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Studiocanal UK has kindly sent us a 4K restoration of The Agatha Christie Collection.

Before there were popular modern murder mystery films such as Rian Johnson’s Knives Out franchise… Agatha Christie’s stories from the early-20th century have been adapted into films and TV series for decades and these stories continue to inspire the mystery genre, still to this very day.

The Agatha Christie Collection is now seen in a beautiful 4K restoration for these four movies in 4KUHD & Blu-Ray: Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Death on the Nile (1978), The Mirror Crack’d (1980), and Evil Under The Sun (1982).

What’s included in the extras?

The 4KUHD and Blu-Ray box set also includes a 64-page booklet and 4 posters of brand new artwork, although we did not recieve those to look through, only the discs of the films and the behind the scenes extra which come with each respectively.

Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

• NEW Behind the Velvet Curtains: Jacqueline Bisset revisits The Orient Express
• Interview with Richard Goodwin
• Audio Interview with Michael York –
• Audio commentary with Howard S. Berger, Steve
• Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson
• Agatha Christie: A Portrait
• Making ‘Murder on the Orient Express’
• Making ‘Murder on the Orient Express’: The Passengers
• Making ‘Murder on the Orient Express’: The End of the Line
• Behind the Scenes Stills Gallery
• Original trailer

Death on the Nile (1978)

• NEW Sparkling Homicide: A Video Essay by David Cairns
• Audio commentary with Howard S. Berger, Steve Mitchell, and Nathaniel Thompson – Making Of
• Interview with Angela Lansbury
• Interview with costume designer Anthony Powell
• Interview with Producer Richard Goodwin
• Interview with Peter Ustinov
• Interview with Jane Birkin
• Behind the Scenes stills gallery
• Costume Designs Gallery
• Original Trailer

The Mirror Crack’d (1980)

• NEW Reflections on Miss Marple: featuring Jean Kwok, Rian Johnson, Matthew Sweet and Mark Aldridge
• Audio Commentary by Film Historians Howard S. Berger, Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson
• Interview with screenwriter Barry Sandler
• Interview with Angela Lansbury –
• Interview with Producer Richard Goodwin
• Behind the Scenes Stills Gallery
• Storyboards Gallery

Specifically on the extras for The Mirror Crack’d, there’s even ‘Reflections’ from those who have been inspired by Miss Marple’s character including Rian Johnson as mentioned previously in the article.

Evil Under the Sun (1982)

• NEW Back to the Island: Emily Hone remembers Evil Under the Sun
• NEW Excessive Creatures: A Video Essay by David Cairns
• Making Of featurette
• Audio commentary with Howard S. Berger, Steve Mitchell, and Nathaniel Thompson
• Interview with costume designer Anthony Powell
• Interview with screenwriter Barry Sandler
• Interview with producer Richard Godwin
• Behind the Scenes stills gallery
• Costume Designs gallery
• Original Trailer
• The Royal Film Performance 1982: In the Gracious Presence of H. M. the Queen & H. R. H. the Duke of Edinburgh – At the Odeon Leicester Square
• Agatha Christie’s “Evil Under the Sun” 1982 featurette

These four incredible thriller films are star-studded with Albert Finney, Angela Lansbury, Ingrid Bergman,
John Gielgud, Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Maggie Smith, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, David Niven, James Mason,
Diana Rigg, Rock Hudson, Kim Novak, Elizabeth Taylor, Lauren Bacall, Sean Connery and Vanessa Redgrave.

The stories include characters which became widely recognized household names such as Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.

Angela Lansbury starred in Death on the Nile, as well as giving an incredible performance as Miss Marple alongside Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and Tony Curtis in The Mirror Crack’d; directed by Guy Hamilton. Lansbury left a lasting impression as the actress would later star as a character in a TV series heavily influenced by Christie’s work called Murder, She Wrote.

Poirot played well by Albert Finney in this instance of Murder on the Orient Express; directed by Sidney Lumet, and Peter Ustinov portrayed the character in the Death on the Nile; directed by John Guillermin and Evil Under the Sun; directed by Guy Hamilton.

There’s been many other actors to portray Poirot, although, David Suchet’s performance in the late 80s TV series was my most favourite Poirot of them all!

The Agatha Christie Collection released on November 24, 2025.