An ideal version of Agatha Christie's classic mystery novel. Working backwards, the film chronicles the confessions found in a killer's diary in the not-so-friendly hamlet of King's Abbot. Guilt-ridden Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) believes he should have noticed the warning signs preceeding the murder of his friend, industrialist Roger Ackroyd (Malcolm Terris). Ackroyd's affair with the widowed Dottie Ferrars (Rosalind Bailey) should have fired up Poirot's "little gray cells" — after all, she was being blackmailed about her husband's untimely death. And though Poirot once financed Ackroyd's prosperous chemical laboratory, not everyone shared Poirot's high opini...
Released:
2000
Rated:
NR
Length:
100 mins