The Pale Horse is a great Agatha Christie book. The book starts with priest being summoned to a dying woman. The woman tells him of evil and wickedness and. gives him a piece of paper; a list of names. On his way home, the priest is murdered, the list is in his shoe and when it's found, the police start their investigation. On the list is a Heskith Dubois, an aunt of Mark Easterbrook. Mark earlie. with his friend Ginger, witnesses a fight in a coffee bar and one of the girls fighting ' Thomasina or Tommy Tuckerton' is seen with her hair falling out. Mark's aunt then dies and the police arrive to find out more about her, I can't remember how. but Mark is shown the list and recognises Tuckerton's name. There's a connection to the symptoms before death. and from there the mystery unfolds. With a mention of The Pale Horse, murder by remote, witches, and so on, it's just such a great story with great characters.
This BBC adaption is poor. Very, very poor. We are shown slow, unnecessary scenes of Mark's first wife (deceased), his current wife (nutty as a fruitcake), some strange goings on with The Pale Horse, Mark having dream. Mark driving his beautiful car, Mark looking confused and bewildered (as we all were at the end). The writers have CHANGED the story completely. How can anyone have the gall to change the plot of one of the world's best selling authors? Anyway, they made a laughing stock of it.
The book is about people getting their inheritance and first directed to a gambling man who'll give them 'odds' of the rich relative dying and them getting their inheritance. A visit to The Pale Horse to see the witches, is essential and they believe it's their work which kills the intended victim -it's not. It's a much cleverer plot..
This BBC version (paid for by us in the UK by compulsory TV licence) is so very poor, confusing, complete change from the book, with an ending that had us saying 'what'? And laughing out loud as it was so ridiculous.
This BBC adaption is poor. Very, very poor. We are shown slow, unnecessary scenes of Mark's first wife (deceased), his current wife (nutty as a fruitcake), some strange goings on with The Pale Horse, Mark having dream. Mark driving his beautiful car, Mark looking confused and bewildered (as we all were at the end). The writers have CHANGED the story completely. How can anyone have the gall to change the plot of one of the world's best selling authors? Anyway, they made a laughing stock of it.
The book is about people getting their inheritance and first directed to a gambling man who'll give them 'odds' of the rich relative dying and them getting their inheritance. A visit to The Pale Horse to see the witches, is essential and they believe it's their work which kills the intended victim -it's not. It's a much cleverer plot..
This BBC version (paid for by us in the UK by compulsory TV licence) is so very poor, confusing, complete change from the book, with an ending that had us saying 'what'? And laughing out loud as it was so ridiculous.