While I love that I now own a Suchet Poirot on Blu Ray, that last time I watched this back on August for a Friday Frights filled with snow, I (and wasn't the only one) noticed two things that were a bit problematic. One: the blu ray has some problems in places--they show up in the darks that are supposed to be rich and error free--ok, that's a manufacturing problem.
The second problem that really grated on me, which I admit I didn't really notice the first (and only) time I watched it, was the odd devotion that Poirot suddenly has in "supernatural" matters. Granted, I remember reading this several times years and years ago and remember well Poirot's outrage in the narrative as being intense--but religious it was not (unless I just don't remember correctly). Also, granted, as the Poirot movies have moved through the series, the later ones get darker and darker, but having Poirot walk off in a "haze" clinging a rosary--that's over the top. I love this series so much that it bugs me that it went that far. I don't know if it's Suchet, or the sense of the dealing with such a popular Christie story--don't know, but I'm sure that the ever logical Belgian turn English detective, is/was not a morose fall back on what Poirot seemed to regard as illogical in Christie's writing. In this sense, the 1974 film with Albert Finney really follows the novel much more faithfully.
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