This is a double-edged sword - Peters easily carries the film as the main character, but if you’re a purest and wish to see an accurate and fair adaptation of Christie’s actual story, this misses the mark. The film-makers actually turned this into Mayhew’s story, more than those more central to the mystery itself. But the film’s real star is the diminutive Toby Jones as Vole’s desperate attorney, John Mayhew. The performances in this teleplay version of The Witness for the Prosecution were superb, with great work from Kim Cattrall as the victim, Monica Dolan as the maid, and Andrea Riseborough as Romaine, the “wife”. But there are still more twists and turns to come. Vole’s attorney takes the case to court, only to have the “wife” turn on Vole and provide testimony on behalf of the prosecution in the case. Despite the victim’s maid’s assertions that Vole killed her, he says his “wife”, a dance-hall girl, can provide his alibi. Set in the early 1920s, the mystery revolves around the brutal murder of a socialite, ostensibly by Leonard Vole, a much younger man (a recent WWI veteran) who she had been using as a gigolo. This 2016 was written by Sarah Phelps and directed by Julian Jerrold, and goes places the previous versions did not. Billy Wilder and his creative partners adapted it again for the feature film, and it has been adapted several times for television in both the UK and US. Christie also adapted her story as a full-length stage play, which premiered in 1953. Both that film and this TV-movie, are based on a Dame Agatha short story, originally published as “Traitor’s Hands” in the UK in 1925, and subsequently reprinted under the more familiar title. I’ve never seen the original 1957 film, Witness for the Prosecution, starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton, despite being a life-long fan of Agatha Christie. The Agatha Awards began in 1988, and are presented at the annual Malice Domestic literary conference. The Agatha Awards are given out, in several categories, each year for the Best Traditional Mysteries, as epitomized by the works of Agatha Christie.
Below, you’ll find all of the Christie-related reviews that have appeared in the Staff Recommendations pages of BookGuide, starting in August 2005 and going through the present day.Īlso - check out the Agatha Awards page.
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Christie is the best-selling mystery novelist of all time, and her written works have been adapted into numerous other formats, especially TV and movie versions of her stories.
Ever since we started publishing book, audiobook and DVD reviews on the BookGuide Staff Recommendations pages, the works of Agatha Christie have made regular appearances.