TY - ADVS AU - Christie,Agatha AU - Farnham,Brian AU - Eastman,Brian AU - Absolom,Joe AU - Cassidy,Raquel AU - Suchet,David TI - The Poirot collection PY - 1999/// CY - [S.l.] PB - Carnival films KW - Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character) KW - Detective and mystery films KW - Great Britain N1 - Based on the novel by Agatha Christie; At head of title: Agatha Christie; Director Brian Farnham ; Producer Brian Eastman; David Suchet, Joe Absolom, Raquel Cassidy; Censorship classification : PG N2 - The gruesome death of Mrs McGinty provokes Superintendent Spence to seek the help of his old ally Hercule Poirot. The victim'a young lodger has been found guilty and is due to hang. But Spence is not convinced by the circumstantial evidence which influenced the verdict. So, at considerable personal discomfort, Poirot goes down to the sleepy village where the old lady lived and where, by chance, his good friend Ariadne Oliver is also staying There he alights upon his first and most crucial clue - a newspaper article on the present whereabouts of women implicated in notorious murder cases. Did Mrs McGinty have to die because she had identified one of her neighbours as a brutal killer? Is that killer still at large, and can Poirot and Ariadne act swiftly enough to save an innocent man from the gallows ER -