Winner's an odd choice to direct this lavish mystery headed by a big cast, but he does a fine job it's well-directed and acted mystery. One of Dame Agatha Christie's best Poirot books comes to life in an adaptation directed by Michael Winner, and no, there's no vigilantes, rapes and grisly murders in sight - only two murders, one of them being done with digitalis injection and the other by gunshot. Hercule Poirot is soon intrigued and appalled to discover that death never takes a holiday - nor can his famed "little grey cells". Things come to boiling point in British-controlled Palestine and fellow traveller. She even makes a luxury family trip to Europe and the Middle East hellish. Reviewed by coltras35 9 / 10 Poirot's little grey cells are at work again!ġ937: manipulative and malicious, recently widowed Emily Boynton ruthlessly rules her step-children's lives.
At a dig, everybody wonders about the camp, and Emily is found dead, poisoned. The children learn about the second will, and Emily succeeds in rubbing the rest the wrong way, causing much hatred towards her. Lady Westholme (Lauren Bacall), her secretary, and Cope are following them too. Sarah King (Jenny Seagrove), who falls in love with Raymond Boynton (John Terleskey) to Emily's disapproval. In Jerusalem, Hercule Poirot (Sir Peter Ustinov) meets up with a woman friend, Dr.
She takes herself and the children on vacation to Europe and the Holy Land. Emily Boynton (Piper Laurie), stepmother to the three Boynton children, and mother to Ginevra (Amber Bezer), blackmails the family lawyer, Jefferson Cope (David Soul), into destroying the second will of her late husband, which would have freed the childern from her dominating influence.
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