3/12/2024 0 Comments Doctor blake mysteriesAldridge remarked that both film and novelisation ‘sank without a trace’ and he describes the film as a ‘bizarre and somewhat illogical – but nevertheless entertaining screenplay’. Reactions to the film were mostly poor and Christie was far from happy with it, not least because she hadn’t realised she had signed away the right to make a novelisation of it. Naturally, the film, and therefore the novelisation, does its own thing regarding the plot, going in a very direction to that of the original story (some things never change…). He also comments on the film, however this is based on the novelisation itself, as there is no footage of the film, and the script is also lost. Mark Aldridge who writes the introduction to the Detective Story Club Classic reprint, compares the changes between the 1924 short story and its later incarnation as ‘The Coming of Mr Quin’ in 1930. It should be noted that when this story was incorporated into the short story collection: The Mysterious Mr Quin (1930), the title was changed to ‘The Coming of Mr Quin’. The Passing of Mr Quinn was a novelisation of the silent film that came out the same year, which was based on an Agatha Christie, ‘The Passing of Mr Quinn’ (1924). Some of you may be muttering, ‘But surely it was Agatha Christie who wrote about the character Mr Quin?’ And you would indeed be correct, but today’s read is a little bit more complicated.
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