Agatha
Christie's Poirot -
'Cards on the Table'
based
on the novel by Agatha Christie; screenplay by Nick Dear
An Agatha Christie Ltd., A&E Television Networks
Inc., Granada Television, and ITV production.
First broadcast on A&E, 11th December 2005. To
be broadcast on ITV in 2006.
Director: Sarah Harding
Producer: Trevor Hopkins
Associate Producer: David Suchet
Executive Producers: Michele Buck; Phil Clymer;
Delia Fine; Damien Timmer
Original Music: Stephen McKeon
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Cast
(main
characters, in
alphabetical order) |
Philip Bowen.....Mr. Luxmore
Cordelia Bugeja.....Mrs. Luxmore
James Fox.....Colonel Race
Tristan Gemmil.....Major Despard
Alex Jennings.....Dr. Roberts
Lucy Liemann.....Miss Burgess
Lesley Manville.....Mrs. Lorrimer
Lyndsey Marshal.....Anne Meredith
Robert Pugh.....Colonel Hughes
Douglas Reith.....Serge Maurice
Alexander Siddig.....Mr. Shaitana
David Suchet.....Hercule Poirot
Zoë Wanamaker.....Ariadne Oliver
Honeysuckle Weeks.....Rhoda Dawes
David Westhead.....Superintendent Battle
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Production |
| Veteran detective
Hercule Poirot is invited to an evening of bridge - with a
twist. Alongside fellow sleuths Superintendent Battle,
Ariadne Oliver, and Colonel Race, Poirot must discover which of
the other guests at Mr. Shaitana's party is a murderer.
One of four new adaptations of some of Agatha Christie's Poirot novels
(the others works to be filmed are Mystery of the Blue Train,
After the Funeral, and Taken at the Flood), Cards on the Table
will be broadcast in the UK in 2006. |
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Thanks to Noah for some of this information. |
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