Murder in Mesopotamia
- Episode aired Jul 8, 2001
- TV-14
- 1h 38m
While Poirot is on holiday in Iraq, the wife of the head scientist at an archaeological dig confides to him that she is the target of threatening letters.While Poirot is on holiday in Iraq, the wife of the head scientist at an archaeological dig confides to him that she is the target of threatening letters.While Poirot is on holiday in Iraq, the wife of the head scientist at an archaeological dig confides to him that she is the target of threatening letters.
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- (as Rejeb Magri)
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Did you know
- TriviaIn the Agatha Christie novel "Murder in Mesopotamia", Captain Hastings does not appear. In this adaptation, he appears and is related to William Coleman.
- GoofsIt is impossible to accidentally drink Hydrochloric Acid because it gives off copious amounts of fumes which burn the nose and eyes. A person would be coughing violently before ever taking a sip, so Mrs. Johnson could not accidentally drink it thinking it was water, even half asleep. Sulfuric acid on the other hand has almost no fumes and could easily be drunk by a person who is half asleep.
- Quotes
Bill Coleman: [after going over a bump while driving his jeep at high speed through the desert] Whoops!
Hercule Poirot: [groaning with discomfort] Unh!
Bill Coleman: That was a good one!
Hastings: [with annoyance] We don't have to get there in five minutes, you know!
Bill Coleman: That's half the fun. You're growing old, Ucle Arthur.
Hercule Poirot: Mr. Coleman, I myself have aged ten years since entering this auto mobile.
- Crazy creditsThanks to the Archeological Site of Oudhna.
The plot for this film is probably the most far-out of any Christie tale. The story background is very far-fetched, and the whole mystery setting seems weird. Yet, with all that, at its conclusion, the story didn't seem very complex. Only the method of the main murder was difficult to imagine for a time.
Captain Hastings brought Poirot along for a visit to the dig where he was going for two weeks to be with his nephew. One aside is Poirot's trying to reconnect with a friend, Countess Rosakoff, who sent him a message from a hotel in Baghdad. He keeps missing her but in the end is pleased to pick up her unpaid hotel bill.
Here are some favorite lines from the film.
Captain Hastings, "I say, Poirot, was that tasteless of me, mentioning the countess?" Hercule Poirot, "Could you ever be tasteless, Hastings?" Hastings, smiling, "No!"
Captain Hastings, 'Pretty ruddy silly, if you ask me." Hercule Poirot, "Ah, well, if only people would ask you, Hastings, they would refrain from the ruddy silliness, huh?"
Hercule Poirot, "But facts, Hastings, facts. These are the cobbles that make up the road along which we travel."
Hercule Poirot, "However deep one buries an unpleasantness, a dog, he will always root it out again."
Dr. Leidner, "You'd have made a good archaeologist, Mr. Poirot. You have the gift of recreating the past.
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- Jun 11, 2019
Details
- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 16 : 9