![]() Making faces didn’t help, either.From the opening credits, you know you’re in for an appointment with mediocrity. Smacking doors into your star like some slapstick clown? Why hack screenwriters think they can do better than the mistress of crime is beyond me. It’s the script, not the talent, although the director’s choices didn’t help. He should have gone out on a high note rather than this sour one. Lauren Bacall Lady Westholme), Peter Ustinov (Hercule Poirot) and John Gielgud (Colonel Carbury)This was Peter Ustinov’s last Poirot outing. Read more of Teresa’s Agatha Christie movie reviews at Peschel Press.Īlso, follow Teresa’s discussion of these movies on her podcast. Lethargic, bad music, wasted stars, and plot threads that went nowhere despite the extensive scenery in which they had room to bloom. Quality of movie on its own: 2 poison bottles ![]() ![]() It’s reasonably close if you ignore that ridiculous chase through the souk, cardboard characters, and Agatha’s prose abandoned in favor of some hack screenwriter’s derivative imagination. Teresa reviews “Appointment with Death” (1988) and finds it a disappointing adaptation. ![]()
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