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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Storyline
Did you know
- 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.
But that's enough in old England, we then catch up with Poirot in the eastern Mediterranean. He has a few days left at Rhodes and then he must leave. But that's enough time for a crime and our master sleuth to solve it. And, so the story goes. This is another very interesting and different intriguing story. It had me fooled even the second time I watched it and then I only got it half right this recent third time, several years later. This episode has six interesting characters, and a very good, surprise type of ending. Agatha Christie, through her Hercule, could really come up with some good ones.
Without his usual cadre of characters, Poirot is more reserved, so we don't have much humor in this episode. Here's my favorite line.
Hercule Poirot, "Where are you headed, major, Abyssinia?" Major Barnes, "How in Hades did you know that?" Poirot, "Well, I assumed you want to be there for the ostrich-shooting season."
- SimonJack
- Mar 3, 2018
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- Kallithea Springs, Greece(Bathing beach scene)
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- Runtime50 minutes
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