Dead Man's Folly Page #4

Synopsis: Hercule Poirot is called in by his crime writer friend, Ariadne Oliver and discovers that she is troubled. She has been asked to create a "Murder Hunt" game for a fair at Nass House and she is puzzled with all the help she is getting. Poirot and his assistant, Captain Hastings arrive at the fair to see what is going on. They find a couple on the brink of divorce, a rich Lord and a dizzy Lady, an old lady, trapped in the horrors of the past and a womanizing architect. Things take a turn for the worse when during the "Murder Hunt" the girl playing the "dead" body is murdered for real, an old man's body is pulled from the local lake and the Lady of the manor goes missing when a face from her past shows up. It is clear to Poirot that someone is playing the game for real and he sets out to discover who it is...
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Clive Donner
Production: Warner Bros. Television
 
IMDB:
6.4
NOT RATED
Year:
1986
90 min
551 Views


...Eddie received a letter from South

.. three months ago?

No. Only this morning.

Do you know that lady Stubbs

you so afraid of Eddie South?

Well, it was very clear on that.

Said pure childishness.

Not pay much attention to what he says

Hattie sometimes.

What exactly said,

please?

About Eddie South?

- Si.

She said:

'He kills people.'

'He kills people'?

Do not take seriously what it says.

I worship Hattie, but..

But to say that kills people.

How many keys are there in the boathouse

?

Amanda...

- Three.

I have one.

And no other hidden in

folly for hunting crime.

Van two.

The third is in that drawer.

Yes, that is.

Ms. Oliver,

I think the role of the young, Marlene,

Was sleep and play was dead.

If noise heard someone approaching.

If it is correct.

But given the fact that all

the keys are identified...

,

is possible that instead of playing dead,

to open the door to her murderer...

...simply because it recognized the... or her.

Okay.

I agree with Ms. Oliver.

The murderer was aware of 'hunting crime'.

Sorry. I'll see if Hattie back to your room.

She's not in her room.

Obviously this avoiding Eddie South.

's What I said.

Only have your word on

fear she has for Eddie South.

How do we know it?

Women sometimes say things that are not.

How do you know?

- I'd rather not discuss that.

Between 4 and 4:
30.

Was my time off.

Take you.

In the tent for you.

- Yeah, exactly.

Ms. Folliat Was there?

No.

Mr. Legge,

Where were you?

That was the time when back to our cabin.

So they sent for me.

I was sick, of course.

I was sick.

Sick and tired.

Michael Weyman is an

architect and work here.

Hastings..

Not interested to hear Michael Weyman?

Remember what we saw..

If. But I'm interested to hear more

Mrs. Folliat...

...before police talk to her.

Where were you between 4:00 and 4:30?

Was it when she was killed?

.

How exactly know what?

At four, Lady Stubbs sent to Miss Brewis...

...to bring a snack to Marlene Tucker.

A the boathouse..

- That do not believe it ever.

What do not you think?

You say the

Hattie sent something to another person.

So.

Ever. Opposed to his character.

Hattie is totally obsessed with him.

She would not send or cough syrup

Camelia.

Can we go?

- Si.

Guess who comes to speak of the tragedy.

That poor, poor girl.

Just yesterday I said that

was a wicked world.

But I never thought something

like this would happen.

I can offer you?

I will put the..

Oh, no, no, just a moment we.

Can you prove where he was all afternoon?

No, I can not prove where

was all afternoon.

Walk around. vi.

tourists behave... as tourists.

Talk to the movie star.

That if it is a gem.

Do you happen to speak with Lady Stubbs?

I had no chance.

Mannequin of parading

as a department store.

When Stubbs lady saw him last?

Not know. Perhaps at 3:30, why?

At that time saw for the last time.

Seems faded.

Vanished?

Wonderful.

Enjoys Lady Stubbs has disappeared?

Hattie is playing the naive helpless,

But knows what makes. I guarantee it.

