Murder in Three Acts Page #6

Synopsis: Hercule Poirot's assistant, Hastings, calls him down to Acapulco in Mexico where he can write his memoirs but Hastings drags him to a party populated with Hastings' new friends. There's Janet Crisp - the writer, Daisy Eastman and her daughter 'Egg', Ricardo Montoya, Dr. Strange, Miss Milray the housekeeper and Charles Cartwright the famous American actor. But at the party another guest - Rev. Babbington - dies from poisoning and when Dr. Strange also dies from poisoning, Poirot must swing into action before the serial killer strikes again...
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Gary Nelson
Production: Warner Bros. Television
 
IMDB:
6.3
NOT RATED
Year:
1986
94 min
428 Views


Is this.

While everyone watched what

happened to Charles...

...I had time to change

cups without anyone noticing.

And that's what I did exactly the murderer

twice.

The first time in the Crow's Nest and

the second time in the Castle.

So, you know who is the murderer?

No, really, but..

That the murderer could

strike again at any time...

So please, if you know something

of the two deaths in question,

Not have told me, please

let me know promptly...

I beg you.

And ask.. with deadly seriousness.

Do not?

Thanks.

What is it?

- A telegram for you, old friend.

Excuse me.

I see it as soon as possible.

I have valuable information

about the death of Dr. Strange.

Signed by Margaret Rasbridger.

M. Margaret...

I worry M.

That said Wally's journal.

Yeah, yeah, you're right.

Charles, I think it's good to go to her.

Colonel Matthew informs on this meeting.

Then Charles accompanies the sanatorium.

Okay.

Thank you.

And what will you do?

I'm not going anywhere.

This case is so complex,

it my duty to stay here.

To think.

OK?

We have to tell Monsieur Poirot.

Ricardo has a confession to make.

A confession?

Come in, please.

Now Of what nature is this confession?

It's not what you think, Monsieur Poirot.

I am not the murderer.

But Egg

has convinced me to read other things.

Miss Egg quite right.

But why would I think that was

You murderer.

By the way appeared in the Castle.

But the truth is that the

Dr. Strange and asked him.

Yes, I wrote that he should

fake an accident and then climb.

Castle...

...said he could not write his reasons,

But then I'd explain.

And of course explained it later?

I had no chance.

- If.

Do you have a copy of the letter?

No.

He said he destroyed it.

Does that called?

And there's something else, tell Ricardo.

Well, after I asked Colonel Matthew.

Was 10.

I went to get my coat.

Miss Crisp was there, said he

was looking for her shawl...

...or something.

Anyway, when I went to put my jacket

something fell from it.

What did you fall?

Not really saw him fall.

Do you understand?

So what was it?

That she picked it up and handed it to me.

It was a newspaper clipping

about the Benzotina...

...and its deadly effects.

She had put it in his jacket to Ricardo.

Remember what Freddie said Dayton?

Like sniffing saw his room that night.

Bet she's the killer.

What motive would have to..

Kill the Reverend Babbington?

A man who had not seen before.

Least of Dr. Strange.

No.

- Maybe it's a psychopath.

Hates men.

Smart people tend to madness.

Not so fast, Egg.

This is Hastings.

Poirot.

Oh. Not so fast,

Hastings.

What.

Oh, no, no.

Yeah, I know.

Yes, yes, I see.

Understand.

Yes, I understand.

Bye.

Thank Hastings.

Goodbye.

Mrs. Rasbridger has been murdered.

No?

- Yes.

How?

This morning

received by mail a box of chocolates...

Liqueur fillings.. with Benzotina.

Could you say something?

No, I think it probably was murdered..

For not saying anything.

What do you mean?

I do not understand.

Not me. And the telegram?

Hastings received the

telegram, he delivered a boy...

I got from an old gardener sanatorium.

I had seen him fall a window.

Involved in a 500 peso bill.

According to the boy, the gardener had

said to stay with the change.

Delivered by him, the telegram.

I still do not understand.

What's wrong with that?

YES.

Play often the family happy, while...

...solves his cases, Monsieur Poirot?

Oh this is a memory from my childhood.

When I was very young...

Used them to learn to concentrate.

Never quit.

What will that mean Mr. Mug?

Mr. mug, the milkman,

ding, ding. I remember, yes.

Is Charles. Edward W.

Muggins was his real name

before becoming an actor.

The real name of Charles is Muggins?

Really?

Probably looked well.

Did he give you any ideas?

No, to my knowledge.

Where all this leads, Poirot?

If you do not mind, I'm

sorry to be so unsociable...

...but I need to concentrate

as he had never done before.

Do you think that will be sure

to attend the function...

...tomorrow night?

He's Work.

We have invited all the rehearsal.

What did you say?

Rehearsal.

Rehearsal.

What?

How blind I was.

Rehearsal.

Miss Milray. Good afternoon.

Sorry, no Charles...

Mr. Cartwright not here.

I know, but he and the

others will come soon...

The others?

- Yes, all.

Including the police.

Mrs. Rasbridger found dead this afternoon.

Charles and Hastings just called.

How was she killed?

She was poisoned, mademoiselle.

With Benzotina.

I wonder if

can prepare large amounts of tea?

Research can long endure.

If.

Can not do that, mademoiselle.

What is trying to destroy the evidence.

Reconstruct a crime

and make it make sense,

both the common man, as the lawyer.

And sometimes even to criminal himself.

It is the solemn duty of the detective.

Should prepare your case as if

a house of cards they were.

Willing to resist all

efforts to bring him down.

Start So, my friends,

at the beginning, with the

murder of Reverend Babbington...

You were right, mademoiselle Egg.

And I was wrong.

You and Charles Cartwright believed.

Reverend Babbington had been killed.

I thought it was not possible

to impose a victim...

...a drink,

a drink in particular that

has a cart full of identical cups.

All this is not obvious, Monsieur Poirot.

Maybe for you, sir...

Mrs., but not for me.

The second crime was announced I...

...by Mr. Charles

Cartwright in Los Angeles.

E immediately realized...

...both formed two parts of the same crime.

But who could have been there?

To murder the Reverend Babbington.

One is Miss Milray.

And the other Charles Cartwright.

But neither

was present in the second murder.

The main suspect in the second

crime was Carlos Morales.

Butler seems to have

vanished into thin air.

Although there was a guest who

attracted attention for a moment,

Not so, Mr. Montoya.

When we were introduced by Miss Egg.

They referred to you as a Communist.

She said, laughing,

And I smiled at that, until

I noticed a look of...

...hostility between you

and the Reverend Babbington.

We had our differences, Mr. Poirot.

Especially because of Central America.

Nothing serious, just discussions.

In any case, I'm not a communist.

My respect for personal freedoms is such.

I do not mind their beliefs.

Long as not culminate in a murder.

However, their performance

in the second party...

...was unusual.

Appeared looking disheveled...

...pretending to have had an

accident in the vicinity.

Later I explained that this...

...scene itself was the

brainchild of Dr. Strange...

...asked to represent

comedy that in a letter that you destroyed.

Convinces nor with that

newspaper clipping...

..., falling from..

Pocket of his jacket, he spoke of

Benzotina course.

Someone must have put it there

. Since we told.

Perhaps, mademoiselle

Egg. But who was?

Miss Crisp Maybe we can.

Shed light on the obvious.

In fact, I agree with you mademoiselle Egg,

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