth century detective fiction to really appreciate this particular episode. I really enjoyed it because it was one of the Poirot stories that I was not so familiar with and therefore couldn't remember the end. However, it isn't one of the best stories and for Agatha Christie beginners (are there really any?), I would recommend one of the better known stories, such as Death on the Nile, to begin with. I think the main problem with this particular story is that there are too many characters and is hard to keep a track of what is going on at times. Nothing that an avid fan like me can't cope with though!

One thing that I really did appreciate about this episode and most of the others in this series is that it follows the book very very closely. There are a few really minor points that have been changed; for example, the dentist Mr Morley had a partner in the book, but really nothing worth commenting on. I appreciate that TV versions of books are often quite different from the original story, but in the case of Agatha Christie, whose stories are so well-known, it really annoys me when the stories are tinkered with.

Despite the fact that there were too many characters and that it wasn't one of Poirot's best cases, I still loved this; hence four stars.

I watched the film version of this film, but the DVD is available from Amazon from £2.65.
 



Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (DVD)

Product details

Actor(s): David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson

Director(s): Ross Devenish

Genre: Mystery

Classification: Parental Guidance

Production Year: 1991

Running Time: 1 hour 41 minutes

Video Category: Television

Release details

DVD Region: DVD

Studio(s): CINEMA CLUB; SONY DADC

Release date: 14/07/2003

No of Discs: 1

Catalogue No: CCD 9626

Barcode: 5014138296261

Producer: Brian Eastman

Author: Agatha Christie

DVD Description

More adventures of that notorious Belgian sleuth extraordinaire created by famed novelist Agatha Christie. This time, Poirot's dentist is found dead in his surgery, apparently suicide but things are never as they seem.

Languages

Main Language: English

Technical information

Aspect Ratio: 4:3

Sound: Mono

Dubbing Sound: Mono English

Ciao

Listed on Ciao since : 13/07/2006

Compare Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (DVD) to other similar Thriller & Mystery

similar by Price
(up to 5 GBP)
similar by Genre
(Mystery)
similar by Actor (by last name)
(J)
  • Freedomland (DVD)
    (-) Awful script, lame direction, abysmal leading performances (+) A couple of decent supporting performances (*)
  • Phone Booth (DVD)
    (-) The film runs out of ideas and is too short (+) Clever, original and a few laughs as well (*)
  • Unbreakable (DVD)
    (-) Comparisons to The Sixth Sense (+) Enjoyable, great acting (*)
  • Changing Lanes (DVD)
    (-) saccharin coated ending (+) see review (*)
(*) Reviews by Ciao members

Gift ideas

Similar products and search queries by other users


Poirot Agatha One, Poirot Christies One, Poirot Poirot One, Poirot Agatha Christies One, Poirot Agatha Poirot One, Poirot Christies Poirot One, Poirot Agatha Christies Poirot One, Poirot Christie s One, Poirot Agatha Christie s One, Poirot Christie s Poirot One, Poirot Agatha Christie s Poirot One



Are you the manufacturer / provider of Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (DVD)? Click here