Record Number |
805354 |
Title |
Agatha Christie's ordeal by innocence [videorecording]. |
Publisher/Date |
Australia : Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Australia, [2019] |
Pagination etc. |
1 videodisc (173 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm. |
Contents note |
Based on the Ordeal by innocence by Agatha Christie. |
Creation Note |
Director Sandra Goldbacher ; writer Sarah Phelps ; producer Roopesh Parekh. |
Performer note |
Bill Nighy, Anna Chancellor, Matthew Goode. |
Summary Note |
Christmas 1954. Wealthy philanthropist Rachel Argyll is murdered at her family estate Sunny Point. Her adopted son Jack Argyll is arrested for her murder. He vehemently protests his innocence. Eighteen months later, Dr Arthur Calgary (Luke Treadaway), a mysterious scientist, walks onto the velvety lawns of Sunny Point claiming to have just returned from an expedition to the Arctic. Even more extraordinary is his claim to hold the alibi that can prove Jack's innocence. But Jack died in prison before the case could come to trial and the Argyll family is reluctant to dig up the secrets of the past. Rachel's widower Leo (Bill Nighy) is about to marry his secretary Gwenda (Alice Eve) and non of Rachel's other adopted children Mary (Eleanor Tomlinson), Mickey (Christian Cooke), Tina (Crystal Clarke) or Hester (Ella Purnell), nor longstanding housekeeper Kirsten (Morven Christie), is willing to reopen that most horrendous chapter of their lives. However, the shattering implications of Calgary's story are too big to avoid; if he is telling the truth then the wrong person was arrested for Rachel's murder. And if Jack is innocent, then it must have been somebody else at Sunny Point. Somebody still out there... |
Target audience note |
Censorship classification : MA15+. |
Language note |
In English. English captions [Descriptive subtitles for the hearing impaired]. |
Subject |
Detective and mystery films |
Philanthropists -- Drama |
Fathers and sons -- Drama |
Murder -- Drama |
Television series |
Detective and mystery television programs |
Television adaptations |
Added Author |
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 author. Ordeal by innocence, |
Goldbacher, Sandra director. |
Phelps, Sarah producer. |
Parekh, Roopesh producer. |
Nighy, Bill actor. |
Chancellor, Anna actor. |
Goode, Matthew actor. |
Shelf Location |
DVD F AGAT |