Agatha Christie Poirot. Taken at the flood [videorecording]
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FilmPublisher number: ACH 01 20 | Granada InternationalSeries: Agatha Christie's PoirotPublication details: Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation/Roadshow Entertainment [distributor], 2006Description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (ca. 95 min.) : sd., stereo, col. ; 12 cmOther title: Taken at the flood | PoirotSubject(s): Feature films -- Great Britain | Detective and mystery films | Inheritance and succession -- Great Britain | Detectives -- DramaProduction credits: Director, Paul Unwin ; producer, Margaret Mitchell.Cast: David Suchet, Celia Imrie, Patrick Baladi, Tim Pigott-Smith, Jenny Agutter.Summary: Just weeks after marrying a young widowed actress, Gordon Cloade, a rich businessman, is instantly killed in a gas explosion in his flat. Out of the inferno, which also killed several other people in his apartment building, however miraculously walks his 23-year-old actress wife Rosaleen almost unharmed, having been in the cellar at the time of the explosion with her brother David Hunter, choosing wine. After Gordon Cloade's death, his young widow is left in sole possession of her late husband's fortune and - in contrast to her husband who always was very generous with his money to the rest of his family - she totally withholds it from the other Cloades. Finding the sudden lack of funds very frustrating, the Cloades decide to employ detective Hercule Poirot in order to investigate the on-going rumours that Rosaleen's first husband Robert Underhay, who years ago mysteriously disappeared into the African jungle, might not be dead after all.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor - DVD | Northam Northam Adult fiction | F CHR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | al42000117439b |
R-B00716-911222.
Director, Paul Unwin ; producer, Margaret Mitchell.
David Suchet, Celia Imrie, Patrick Baladi, Tim Pigott-Smith, Jenny Agutter.
Just weeks after marrying a young widowed actress, Gordon Cloade, a rich businessman, is instantly killed in a gas explosion in his flat. Out of the inferno, which also killed several other people in his apartment building, however miraculously walks his 23-year-old actress wife Rosaleen almost unharmed, having been in the cellar at the time of the explosion with her brother David Hunter, choosing wine. After Gordon Cloade's death, his young widow is left in sole possession of her late husband's fortune and - in contrast to her husband who always was very generous with his money to the rest of his family - she totally withholds it from the other Cloades. Finding the sudden lack of funds very frustrating, the Cloades decide to employ detective Hercule Poirot in order to investigate the on-going rumours that Rosaleen's first husband Robert Underhay, who years ago mysteriously disappeared into the African jungle, might not be dead after all.
Censorship rating: M. Contains: moderate violence.
PAL region 4.
In English. Subtitles: Yes (not defined)
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