Classic Movies Live – Season 4, Episode 36: A Haunting In Venice
September 27, 2023This week on Classic Movies Live!, our hosts talk about the one, the only, the legend Kenny B!
For his third Inspector Poirot film, Kenneth Branagh adapts the lesser-known Agatha Christie mystery Hallowe’en Party. Moving the action to Venice instead of rural England, A Haunting In Venice finds a retired Poirot reluctantly brought back to investigate a several-years-old murder alongside mystery writer Ariadne Oliver (Tina Fey) and medium Joyce Reynolds (Michelle Yeoh). But when another murder happens, Poirot must reckon with the ghosts not only of the deceased, but of his own past, as he slowly realizes that there’s more to the people in the house with him than he originally thought…
This episode was produced during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labour of the writers and actors currently on strike, the films being discussed in this show wouldn’t exist. To learn more about the ongoing strikes, go to https://www.sagaftrastrike.org/ and https://www.wgacontract2023.org/strike-hub