The critical reception of the other three Death on the Nile (1978), The Mirror Crack’d (1980), and Evil Under the Sun (1982) fell somewhere in between. Similarly, Appointment with Death is clearly awful even die-hard Christie adaptation junkies like me will admit that. Although it’s not as innovative and analyzed as other movies of its era, no one would deny that it’s a very good film. It was nominated for seven Oscars, winning one for supporting actress Ingrid Bergman (her third). (To be fair, by 1988’s Appointment with Death, the definition of “all-star” had been stretched a bit.) The first of these, Sidney Lumet’s Murder on the Orient Express, is a bona fide classic. Stylish, witty whodunit with a touch of camp.īetween 19, audiences were treated to five all-star adaptations of classic Agatha Christie mysteries. Starring Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, Diana Rigg, Roddy McDowall, James Mason, Sylvia Miles, Nicholas Clay, Jane Birkin, Dennis Quilley, Colin Blakely, and Emily Hone
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