The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
- Episode aired Feb 18, 1990
- TV-14
- 51m
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When U.S. Navy plans for a new submarine are stolen and the thief tracked to London, the FBI sends an agent to work with Inspector Japp to recover them.When U.S. Navy plans for a new submarine are stolen and the thief tracked to London, the FBI sends an agent to work with Inspector Japp to recover them.When U.S. Navy plans for a new submarine are stolen and the thief tracked to London, the FBI sends an agent to work with Inspector Japp to recover them.
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- Russell Murray
- Agatha Christie(uncredited)
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- TriviaThe film they are watching in the theater in the opening scene is the James Cagney film "G Men". "G Man" is a formerly popular slang term meaning "Government Man" which applied to generally to federal agents, most commonly FBI agents.
- GoofsWhen the movie ends that Japp, Hastings and Poirot are watching, they (and most of the audience) leave immediately. When this show was set the national anthem was always played at the end of the movie and most people stood for it and didn't leave the cinema until it was over.
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Miss Felicity Lemon: Anyone who claims to have been stag-hunting in the Bois de Boulogne, Mister Poirot, has been seriously misinformed about life on the Continent!
- ConnectionsFeatures 'G' Men (1935)
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the invasion of the Americans
In Christie's original stories, she almost always wrote Americans as being rather loud and boorish and using vocabulary that seems odd to us Americans from less than 100 years further on. The television series, meanwhile, has had a shaky history of portraying Americans. Some of them have very peculiar ways of talking (Mrs. Vanderlay from "The Incredible Theft" comes to mind) and then others, like Charles Lester from "The Lost Mine" seem rather more natural. "The Third Floor Flat" has a preponderance of loud, boorish Americans, mostly gun-wielding gangsters and the gun-wielding officers of the law who pursue them. They are the standout feature of this episode, which is otherwise mildly amusing but not remarkable.
The plot is a bit complex; Poirot and Hastings meet a couple at a party who have just recently moved into a nice apartment sublet to them at an unusually low price. So low, in fact, that Poirot becomes suspicious and decides to sublet the flat above theirs in order to investigate. Suffice it to say that the lady who sublet the flat to the couple has reasons for wanting to be shed of it quickly and quietly. Miss Lemon has a nice scene in which she pretends to be a writer for a woman's magazine in order to interview a suspect. (Poirot has a nice line when he tells her afterward, "I think the newest recruit of the Ladies' Review has made a scoop.") Overall the episode is entertaining, although it does leave rather an unpleasant American taste in one's mouth.
The plot is a bit complex; Poirot and Hastings meet a couple at a party who have just recently moved into a nice apartment sublet to them at an unusually low price. So low, in fact, that Poirot becomes suspicious and decides to sublet the flat above theirs in order to investigate. Suffice it to say that the lady who sublet the flat to the couple has reasons for wanting to be shed of it quickly and quietly. Miss Lemon has a nice scene in which she pretends to be a writer for a woman's magazine in order to interview a suspect. (Poirot has a nice line when he tells her afterward, "I think the newest recruit of the Ladies' Review has made a scoop.") Overall the episode is entertaining, although it does leave rather an unpleasant American taste in one's mouth.
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