{"id":8444,"date":"2013-05-26T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T06:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/?p=8444"},"modified":"2013-05-24T20:27:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T02:27:52","slug":"telefilm-review-murder-roger-akroyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/telefilm-review-murder-roger-akroyd\/","title":{"rendered":"Telefilm Review: The Murder of Roger Akroyd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=adamsblog03-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as4&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;asins=0767028627\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Four years after the end of the sixth series of Poirot, the mysteries returned for a seventh series with David Suchet. <em>The Murder of Roger Ackroyd <\/em>begins with Poirot in blissful retirement in the country as he focuses on his gardening.<\/p>\n<p>However, a baffling murder brings him out to investigate the buried secrets of a small town.<\/p>\n<p>As usual with Poirot stories, the mystery&#8217;s not a problem, nor is the acting by the lead. The fundamental problem with this play is dramatic. Here, I try not to give away the game to anyone unfamiliar with the story. <em>The Murder of Roger Akroyd <\/em>much Christie&#8217;s <em>Murder on the Orient Express, <\/em>is noted for an unusual twist solution that&#8217;s actually quite shocking in the annals of detective fiction.<\/p>\n<p>The ending works great in a book or in a well-done radio adaptation like Orson Welles&#8217; Campbell playhouse version, however it&#8217;s understandably difficult to pull off in a cinematic way.\u00a0 But, what they tried to do instead failed with a gratuitous chase scene to resolve the story just didn&#8217;t\u00a0 feel right.\u00a0 The film also suffered somewhat from the decision to include the Poirot family of actors even if it really didn&#8217;t work for capturing the spirit of the book.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the story had a somewhat maudlin, overly sentimental feel to it. To be fair, I wasn&#8217;t following the Poirot series in 2000 and maybe fans appreciated it back then, but it doesn&#8217;t age well.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a weak entry and a bumpy start to the second half of the Poirot mysteries.<\/p>\n<p>Rating: 2.5 out of 5.0<\/p>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed this post, you can have new posts about Detective stories and the golden age of radio and television delivered\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004U8SET2\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=adamsblog03-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B004U8SET2\">automatically to your Kindle<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This post contains affiliate links, which means that items purchased from these links may result in a commission being paid to the author of this post at no extra cost to the purchaser.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years after the end of the sixth series of Poirot, the mysteries returned for a seventh series with David Suchet. 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