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The Girl in the Train: Directed by Brian Farnham. With Osmund Bullock, Sarah Berger, Ernest Clark, James Grout. George Rowland hides a young girl on a train. She's escaping from her "uncle", an hulking brute who is very possibly a foreign spy.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Brian Farnham
- 1982-09-21
- Overview
- Synopsis
- Comparison with Original Novel
- Cast
- Research notes
The Girl in the Train is the third episode of The Agatha Christie Hour and is based on the Agatha Christie short story of the same name.
George Rowland comes to work late (again) and his Uncle William fires him from the family investment firm. George decides to leave home. In the train guide he spots a place named "Rowland's Castle" and on a whim decides to go there since it is named after him. As he settles in his train compartment, a beautiful young girl dashes into his compartmen...
Except for a few minor changes, the adaptation is quite faithful to the original story.
•The action all the way to Portsmouth follows the original plot closely.
•At Portsmouth, George follows the man with the beard (his name Mardenberg is not used in the show) out onto the streets at night. But here, it is not a non-event. Some things do happen:
•At a fish and chips stand, George sees someone slip a piece of paper into the bearded man's coat pocket.
•Next, the bearded man goes to the harbourfront where he signals with a torch to someone offshore (who is probably on a ship of some sort). There are answering signals.
•The segment where George sets an alarm, follows the bearded man to the bathroom and watches him hiding the paper is accurately depicted. George then takes the paper and slips it into his pocket.
•Osmund Bullock as George Rowland
•Sarah Berger as Elizabeth
•Ernest Clark as Rogers
•James Grout as William Rowland
•Ron Pember as Jarrold
•Roy Kinnear as Cabbie
•Flowers - there is a running gag in the show which is not present in the original story. After losing his job, a flower seller gives him some white heather. George believes this will bring him good luck. At Portsmouth, a cab driver tells him it's erica vagans and laughs. George is puzzled. Later, Prince Karl and Sturm manage to track George down b...
A young man is cut off from the family fortune and, with little better to do, jumps on a train. But as with many an Agatha Christie story, a train is never merely about the destination, the real interest lies in the passengers. The girl he meets there will change his life forever. The story appeared in the UK collection The Listerdale Mystery ...
The Girl in the Train is a short story written by Agatha Christie which was first published in the Grand Magazine in February 1924. In the U.K. the story was subsequently collected and published as part of the anthology The Listerdale Mystery which came out in 1934. In the U.S. the story was not published in any collection until 1971 when it came out as part of The Golden Ball and Other ...
George Rowland hides a young girl on a train. She's escaping from her "uncle", an hulking brute who is very possibly a foreign spy. The girl gives to George an odd parcel and she disappears. Sacked from the family firm,George is on his way to visit Rowlands Castle by train when a blonde named Elizabeth asks him to hide her from a sinister ...
Tue, Nov 2, 1982. Dermot is falling in love for his best friend's wife but his uncle, a famous psychiatrist, tells to him that the highly nervous young woman is affected from homicidal mania. When the doctor is mysteriously killed, Dermot and the woman are the most likely suspects. 6.8/10 (139)
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The Girl in the Train: After losing his job, a young investment broker seeks some adventure in his life. He finds it on a train to Portsmouth when a beautiful blonde darts into his compartment and entangles him in international intrigue.
