Dead Man's Folly Page #2

Synopsis: Hercule Poirot is called in by his crime writer friend, Ariadne Oliver and discovers that she is troubled. She has been asked to create a "Murder Hunt" game for a fair at Nass House and she is puzzled with all the help she is getting. Poirot and his assistant, Captain Hastings arrive at the fair to see what is going on. They find a couple on the brink of divorce, a rich Lord and a dizzy Lady, an old lady, trapped in the horrors of the past and a womanizing architect. Things take a turn for the worse when during the "Murder Hunt" the girl playing the "dead" body is murdered for real, an old man's body is pulled from the local lake and the Lady of the manor goes missing when a face from her past shows up. It is clear to Poirot that someone is playing the game for real and he sets out to discover who it is...
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Clive Donner
Production: Warner Bros. Television
 
IMDB:
6.4
NOT RATED
Year:
1986
90 min
516 Views


A building needs basis, not just a front

ornamental.

Okay everyone,

pay attention, I will explain..

My 'hunting the murderer.'

This is a map of the place and

the cast of characters.

The first is a nuclear scientist.

And possibly a spy.

His first wife is dead,

or maybe not...

His second wife left him,

and hides in

youth hostel. She is from Yugoslavia.

Find the first track in the

photo, at the foot of the page.

Obviously, it's some kind of mesh.

Maybe a tennis net?

'All right.

- Malla courts?

And professional speaking.

Remember.

All tracks lead to the boathouse.

Yugoslav Where wife was

strangled with a rope.

Do you want to ask a question?

I must see if Hattie needs something.

I'm sure that the

Mr. Poirot and Captain Hastings...

...want to see your room and

freshen up before dinner.

'I see you understand.

- Thank you.

'Take this.

- Okay.

And Captain Hastings will

be in the next door.

Really.

Hello.

Hope everything is satisfactory.

And to whom we owe all

these considerations...

?

You Miss Brewis or our charming hostess?

Lady Stubbs

devotes his time to be charming.

Is a very decorative.

As you wish.

Perhaps intellectual achievements are not..

I should not say that.

Lady Stubbs, apart from

being very decorative...

,

is also extremely clever.

This is yours right?

Oh yeah.

Thanks.

Poirot...

...Come see this.

Removes her shoes.

It Weyman.

I know who is.

Is Weyman.

Do not lose sight.

I'm sorry.

Where? Where?

At this time the air is good for you lungs.

46.47...

You all right, Mr. Poirot?

Let me accompany her home.

Thanks.

It was I who introduced him to Sir

Hattie George.

If... the deliberately influences.

Was a very good turn calculated.

Why do you say that?

After everything housing won with that.

Do you know these lines of Spencer?

Sleep after work.

Puerto, after storms.

Paz, after the war.

Death, afterlife,

always pleased.

This is a very wicked world,

Mr. Poirot.

And there are many people in the perverse.

Probably you know as well as I do.

Do not say this to young

people, could discourage...

.

But the world is very evil.

Shuttle, sir?

Do not do that.

Is extremely dangerous.

Shuttle, sir?

- Shuttle? no thanks.

Just take a walk.

I am at home Nasse.

Again be like old times.

The last Folliat leave the collapse...

...only interested in the

horses... and the bottle.

Lost a fortune in both. That made.

I, I focus my vices.

No, I do not, please, no.

I do not want.

Is it French?

'm Belgian.

You sure do not want a drink?

On another occasion.

Rare and cunning are the Folliat.

Why do you say that?

There will always be at home Folliat Nasse.

Well now owned by Sir George Stubbs.

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Agatha Christie

Prolific author of mysteries in early part of 1900s. Creator of Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, a Belgian sleuth. more…

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