The fourth in EMI's Agatha Christie adaptations is the least starry - you've got Peter Ustinov back as Poirot, plus Maggie Smith, Diana Rigg, Roddy McDowall and James Mason, but the rest are fairly B team: Jane Birkin, Nicholas Clay (remember when he was going to be a star?), Colin Blakely, Sylvia Miles. Everyone is good, don't get me wrong, I was just hoping for more names.
I also wasn't wild about the fact the film was set in a sort of la-la land, a made up country. They just should have set it in Spain, where it was shot.
The mystery is good and the Majorca locations are pleasing. It doesn't have the reputation of Murder on the Orient Express or Death on the Nile but it holds up well.
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