Anthony Shaffer adapts Agatha's 1941 Poirot novel deliberately, so that no one is killed for 50 minutes. Instead we're checking out all the staff and guests: Maggie Smith, Colin Blakeley, Diana Rigg, James Mason, Jane Birkin, Nicholas Clay (the weak link), Roddie McDowell, Sylvia Miles, Dennis Quilley and Emily Hone. Poirot is Ustinov.
A most satisfying story but made with nowhere near the imagination and style of Murder on the Orient Express. Also the decision to use only Cole Porter as incidental music a mistake. Liked the umbrellas though.
Mallorca beautifully shot by Christopher Challis, interiors at Wembley.
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