It’s probably no coincidence that the Billy Wilder film of Christie’s play Witness for the Prosecution emphasises the embellishments that the Queen of Crime herself had added when adapting the original short story for the stage. It’s difficult to resist the camp fun of it all. There’s even a ‘Whodunit Break’, with the audience encouraged to discuss who they think the villain is while the action is paused at a crucial moment. In this version the characters are stranded atop a snowy mountain rather than on an island, with pop star Fabian choking to death not long after he performs the nursery rhyme, while Bond girl Shirley Eaton helps to place the film firmly in the swinging sixties. However, for sheer entertainment value you may also enjoy the rather sillier 1965 take on the story. The mystery had a strong start at the cinema, with René Clair’s acclaimed 1945 adaptation of Christie’s stage version of the story setting the bar high. Here are some recommendations for Agatha Christie films that you might enjoy…Ĭhristie’s most adapted story, And Then There Were None has had many screen treatments over the years, both as full adaptations and as pastiches. But this is by no means the only famous story that will transport you away from your front room. This story lends itself so well to the big screen, because of the initial sense of travel and adventure, the huge range of characters on board, as well the locked-room mystery element when the Orient Express is caught in a snowdrift. If you’re an Agatha Christie fan then you have probably seen at least one of the two big-screen adaptations of Murder on the Orient Express – the first with Albert Finney as Poirot in 1974, and more recently Kenneth Branagh’s 2017 take on the Belgian sleuth’s most famous case. Mark Aldridge recommends Agatha Christie film adaptations
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