More padding consists of extra wringing of hands and shaking of heads over the murder, plus portentous scenes of Poirot criticizing the criminals for the vicious stabbing alongside pointless flashbacks of the crooks staring at each other through the light of a match. After this slowness, Poirot decides to pull the sheet further down. After some straightforward dialogue, the camera just lingers on the men standing in silence. The coroner pulls the sheet back to expose the dressed corpse's head and shoulders for Poirot, Hastings and Japp to look at. Typical of this is the scene at the morgue. Evidently there wasn't a lot of material to shoot so the proceedings have more padding than David Suchet's Poirot costume. The main clues are just a meaningless jumble of train times and destinations, and the dull crime mystery doesn't have much to it anyway.
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