The Best of Agatha Christie: Volumes One and Two DVD

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Although some of these were released on Blu-ray (as well as DVD), if you didn’t already own these, The Best of Agatha Christie sets are well worth picking up especially if you like the author’s adaptations.

 

 

The Best of Agatha Christie: Volumes One & Two
(2003-2016)

Genre(s): Mystery, Crime, Drama
RLJ Entertainment | NR – 382 min. / 307 min. – $22.97/ea. | November 14, 2017

Date Published: 11/21/2017 | Author: The Movieman

 
MOVIE INFO:
Directed by: Various
Writer(s): Agatha Christie
Cast: Charles Dance, Sam Neill, Miranda Richardson, Rachael Stirling, Toby Stephens, Aidan Gillen, Emily Blunt, Kim Cattrall, Toby Jones, Andrea Riseborough, David Suchet
DISC INFO:
Features: Featurettes, Interviews
Digital Copy: No
Formats Included: Blu-ray
Number of Discs: 4 (2 each)
Audio: English (Dolby Digital 5.1/2.0)
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78
Subtitles: English
Region(s): 1

 

ABOUT THESE RELEASES
RLJ has re-released 6 TV movies based off of Agatha Christie’s books obviously to tie into the new Murder on the Orient Express adaptation. Each volume contains three movies:

Volume One:

  • And Then There Were None — On the brink of WWII, 10 strangers are invited to an isolated island — and by the end of the night, the first of them is dead.
  • Five Little Pigs — Fourteen years after Caroline Crate is executed for murdering her husband, Lucy Crate asks Poirot to prove her mother’s innocence.
  • Death on the Nile — Poirot intervenes when a jilted woman harasses a newlywed couple, but their honeymoon river cruise turns deadly nonetheless.

Volume Two:

  • The Witness for the Prosecution — When a heiress is brutally murdered, all the evidence points to her young lover. But he insists to his solicitor that his wife can prove his innocence.
  • Three Act Tragedy — After guests at successive dinner parties mysteriously drop dead, Poirot teams up with an old friend to find the killer.
  • Hallowe’en Party — Crime novelist Ariadne calls Poirot to investigate the macabre murder of a young girl at a children’s costume party.

 

SPECIAL FEATURES – 1.0/5
Both sets come with a slip cover. The Witness for the Prosecution is the only movie to have any features, with a set of Interviews and two Featurettes.

 

VIDEO – 3.75/5, AUDIO – 3.0/5
All six movies are presented with a 16×9 enhanced widescreen 1.78 aspect ratio and come with Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 tracks.

OVERALL – 3.0/5
Although some of these were released on Blu-ray (as well as DVD), if you didn’t already own these, The Best of Agatha Christie sets are well worth picking up especially if you like the author’s adaptations. Unfortunately, only one movie comes with features…
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