Film, TV or Theatrical Adaptations
First adapted to film with Peter Ustinov and Jean Stapleton starring as Poirot and Oliver in a 1986 adaptation set in the present-day. It was shot largely on location at West Wycombe Park in Buckinghamshire.
John Moffatt starred as Poirot in the BBC Radio 4 dramatisation broadcast in 2007, with Julia McKenzie as Ariadne Oliver.
The novel is set to be adapted in 2012 with David Suchet as Poirot, as part of the final series of Agatha Christie's Poirot.
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