Agatha Christie is one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century, and her novels are among the best-selling in the world. They have been translated into many languages, which made her one of the most famous women in the world. Agatha was born in 1890 in England, and in 1920 began her journey with writing; famous for more than 80 novels and short story about the Belgian legendary investigator «Hercule Poirot», which reveals the mysterious crimes, and is the main character in the mysterious Agatha novels, this series of novels was famous Extensive, it began in 1926 with her novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, which later became a classics of literature.
Since the 1920s, Agatha has sold more than a billion copies in English alone, and a billion more translated, but her fame has not relied solely on literature. Many moviemakers have used Agatha’s novels for over half a century as raw material. To make a good crime movie, dozens of movies and television works were taken from her work; Through this list we will follow together with the footsteps of these works, to learn about the movie face of Agatha’s novels.
1 – Murder On The Orient Express– 2017
Agatha Christie had many fictional friends, enjoying a fertile imagination contributed to by her unconventional childhood; it was from this imagination that the character of Belgian investigator Hercule Poirot, the main character in the movie“ Murder in the Orient Express, ” produced in 2017.
Poirot would have liked to have spent his vacation away from the noise of murders and investigations, had he not been forced to book a last-minute room aboard the Orient Express in 1935, a luxurious train that none of us could see with his luxurious compartments, but before His journey ends in peace, a murder in a new mystery he has to solve.
The first-class booths of the train included many wealthy figures, all of whom after the crime became potential criminals. A diplomat and his wife were on the train, an arrogant and elderly Russian princess, a religious Spanish missionary played by Penelope Cruz, and a rich and beautiful blonde nicknamed herself a ‘couple hunter’. Michelle Pfeiffer, in turn, was the man killed by Johnny Depp, who was a manipulative person, who had many arguments for deception, and made money from thefts and deceit, received many threats messages, and there is a weapon that does not leave his hands.
Although director Kenneth Branagh, who also acted as an investigator in the movie, tried to present the novel in a classic way appropriate to the time of its making, he also tried to add some excitement to the events of the novel by making some chasing scenes, in addition to making the character of the investigator More angry and screaming, which critics have pointed out was that he had no place in expressing the story except to make the novel fit the demands of the movie market.
The movie is one of the great productions that presented the Orient Express as it has never seen on the screen before it travels the country east and west, from the desert to the land of snow, which surpassed the old movie that was presented for the same story, in 1975, and was starring Sean Connery, Oscar-winning Ingrid Bergman, and Lauren Bacall, a glamor of the golden age of American cinema.
2 – Crooked House– 2017
In 2017, only Agatha’s novel, The Crooked House, says movie critic Roger Ebert says that Agatha’s novels represent a plot of dramatic and permanently fertile, which makes her presence in movie production to date. The novel’s elegance and its ambiguous sense at the same time have so far killed “Murder in the Orient Express” four times in cinematic works, most recently Kenneth Branagh’s 2017 movie.
The Crooked House, which tells of a murder in a huge house of a wealthy, brutal and cruel patriarch, is killed at night in mysterious circumstances by his family, putting the whole family under the microscope. Ebert says it is a house without life. Like a corpse that is built around.
“A house boiling with repressed emotions,” as Glenn Claus, one of the main characters of the work, described it. The people inside him liked the wealthy dead more than anything in existence, but they hated him very much at the same time. The whole family, until they are all suspected of one crime.
Variety says the work is more coherent than the Orient Express. Although the character of Detective Hayward did not even come close to that of Hercules Poirot, Max Irons played a great role. The most mysterious in the history of Agatha novels. This work keeps you on the lookout for a permanent, according to which the movie succeeded, and to the shocking conclusion that Ms. Agatha herself proud to reach, to the extent that she describes her favorite work from her collection.
3 – Death On The Nile– 1978
This movie is a new episode of the Belgian investigator Hercule Poirot, this shrewd investigator, for which the New York Times wrote an article in his lament in 1975, after being killed by Agatha Christie in her late work, as he portrayed him in his last days elderly suffering from arthritis and disease The heart, moving in a wheelchair, wearing a wig, and wearing a fake chin to hide the signs of time that have gotten his ego.
