The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge
- Episode aired Mar 10, 1991
- TV-14
- 50m
Poirot is taken ill during a weekend shooting party, which ends when the unpopular host is found murdered in his study.Poirot is taken ill during a weekend shooting party, which ends when the unpopular host is found murdered in his study.Poirot is taken ill during a weekend shooting party, which ends when the unpopular host is found murdered in his study.
Photos
- Constable Cooke
- (as Raymond Trickitt)
- Director
- Writers
- T.R. Bowen
- Agatha Christie(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe house was used as the Stapleton house in the Sherlock Holmes Hound of the Baskervilles. The victim, played by Bernard Horsfall, was in that same episode as Frankland.
- GoofsLondon-bound trains are running to "King's Cross", yet they are marked LMS (London, Midland & Scottish Railway) and are decked in the LMS crimson lake corporate livery. Kings Cross was the London terminal for the London & North Eastern Railway, not LMS. Instead, London-bound LMS trains ran to St Pancras, their own terminus, ironically on the other side of the street from King's Cross.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Hercule Poirot: Is this gratitude, Hastings? Is it for this that Hercule Poirot exerts his talents on behalf of the world?
Chief Inspector Japp: You expect gratitude? Don't make me laugh. Now you know what a real detective feels like.
Hercule Poirot: A *real* detective!
[Japp smiles and nods]
Hercule Poirot: Chief Inspector Japp is truly most amusing, do you not think, Hastings?
Captain Hastings: Oh, yes, most amusing.
Hercule Poirot: For a policeman.
But, after a day of reading and waiting, perched on his cane-stool, while the shooting party takes its toll of the birds flushed from the moors, Poirot is nearly frozen. He complains about the cold but is happy for the big fire in the English fireplace. After they escape the lodge to the inn in the nearest town, Poirot comes down with a cold. And, it is that night that the master of the lodge, Harrington Pace, is killed.
This is a superb rendition of the short story that it is based upon. It is cleverly done so that Poirot can solve the mystery from the incidents recounted. Before the conclusion, the audience sees some of the things that only make sense after Poirot points them out. This TV episode ran on the PBS Mystery Theater in America after its original showing on the BBC in the U.K. It's a most intriguing and enjoyable mystery, even viewed again many years after its first TV run. Here are some favorite lines from this episode.
Hercule Poirot, "I shall need at least six... no, no, no. no... eight for de grouse en glaze. I shall ask the hotel to cook us some tomorrow." Captain Hastings, "It's not like ordering them in a shop, Poirot. I've gotta shoot the damn things." Hercule Poirot, "I have every faith in your marksmanship, Hastings."
Jack Stoddard, to Harrington Pace, "Damn you! I sometimes wonder which of us was born a bastard."
Hercule Poirot, "Hastings, would you please stop tapping your nose in that theatrical manner and tell me all you know?"
Chief Inspector Japp, "How many men have ya got?" Sergeant Forgan, "Men, sir? Heh, just the one, sir, him." Inspector Japp, "Well, you'll have to make optimum use of your resources, won't you?"
Chief Inspector Japp, "Ah, how's the cold, Poirot?" Hercule Poirot, "It is not a cold. It is a deadly fever."
Roger Havering, "Can we not stop this charade, chief inspector?" Chief Inspector Japp, "I don't know, sir. I've always enjoyed party games."
Chief Inspector Japp, "You expect gratitude? Don't make me laugh. Now, you know what a real detective feels like." Hercule Poirot, "A real detective? Chief Inspector Japp is fully most amusing, do you not think, Hastings?" Captain Hastings, "Oh, yes, most amusing." Hercule Poirot: "For a policeman."
- SimonJack
- Feb 13, 2018
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- Filming locations
- Castern Hall, Ilam, Staffordshire, England, UK(Hunter's Lodge)
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- Runtime50 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1