Can the Germans Make Love Like The French? This “Love from a Stranger” (1967) showed us how (ep. 40)
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The episode reviews the 1967 German TV adaptation of 'Love from a Stranger' and discusses its connections to Agatha Christie's works.
Warning: SPOILERS! This is our last version of “Love from a Stranger”! This time it’s the German TV version from 1967. Based on the short story “Philomel House” and a play Christie wrote, the play was rewritten by Frank Vosper but published with his sole credit. “Agatha Christie, They Watch” reviews the adaptations of Agatha Christie’s novels in their order of publication. Teresa Peschel, author of "Agatha Christie, She Watched" and the "International Agatha Christie, She Watched," hosts our livestream. Joining Teresa is her husband, technical adviser, and straight man, Bill Peschel. Together, they are Peschel Press, publisher of intriguing, intelligent, and idiosyncratic books (www.peschelpress.com). HOW TO SEE THIS MOVIE: YouTube: https://youtu.be/whw95ux9WVE NEXT WEEK: We start on the next novel in the Christie chronology: “Lord Edgware Dies.” This is the 1934 version starring the first movie Poirot, Austin Trevor, and Richard Cooper as his Captain Hastings. See you next Thursday! HOW TO SEE IT: YouTube: https://youtu.be/5MPZbhpdxPU WHERE TO FIND US Peschel Press: www.peschelpress.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peschel_press/ LOOK UP OUR BOOKS…
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- Poirot Loses His Heart to a Pretty Girl in the French version of “Peril at End House” (ep. 35)
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