Saturday, September 1, 2012

Hercule Poirot: The ABC Murders 1992


Poirot: The ABC Murders (1992)     Poirot is receiving typed letters from someone announcing when and where they will commit murders.  It seems as if the people targeted are selected at random but the first person has a first and last name starting with A, the name of the town also starts with A.  The second person has a first and last name starting with B, the name of the town also starts with B.  How long will this go on through the alphabet before these crimes can be stopped.
     Poirot doesn't understand why he was chosen to receive these letters?  Another puzzle is one letter is sent to the wrong address with the two previous letters sent to the correct address?  Poirot believes the person may be looking for notoriety and he doesn't want the crime information published in the newspapers.  Inspector Japp has different ideas as usual.  This is good, keeps your mind going trying to figure out who is doing this and why.  4* (I really liked this movie)

103 min, Mystery directed by Andrew Grieve with David Suchet, Philip Jackson, Hugh Frasier, Donald Sumpter, Donald Douglas, Nicholas Farrell, Pippa Guard, Cathryn Bradshaw, Nina Marc.

Note:  Blockbuster 3 1/2*, imdb 8.3 out of 10, not listed on Rotten Tomatoes.





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