Starring Max Irons, Stefanie Martini, Glenn Close, Christina Hendricks, Gillian Anderson, Terence Stamp, Julian Sands.Ĭrooked House is AVAILABLE to STREAM (At the time of this writing, it is available to stream for free with ads.)
To help keep this site running: Willow and Thatch may receive a commission when you click on any of the links on our site and make a purchase after doing so.Ĭrooked House (2017): In Agatha Christie’s most twisted tale, a spy-turned-private-detective is lured by his former lover to catch her grandfather’s murderer before Scotland Yard exposes dark family secrets. In an ongoing series for Willow and Thatch, Abby Murphy will be reviewing these films and comparing them with the original Christie works (but no spoilers!).įirst up is Crooked House, published in 1949. Here’s to crime! Thanks to the smash success of recent Agatha Christie adaptations, like Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express and BBC One’s And Then There Were None, there’s been a renewed interest in adapting the queen of crime’s novels for the screen.
The shocking ending in Crooked House is one of AgathaĬhristie’s greatest.Home » Period Drama Articles » Movie vs. I saved it up for years, thinking about it, working it out, saying to myself: ‘One day, when I’ve plenty of time, and want to really enjoy myself – I’ll begin it.’Ĭrooked House is one of the only Christie crime novels not to be adapted for the screen, although in 2008 it was adapted for BBC Radio 4 in four weekly 30 minute episodes. Agatha Christie writes: ‘This book is one of my own special favourite. Published in the US in March 1949, the title of Crooked House refers to the nursery rhyme ‘ There Was a Crooked Man.’ In the foreword of the book, Agatha Christie describes writing Crooked House as pure pleasure.
But the murderer has reckoned without the tenacity of Charles Hayward, fiancé of the late millionaire’s granddaughter. Suspicion naturally falls on the old man’s young widow, fifty years his junior. That is until the head of the household, Aristide, is murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection. The Leonides are one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion.
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