Agatha Christie: Poirot - Season 1 (1989) (season)
Directed by:
Edward BennettCinematography:
Ivan StrasburgComposer:
Christopher GunningCast:
David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran, John Stride, Carmen Du Sautoy, Ciaran Madden, John Carson, Phyllida Law, Albert Welling (more)VOD (2)
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Pre-war Britain is striving to produce a new fighter aircraft. Minister for Armaments Lord Mayfield invites Air Marshall Carrington to his country home to discuss the secret plans. Due to the high security risk, Chief Inspector Japp has the estate patrolled by police but a vital design sheet is somehow spirited out of the house. Poirot, who is also a guest of Lord Mayfield, is on hand to track down the thief. (iTunes)
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Hercule Poirot enters higher circles, where it's about war and the possibility of defeating Germany, at least in the air. It's nice to see how Poirot doesn't belong among those people, yet in reality, he is much more intelligent than all the industrialists and their pompous wives. Still, I wasn't that impressed with this episode.
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The Incredibly Theft stands out from the Poirot cases in that there is no murder, and it is essentially a spy chase after a robber (spiced up with Nazis) rather than a detective story in the true sense of the word. And it's these "classic" whodunits with a murder, its subsequent solution and the discovery of the killer that I prefer. Thus, for me as a viewer, The Incredibly Theft stays in average waters, even if the ending is not exactly a bland affair.
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