Peter Ustinov, James Mason, Sylvia Miles, Roddy McDowall, Maggie Smith, Jane Birkin, Nicholas Clay, Diana Rigg, Denis Quilley, Colin Blakely, Emily Hone, Paul Antrim, Cyril Conway, John Alderson, Richard Vernon
An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangling of a notorious stage star.
Guy Hamilton does wonders here with this fairly far-fetched Agatha Christie story about the murder of an actress - a rather unlikeable creation of Diana Rigg - on an idyllic if somewhat ramshackle island paradise run by Maggie Smith. Peter Ustinov is on hand, luckily, to exercise his little grey cells and establish who did what to whom, and why! James Mason, Sylvia Miles and Roddy McDowall head th...