The screenplay was written by Winner as well as Peter Buckman and Anthony Shaffer. Made by Golan- Globus Productions, the film is an adaptation of the 1938 Agatha Christie novel Appointment with Death featuring the detective Hercule Poirot. Appointment with Death is a 1988 American mystery film and sequel produced and directed by Michael Winner. The flick will appeal to suspense lovers and Agatha Christie-Poirot novels buffs.

Subsequently Michael Winner career was failed, alternating some hit as ¨The sentinel¨ and various flops as ¨ Firepower, The big sleep, The wicked lady, Appointed with death, A chorus of disapproval, and Bullseye ¨. After directing the successful ¨Death wish¨ he made worst sequels in which Bronson-Paul Kersey goes on to torture robbers, all of them inferior and the violence could be deemed excessive, are the following : ¨Death wish II¨ with Jill Ireland and Vincent Gardenia, ¨Death wish III¨ with Ed Lauter and Deborah Raffin. This film is professionally directed by Michael Winner though contains some flaws and poor edition. Ustinov starred various Hercules Poirot films as : ¨Evil under the sun¨(Guy Hamilton), ¨Death on the Nile¨(John Guillermin) and for TV with low budget as : ¨Murder in three acts¨,¨Dead man's folly¨ and ¨Thirteen at dinner ¨ but the best considered is Death on the Nile. Actors 's interpretation are first-rate, Peter Ustinov acting is similar to Albert Finney ( Murder on the Orient Express). Sensitive and atmospheric musical score by Pino Donaggio. Colorful and sunny cinematography by excellent cameraman David Gurfinkel. The movie gets a lush costume design ( John Bloomfield ) and magnificent production design.

In the picture there are mystery, emotion, love story, suspense and wonderful outdoors from Jerusalen, Italy and the rout on the cruise ship. The film is a detective story in which you are the detective. After the clues have been shown we will get a chance to give the answer with Poirot finding out about the culprit at a twisted finale with outstanding surprises but are taken the murders from different viewpoints of everyone which it makes a little bit boring, pedestrian, endless and overlong. Hercules Poirot is helped by a British Colonel (John Gielgud). Who is the killer?, can he find the guilty?.

He investigates the travelers and as numerous suspects, all support cast ( Carrie Fisher, Nicholas Guest, David Soul, Hayley Mills, John Terlesky, Lauren Bacall and Jenny Seagrove married to Michael Winner). This whodunit deals with Hercules Poirot (Peter Ustinov) as the Belgian sleuth man in he case of killing a rich, unpopular heiress in an archaeological dig during a luxurious vacations. Suspense and intrigue with Poirot on holidays in Jerusalen.

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