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good back-story, and good acting

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

In this episode of Poirot, "Hickory Dickory Dock," from season 6, Poirot offers to help Miss Lemon's sister, who runs a hostel. Objects are missing from the rooms, and some of them are strange: a shoe, a belt, a bracelet, a stethoscope - almost sounds like a scavenger hunt.One of the women living at the hostel, Celia, announces that she is a kleptomaniac. Poirot is told by a fellow student that it isn't true -- she was trying to attract a psychiatry major, so she stole things to be more interesting to him. Celia also says that she didn't steal everything but knows who the other culprit is. She then dies when someone puts morphine in place of a sleeping powder. That's the first murder. More to follow.It's an intriguing case which underlies a much bigger one that includes smuggling, hidden identities (several), and the murder of a statesman's wife ten years ago that has similarities to the current murders. Japp always held the statesman responsible for his wife's death; now he is dying in the hospital.the thief to the grave.Meanwhile, Japp's wife is out of town and he's a mess, so Poirot invites him to move in until his wife returns. Japp is then subjected to Poirot's idea of food and is mystified by the bidet. Very funny.Some of this mystery isn't hard to figure out if you've seen hundreds of this type of thing as I have, but it's still a good mystery with several layers. This isn't really an early episode, as it's from season 6, but it retains some of the first Poirots in its humor and the personality of Poirot. And that makes it fun to watch.

The annoying mouse and lullaby really got to me and really had nothing to do with the story...It's something I would have done my 1st year in film school. Very sad. Additionally, the story just seemed to drag on for no apparent reason...there were too many things just thrown in there that had nothing to do with the story, which makes me feel that the creative team didn't really know what they were doing, or just that it should have been shorter...which would have been a blessing, not a crime. As I have just watched all of the episodes up to this point over the past week...I'd have to say that this was by far the worst, and I just wanted to warn others not to start with this one.

This story was never among my favourites in Christie's works so I was pleasantly surprised to quite enjoy this adaptation. The mouse motif was effective if a little overdone, the bones of the story are there although more emphasis is placed on the 'crime in the past' subplot. The students were all pretty much as I imagined them although its a pity they weren't a more cosmopolitan bunch - perhaps the revised thirties setting didn't allow for that! I thought some very daring risks were taken with the filming; perhaps its because I've not long re-read the book but it seemed pretty obvious to me who the murderer was from their appearance in some reveal shots quite early on.Humour was much more prevalent in these early Poirots. Sometimes it works but I found a lot of it rather heavy handed in this episode (though I did smile at the 'Lemon sole' throwaway line). Altogether though, a solid entry in the series though not one of the best.

It all begins with a series of thefts of seemingly unrelated objects in a hostel for students on Hickory Road, London. Concerned for her sister, who is the housekeeper there, Miss Lemon asks Hercule Poirot to look into the matter. He agrees, but soon the stakes get higher when a girl, who had admitted that she was responsible for most (not all) of the thefts, is found murdered."Hickory Dickory Dock" is a solid brain exercise, without being as mind-numbingly complicated as "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe". Murder, theft and diamond smuggling are the crimes involved, and the final twist that ties everything together is revealed only in the last 2 minutes! The characters are interesting, particularly the psychology student Colin McNabb and the mysterious American girl Sally Finch, Inspector Japp has his funny moments (in perhaps the closest this series has come to "toilet humor"), and Miss Lemon gets a more integral part to the story than usual. (***)