Really?

I think Ms. Folliat taught enough.

So I present Sir George, did you know?

Maybe Ms. Folliat

no longer owns the property,

but could teach survival tricks Marines.

Do not have family photos, Ms Folliat?

When you lose family,

your photos are just a memory.

Y memory is like dead wood.

Must be removed if one should continue.

I say he lost his two sons.

If. Henry because of an illness.

Jamie, the youngest,

died in the army.

My husband's tragedy was that he lived too

,

squandered the family fortune.

Know not find Lady Stubbs?

Do not talk about Hattie.

Do not want to think about it.

Just this morning she also spoke of evil,

course she meant the young American

yacht.

Suddenly seems to be everywhere evil.

What a coincidence.

For Hattie no in between.

Only black and white.

Good and bad.

Like a child.

Children are capricious, or so they say,

I have the privilege of

meeting many in person.

They are lovely and docile at a time,

and gives a tantrum the next.

But in adults with infantile characteristics,

such tantrum can become

a rage so violent..

.. That..

.. Or she..

.. Could.. kill.

Hattie never did.

I will not say things like that about her.

Was a kind and gentle girl.

My Hattie never kill anyone.

Sorry to disturb.

I'm Detective Inspector Bland.

I can talk to you?

Yeah, go ahead.

Spend all.

Where I was between 4:00 and 4:30?

Was tea time.

I helped serve in the tent.

Do you happen to see something..?

Sorry, sorry.

'No, please.

- Do not worry.

You first.

- Really?

I'm after.

Saw Ms. Legge in the tent?

No, I do not think I saw her.

Did I overlook?

Oh no. I intended greet everyone.

Of course Ms. Brewis says.

Lady Stubbs the command

with a snack for Marlene...

.

And Michael Weyman says

that's not possible.

I agree.

Ms. Legge said he had tea...

...between 4:
00 and 4:30.

Y Mrs. Folliat says it was not her.

Sir George into their pools.

- Although no one saw.

Perhaps the old saw Eddie South

get off the yacht.

Not been interrogated yet.

I will tomorrow morning.

Alec Legge has no alibi.

- Nor Michael Weyman.

All this is fascinating.

And you would have to do it every day.

Well, do draw conclusions?

Yes, a few conclusions.

Who do you think is the murderer?

Marlene's murderer or Lady Stubbs?

Lady Stubbs.

Do you think she was killed?

Yeah, I think she was killed.

I can not imagine why.

Because Ms. Folliat think she was killed.

She never said that.

Whatever he says Ms. Folliat...

...o...

...think what you think or

what you intend to say,

she believes Hattie killed.

Ms. Folliat know...

..... But us.

This is amazing.

Marlene... Hattie and then disappears.

Why run away?

I was happy with her new ring,

enjoy the show...

Believe me, you never

know the nonsense...

...that women can do.

Never know.

I'm sorry.

We must do something.

Amanda, put an ad in the papers for her.

She does not read newspapers;

could put in vogue perhaps see there.

Anything. Bland'll call.

Men are such fools.

And because it makes

such a remark, Miss?

They are very clever for many things,

then marrying the wrong woman.

Do you mean that Lady Stubbs was

...is the wrong woman?

Totally.

Mocks him, and of the Michael Weyman.

Mr. Weyman would be wrong...

...if it had another rabbit roasting.

To which relates another rabbit?

A Sally Legge.

She recommended him to Sir

George as an architect.

She and mr. Weyman knew Chelsea...

...when she aspired to be an artist.

Before marriage, of course...

I do not like gossip.

But Sir George, with appropriate

wife at his side,

could achieve great things

in business, politics...

Your skills and potential

are suffocated by the...

You excuse me?

I have work to do.

Mr. Poirot.

Where are you?

Oh there it is.

You and I need to talk.

I'm going down now.

Poirot, I bet you know wine.

My Way.

I can show you the winery?

I need to talk in private.

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