An enchanting beauty is fatally poisoned while Poirot holidays on the Greek island of Rhodes.An enchanting beauty is fatally poisoned while Poirot holidays on the Greek island of Rhodes.An enchanting beauty is fatally poisoned while Poirot holidays on the Greek island of Rhodes.
- Good Woman
- (as Sophia Olympiou)
- Custom's Officer
- (as Telemahos Emanuel)
- Purser
- (as Yannis Hadjiyannis)
- Director
- Writers
- Stephen Wakelam
- Agatha Christie(uncredited)
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- TriviaThere are several references to the geopolitical context of the time, which is strongly flagged as 1935-6. There is the main front-page headline in the copy of the Daily Express read by Poirot, which refers to the Abyssinian Crisis. There are prominent portraits of Mussolini. There is Poirot's observation that the harbour on Rhodes is being fortified and finally there is Major Barnes heading to Abyssinia / Ethiopia, on the ludicrous pretence that it's to hunt ostriches.
- GoofsOn the column placed on the east pier, by the side of Agios Nikolaos Fortress, at the entrance of the Mandraki harbor, at the time in which the story is set, there was not a hind, but the Capitoline she Wolf suckling the infants Romulus and Remus.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Dicker: Oh yes, and what time do we call this, then, eh?
Postman: Don't want to get you out of bed.
[hands over letters and packages]
Dicker: No good leaving all this stuff for 56B. They're on holiday.
Postman: What, all of 'em?
Dicker: Oh, yeah. That Captain Hastings has gone off shooting things, and the secretary has gone off to visit her sister in Folkestone.
Postman: Well, what of the French one?
Dicker: Somewhere foreign. Sent me a postcard with goats on it.
Postman: Oh, yeah, I remember. Well, let's hope it keeps fine for him.
Nice setting with some good cinematography. Not much of a mystery though. The murderer and murder method are obvious even before the event occurs, especially if you're used to Agatha Christie mysteries and this and the Miss Marple TV series (think "The Mirror Cracked from Side to Side"). Some action toward the end (which is a bit un- Poirot/Christie-like) but it is pretty much a straightforward affair.
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- Jul 22, 2016
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- Kallithea Springs, Greece(Bathing beach scene)
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- Runtime50 minutes
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