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Rating:  - Great film. A must see!
This is a great film! Glamorous setting. Great cast. Interesting storyline. A must see! One of my favorites.
Rating:  - Agatha Christie Mystery
Wonderful cast, Maggie Smith, Diana Riggs, James Mason, Roddy McDowell, Peter Ustinov, Vera Miles and Jane Birkin (yes, the Birkin bag is named after her).
Cole Porter music and absolutely beautiful costumes. The cast delivers a witty and ironic mystery and as only Dame Agatha can do, she makes murder mysteries fun to watch.
Great movie night at home alone, with Ben & Jerry's or a pizza. Or in keeping with the movie, cocktails (have a sidecar or between the sheets) and snacks.
Rating: - Great direction
The direction (by Guy Hamilton, who directed some of the early James Bond films) is superb! The framing, the pacing, the look of the movie is carefully, meticulously designed by an organized, logical, and colorful mind - which makes it a pleasure to view. Unlike most of today's movies, which shake the camera (and your insides) unmercifully, assault you with filthy language, and show people acting like subhuman morons rolling in a sewer.
If you want class, intelligence, beauty, and wit - if you want to be entertained and made to feel terrific for about two hours, give or take - then this is the flick to pick up.
Rating: - Evil is Good!
If you like over-the-top costumes, high style and camp, you'll love this movie. The photography is gorgeous, everyone is immaculately presented, and the music is out of this world. A real joy for the senses.
Rating: - How can you go wrong with Louis Vuitton steamer trunks!
This is by far my favorite of the Agatha Christie movie adaptations. Amazing location, great plot, unbelievable costumes, a score by Cole Porter, a uber-talented cast in some of their very best perfomances and an parade of Louis Vuitton luggage following Diana Rigg down a bumpy, exotic road. The sparing between Rigg and Smith is some of the best comedic dialogue ever written, and the transformation at the end of the movie is worth the price of the DVD.
I have owned this movie as a VHS and DVD. The miraculous restoration of the DVD puts the VHS to shame. It is breath-taking.
I suppose that to the Christie purest there have been a great deal of liberties taken with this production. But to the movie goer that wants great entertainment, this is the best of the Christie lot. (I won't go into my thoughts about the wretched "Mirror Cracked".) My three children consider this one of their favorite childhood movies, so much so that I had to buy them their own copies as the went off to college!
You really can't go wrong with this one!
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