The Other Films of Agatha Christie is a film and television viewer's guide by Scott Palmer on the subject of the many adaptations of the works of Agatha Christie for film and TV. The book was published in hardcover by Cypress Hills Press (probably self-published) in 2017. Scott Palmer is a prolific writer on the topic of film and theatre and has published many books, including technical manuals on stage production as well as guide books on films and TV series.
Palmer had earlier published The Films of Agatha Christie in 1993. In 2016 he published three volumes: Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians on Film and TV, The Films of Miss Marple and The Films of Hercule Poirot. Together with The Other Films, the four books serve as an update to most of the content in the 1993 volume.
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(from Amazon.com)
"This book, which I call The Other Films of Agatha Christie, is a collection of films made for TV and the cinema which do not deal with films including the characters of Miss Jane Marple and Hercule Poirot. These films and characters can be found in books I have previously written, called The Films of Hercule Poirot, and The Films of Miss Marple. I have also written a book entitled Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians on Film and TV, which compares the nearly dozen filmed versions of that novel.
Herewith, we will find films that are NOT included in the above mentioned works. They include well-known film like Witness for the Prosecution, Endless Night, Ordeal By Innocence, and films and TV featuring the characters of Tommy and Tuppence. Also included is a 1982 television series called The Agatha Christie Hour, which dealt with short stories Christie wrote. These are psychological dramas, ghost stories and the like; many of them have no murders. There are more than 50 films included, with complete cast lists, story synopses, and photographs. I have also included several documentary films, as well as some relatively obscure foreign language films. Also the film Agatha starring Vanessa Redgrave as Agatha Christie. I would like to point out that some of the earlier films, and also early/foreign television, went out as live transmissions, so there is comparatively little information available on those productions."