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"THE MOONSTONE" (1996) Review

Following my viewing of the 1997 television movie, "THE WOMAN IN WHITE", I followed up with an adaptation of another Wilkie Collins' novel, "THE MOONSTONE". Like the other adaption, this adaptation had been produced back in the 1990s as a television movie. ( Collapse )

Below are images from "THE MOONSTONE", the 1996 adaptation of Wilkie Collins' 1868 mystery novel. Directed by Robert Bierman, the television drama starred Greg Wise, Peter Vaughan, Antony Sher and Keely Hawes: ( Collapse )

Below is a list of my favorite television productions set in the 1840s: ( Collapse )

"THE CLOCKS" (2009) Review

While perusing the list of novels written by Agatha Christie between 1957 and 1973, I noticed that only five of them featured Belgian detective Hercule Poirot as the main detective. Five out of sixteen novels during this period. Considering how the author used to churn out Poirot novels and short stories like nobody's business in the previous decades, I could not help but wonder if the author's interest in the Belgian detective was on the wane. ( Collapse )

Below are images from "THE CLOCKS", the 2009 adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1963 novel. The movie starred David Suchet as Hercule Poirot: ( Collapse )

"RETURN TO CRANFORD" (2009) Review

Due to the success of the 2007 miniseries, "CRANFORD", the BBC aired a two-part sequel called "RETURN TO CRANFORD" (also known as the "CRANFORD CHRISTMAS SPECIAL"), some two years later. Like the original miniseries, it was adapted by Heidi Thomas and directed by Simon Curtis. ( Collapse )

Below are images from "RETURN TO CRANFORD", the 2009 sequel to the 2007 miniseries, "CRANFORD" and adaptation of two novellas and a short story written by Elizabeth Gaskell and published between 1849 and 1863. Adapted by Heidi Thomas and created by Sue Birtwistle and Susie Conklin; the two-part miniseries starred Judi Dench: ( Collapse )