It was the marriage of Mrs. Agatha to the archaeologist Max Mallowan that influenced her novels; she was on a constant travel with him in many campaigns, which allowed her to see many sites that witnessed the adventures of Mr. Poirot, and contributed to the splendor of portraying his personality to the point that World fame, inherited by major newspapers, as if he were here real, telling the story of his life.
In this movie we find the crime this time is located on the banks of the Nile in Egypt, entitled the same novel «Death in the Nile Valley», this time about a murder onboard a ship cruising around Luxor and Aswan, where a young woman who was traveling with her husband was killed for a month Honey, which urges Poirot, who was one of the inmates of the ship to investigate the matter.
It is worth mentioning that the movie will be re-produced in 2019, to come back to us in a new form. The current movie is starring Peter Ustinov, in the role of Hercule Poirot, in which critics have written about his performance, saying: “Mr. Ustinov may not be Poirot that we are looking for, but it has embodied the role as Agatha Christie perfectly portrayed it, with all of Nostalgia’s past.”
4 – Witness for the Prosecution– 1957
Witness for the prosecution, one of the classics of world cinema, is one of Mrs. Agatha’s best works that has been converted to fit the silver screen. He was nominated for six Oscars in acting, directing, editing, and best picture of the year, and won the Golden Globe. In acting in 1958.
There may be dozens of movies adapted from Agatha Christie’s works in almost all languages from France to India, but this is one of the earliest cinematic works that have embodied her stories, and came to light at a time when Ms. Agatha’s fame was at its height, which tells of the murder A lonely and wealthy old lady, Leonard Fall, who is so close to the only lady recently, was arrested to the point that she recommended that he inherit from her property, which led to his accusation.
The movie is based on a short story, but director Billy Ryder managed to make the story vibrant as critics point out. He weaved the court’s conversations so well that the courtroom was full of life, and he made some minor changes, preferring the end of the play. The same story, about the end of the original short story.
5 – The Mirror crack’d– 1980
The Mirror Crack’d tells the story of Miss Marble, one of the most famous female characters in Agatha Christie’s novels, along with the detective Hercule Poirot, who appeared in more than 32 works of the author between novels and short stories. She appeared in a short story published in Royal Magazine in 1927, the nucleus with which Agatha began her series.
The movie tells the story of a murder, located in the village of St. Mary, home of Miss Marple, after the arrival of a large crowd of Hollywood to shoot a dramatic movie about Mary Queen and Queen Elizabeth I, which requires the arrival of Marble to solve the mystery, and decipher the crime that killed a local woman Simple, while intended for a movie celebrity who came to the city.
Critics point to the novel and the movie as pure fantasy in its most horrifying form. Not working with Detective Poirot with his arrogance and arrogance; he would not have accepted the advice and suggestions of an old lady.
6 – The Alphabet Murders– 1965
The Alphabet murders is a series of movies about Belgian investigator Poirot, but if the previous movies on this list have dealt with novels and stories in horrific and interesting ways, this movie has sought to address the murders in the form of comedy, which lost the story of course , But he made a parody of the original, which distinguishes him.
The movie tells of Detective Poirot, who is called to investigate a series of crimes in London, and shortly thereafter Poirot notes that the only link that brings the victims together is their names. The murderer is killed by the initials according to the alphabet.
7 – A Night Of Terror– 1937
Known as ‘Love from a Stranger’, A Night Of Terror is based on a play by the same name by Frank Fosper in 1936, but the play itself was adapted from a short story by Agatha Christie. In the lottery, however, her sudden wealth has led to disagreements between her and her fiancé, leading to separation, and then she marries a mysterious man, who later turns out to be troubled, and may endanger her life.
The movie is classified as a horror movie, with the character of the stranger added to the nervous tension, and actor Basil Rathbone played this role, according to critics, which later qualified him to play an important role in the movie Son of Frankenstein.
