Agatha Christie's Poirot: Triangle at Rhodes

This is one of the shorter ones, really more like an episode than a movie. I liked it, the characters were ok, I liked Mr Gold's and Miss Lyle's actors, and I loved Poirot in here.

It was a nice episode. It wasn’t difficult to understand, but it was very nicely done and Poirot was his true sweet half/irascible half/conceited self :-D
He’s vacationing in Rhodes and he meets Miss Lyle (Frances Low) and together they witness two couples meeting and it’s easy to predict that trouble will follow. Miss Lyle believes that rich and beautiful Valentine Chantry (Annie Lambert) has charmed married man Douglas Gold (Peter Settelen) much to his wife’s distress (Marjorie Gold=Angela Down), so when Valentine dies after drinking from her husband’s glass, Gold is arrested, accused of wanting to kill him but ending killing the wife instead. Poirot was supposed to be away on a boat by then, but he had been detained by the Italian police who suspected him of being a spy, so Miss Lyle is able to reach him and ask his help. He had not been deceived and had seen clearly that Gold loved his wife and had advised her earlier on to leave the island at once, but she hadn’t. He understands that the only affair going on was the one between Marjorie and Chantry himself, so together they had bought a poison on the street and put it in his glass, that he had then passed on to his wife and then put the poison's little bottle in Gold’s pocket. They are about to escape but Poirot goes after them, helped by a major, some kind of spy, and the Italian police who shoots Chantry before he can throw dynamite at Poirot’s boat; I hadn't liked that Italian investigator before, when he had talked to Poirot trying to imitate Mussolini, but it was funny at the end when he called Poirot and the others “you crazy English” :lol:

I also liked this bit, when Miss Lyle tells Poirot that Valentine is dead and he says: "I feared such an outcome", and in hearing that she goes "then why didn’t you do something?", which is something people would always say in cases like this, as if it was easy to do something, and Poirot replies : "do what? what is there to do before the event? tell the police that someone has murder in their heart? no"

He was right of course, he had tried to get the Golds out of the island, but it hadn't worked. What else could he do? Follow them around trying to prevent it? They would have found another way.