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A classic mystery from Agatha Christie's Poirot series, starring David Suchet as the Belgian detective. Poirot returns to his homeland to solve a case from his early days as a policeman, involving a politician's death and a box of chocolates.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Ken Grieve
- 1993-02-21
Find out who starred in the TV episode of Poirot based on Agatha Christie's story "The Chocolate Box". See the full list of actors, directors, writers, producers and more on IMDb.
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The Chocolate Box is the sixth episode of series 5 of the ITV British television drama series Agatha Christie's Poirot featuring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot, first broadcast on 7 February 1993 in the UK and was directed by Ken Grieve with dramatisation by Douglas Watkinson. The episode is an adaptation of Agatha Christie's short story of the sam...
While in Belgium, Poirot recounts to Chief Inspector Japp a case from twenty years prior. During his early days in the Belgian police, he looked into the suspicious death of the young politician Paul Deroulard, at the request of the charming Virginie Mesnard.
•Compared with the original, this adaptation is considerably embellished for dramatic purposes although the main premise of the story is retained.
•Rather than simply narrate the events to Hastings, Poirot actually goes to Brussels with Japp in the 1930s. There Poirot meets Saint Alard and so recalls the events of the Chocolate Box which happened around 1898--the time when Dutch was recognized as an official language along with French. Hastings does not occur in the adaptation. Japp does but he did not in the original. There are additional non-canonical supporting characters such as Jean-Louis Ferraud, Chantalier and Boucher.
•The character of John Wilson is replaced by a Deroulard neighbour Gaston Beaujeu who has roughly the same plot role in that he uses trinitrin.
•The death of Marianne is dramatised in flashback.
•The political disagreement between Deroulard and St Alard are faithful to the original but in this case, Deroulard is Belgian and not French and he is already in the governnent. Here the disagreement is about Deroulard wanting to integrate Belgium by making ther Flemish language on par with French.
•The additional character Jean-Louis Ferraud fills the role of an unnamed pharmacist in the original. He tells Poirot about the effects of atropine and trinitrin. He also analyses some bits of chocolate and confirms the presence of trinitrin.
•David Suchet as Hercule Poirot
•Philip Jackson as Chief Inspector Japp
•Rosalie Crutchley as Madame Déroulard
•Anna Chancellor as Virginie Mesnard
•David de Keyser as Gaston Beaujeu
•Jonathan Hackett as Claude Chantalier
•Cogels-Osylei 41, Antwerp - The 'Deroulard's' residence.
•Antwerpen Centraal Station, 2060 Antwerp - Brussels Station, Poirot & Japp arrive in Belgium.
•Hotel Metropole Brussels, Pl. De Brouckère 31, 1000 Bruxelles - Poirot and Japp's hotel.
•Law Courts of Brussels, Palais de Justice, Pl. Poelaert 1, 1000 Bruxelles - Poirot and Chantalier tell Boucher they would be happy to investigate the case.
•Triumphal Arch, Monument du Cinquantenaire, Tun. Cinquantenaire 27, 1040 Bruxelles - Japp asks Poirot to take a photograph
•Grand-Place de Bruxelles, 1000 Bruxelles - Poirot plays chess with Francois.
•Lia in Brussels - blog entry with descriptions of the varios filming locations
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Poirot recounts his only failed case to Hastings, involving the death of a French Deputy in Brussels. This story was adapted for the TV series Agatha Christie’s Poirot in 1993.
Nov 29, 2022 · The Chocolate Box. It was a wild night. Outside, the wind howled malevolently, and the rain beat against the windows in great gusts. Poirot and I sat facing the hearth, our legs stretched out to the cheerful blaze. Between us was a small table. On my side of it stood some carefully brewed hot toddy; on Poirot's was a cup of thick, rich ...
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A trip home to Belgium with Japp causes Poirot to reopen a case that he failed to solve 20 years earlier.
