Film and TV adaptations
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Most of his novels and stories have been made into a film, some on more than one occasion, as Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile One exception was a 1979 film entitled the British Agatha Michael Apted, in figure was taken directly from the writer and attempted to elucidate on a real event related to it: his mysterious disappearance for several days in the early Poirot 1920.49 and other detectives, as Miss Marple, have also appeared in numerous films, programs radio and theater.
Suggestion mortal (a 1937 mystery drama, directed by Rowland V. Lee) and Ten Little Indians (a work of suspense, 1945, directed by René Clair) are the first major adaptations of Christie. In 1957, he took the film adaptation of one of his works for Witness for the Prosecution. Then came the train of 4.50 (1962 of George Pollock), whose success began a series of films focusing on the cases of Marple, played by actress Margaret Rutherford.50 Other adaptations were titled Endless Night (1971), the cycle shot with Hollywood figures based on Murder on the Orient Express (1974, Sidney Lumet), 51 Death on the Nile (1979, John Guillermin), 52 The Mirror Crack'd (1980, directed by Guy Hamilton and starring Elizabeth Taylor) , 53 Ordeal by Innocence (1983, Desmond Davies); 54 and Appointment with Death (1988, Michael Winner) .55
Since 1982, three cycles were filmed for TV: one on Miss Marple with Helen Hayes in only three films, one on Hercule Poirot with Peter Ustinov playing the character, 56 and another on the old detective in England, played by Joan Hickson , plus loose adaptations of all conditions. Among others, we find a British series entitled Marriage of hounds, to 1982.57 There is also an anime series titled "Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple" which consists of 39 episodes of 25 minutes each in which they recreate frames books.