Appointment with Death (1988)

Cast

Carrie Fisher
as Nadine Boynton
Lauren Bacall
as Lady Westholme
Hayley Mills
as Miss Quinton
Piper Laurie
as Emily Boynton

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Genres & Description

Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

6.2 / 10

Emily Boynton, step-mother to the three Boynton children and mother to Ginevra, blackmails the family lawyer, Jefferson Cope, into destroying a second will of her late husband which would have freed the childern from her dominating influence. She takes herself and the children on holiday to Europe and the Holy Land. In Jerusalem, Hercule Poirot meets up with a woman friend, Dr. King who falls in love with Raymond Boynton to Emily's disapproval. Lady Westholme, her secretary and Cope are following them too. The children discover about the second will and Emily succeeds in rubbing the rest up the wrong way causing much hatred towards her. At a dig, everybody wonders about the camp and Emily is found dead... poisoned. Poirot investigates...

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007 Beck

This version of Appointment With Death is much better than the 2008 version. - @Monday, November 6, 2017 3:49 PM

Sherry Miyano

Isnt't there this anecdote about one of Christie's heirs to have said to Ustinov 'But Hercule Poirot is not at all like this!' to which Ustinov simply replied 'Now he is'. I love Peter Ustinov very much. And even though I'm usually very keen on counting myself among the kind of people remarking 'but this was not within the book!!', I still find myself preferring his version of the great Belgium detective to Suchet's. Suchet has the right looks, is (mostly) seen in the correct setting and has the right mannerisms - but, in my opinion, he still lacks the original Poirot's intensity, that is, his atmosphere. Setting up crimes in pretentious places is not what grants a figure undying fame - it is the character being a genuinely original and ingenious excentric. - @Friday, March 7, 2014 3:35 PM

criticam cogitandi

Suche is so much different, and better... - @Wednesday, December 26, 2012 11:08 AM