Another well executed episode that pays fitting homage to an Agatha Christie novel.David Suchet is the definitive Hercule Poirot once again as he solves this cold case that saw the hanging of an innocent women for killing her husband. Now the daughter seeks solace for both her parents leaving her all those years ago. The great Belgian detective seeks to uncover the truth and as usual discovers all kinds of motives and golden nuggets of information. One of the finer episodes in this great series8/10

What is to say? One of the best of Christies' novels adapted as close to the original story as possible, if you neglect the homosexual stuff. Some minor flaws (esp. the age and looks of Julie Fox) have been mentioned elsewhere. But if you don't like this one, I gather you're not able to appreciate any Christie at all. "Five Litte Pigs" is on the very top rung and maybe the most touching Christie of them all. Anyone is allowed to cry out loud even though most are engaged in solving the mystery.David Suchet makes one of his most convincing performances here and as many other states, Rachel Stirling is unbelievably good as Caroline Crale. Any man with a touch of "gentle" in his blood would fight for this woman until his death.. some clue to the denouement might be stated here!

I have after all this time read the reviews..I was the Set Decorator..and I have to say to work on Death on The Nile and 5 Little Pigs was a joy plus a few others... The period is my favourite . One always hopes'that one gets it right...There are'so many Poirot fans . Any slight error of period will be spotted....So I get rather paranoid to please' just that one expert of Agatha Christie... I still have one or two reminders of Death on The Nile, The menus from The Karnak. My original notes at the time...and a few small pieces that I loaned from my collection... Before this came Jeeves and Wooster with the great Eileen Diss as'designer.. Retirement is now upon me.......No more Poirot, No more Jeeves , Longitude etc..etc..I can now watch out for the errors...and stay silent ...

Finally! I've now seen all of the feature length installments of the Poirot movies featuring David Suchet. And wouldn't you know it – the last one I watch just happens to be one of the best of the entire series.Five Little Pigs, which happens to benefit from staying fairly true to Agatha Christie's original work (at least as best as I can remember), is a poignant, gut-wrenching, and beautifully filmed movie. As Christie did in her novel, the mystery is told though a series of five interviews that flashback to that fateful day when a murder was committed. Director Paul Unwin handles this portion quite nicely. I was worried about all the hand-held shaky-cam, but it works well for the iffy memories of events of fourteen years previous. Even though I knew the outcome, I thought the mystery elements were well done. I think someone without knowledge of the plot would really enjoy this part of Five Little Pigs. The acting, other than the abysmal performance of Aimee Mullins as the adult Lucy, is more than acceptable. By now (or by 2003 at least), Suchet has grown in the role of Poirot to the point that I cannot imagine anyone else even attempting to do the character. Two other real highlights for me were the music (it's quite beautiful) and the photography (there are some gorgeous landscape shots throughout the movie). All together, an 8/10 seems about right by me. Had the adult Lucy not been so distractingly poorly played, I could have easily rated Five Little Pigs higher.