Love this movie!

Lord Brabourne and Richard Goodwin introduced M. Hercule Poirot to the 1980's with style!

Directed by Guy Hamilton (Goldfinger, Live and Let Die, Battle of Britain, and The Mirror Crack'd).

Peter Ustinov once again leads a distinguished cast consisting of Jane Birkin, Colin Blakely, Nicholas Clay, James Mason, Roddy McDowall, Sylvia Miles, Dennis Quilley, Diana Rigg, and Maggie Smith.

The music is a rendition of the Greatest of Cole Porter.

The cast is doing what they do best- Nicholas Clay's ass is perfectly on display throughout most of the movie, Diana Rigg is a total bitch, Roddy McDowall is definitely in the closet, James Mason is a class act, and Maggie Smith's sarcasm is next level.

The mystery is top notch.

Between Evil Under the Sun, The Mirror Crack'd, Appointment with Death, Death on the Nile, and Murder on the Orient Express, this is the most enjoyable and watchable movie of the bunch.

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February 25, 2022 8:48 PM

I would put this a distant third under Death on Nile which is a very distant second under Murder on the Orient Express.

The performances are uniformly dreadful with the exception of Roddy and James and Nicholas Clay is so obviously a bounder he might as well be wearing a neon sign.

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January 24, 2022 12:41 AM

I am now intrigued by Nicholas Clays ass

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January 24, 2022 12:43 AM

Nicholas Clay did indeed have a marvelous ass. The rest of him was pretty nice, too. I disagree with R1 about the quality of the performances. Roddy's Noel Coward impression was a hoot, and Diana Rigg and Maggie Smith could never put a foot wrong in my book. What makes this film for me is the humor. No one takes their role too seriously -finding opportunities to milk a few laughs from the whodunnit formula. The solution to the crime may be pretty obvious, but it is nonetheless a delightful way to spend an evening.

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January 24, 2022 12:57 AM

I wish they would have got Carol Channing for James Mason's bitchy and loud wife. That would have been a hoot, too!

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January 24, 2022 1:40 AM

I was a young gayling who discovered the beauty of Nicholas Clay's amazing ass in Lady Chatterly's Lover. Stocky, shorter men have been my favorite body type because of him.

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January 24, 2022 1:49 AM

NC’s glorious ass in the black swimsuit had its own golden thread a decade ago.

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January 24, 2022 2:30 AM

Peter Ustinov in his old fashiond trunks fake swimming is a very funny visual.

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January 24, 2022 9:05 AM

The costumes by Anthony Powell for this and Death on The Nile are stunning. I also love the use of Cole Porter songs in EUTS.

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January 24, 2022 9:09 AM

Yeah, it's amazing how revealing the black swim trunks are on Nicholas Clay. His ass is nearly popping out of them.

Not something you usually see in a family mystery movie:

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January 24, 2022 9:53 AM

Not the most memorable case or movie to me and far away from the quality of “Death on the Nile” and “Murder on the Orient Express”.

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January 24, 2022 10:26 AM

Who doesn't love Nicholas Clay's ass?????????

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February 25, 2022 8:48 PM