Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- Israel, United Kingdom, United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from her dominating influence. She takes herself, the children, and her daughter-in-law on holiday to Europe and the Holy Land. At a dig, Emily is found dead and Hercule Poirot investigates.
- ship
- based on novel or book
- blackmail
- cruise
- private detective
- murder mystery
- trieste
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Peter Ustinov
Hercule Poirot
Lauren Bacall
Lady Westholme
Carrie Fisher
Nadine Boynton
John Gielgud
Colonel Carbury
- Piper Laurie — Emily Boynton
- Hayley Mills — Miss Quinton
- Jenny Seagrove — Dr. Sarah King
- David Soul — Jefferson Cope
- Nicholas Guest — Lennox Boynton
- Valerie Richards — Carol Boynton
- John Terlesky — Raymond Boynton
- Amber Bezer — Ginevra Boynton
- Douglas Sheldon — Captain Rogers
- Michael Sarne — Healey
- Michael Craig — Lord Peel
- Directed
- Michael Winner
- Written
- Michael Winner, Anthony Shaffer, Peter Buckman
Production
- Rating
- 6.1 / 10 · 192 ratings
- Studio
- GG Studio, Golan-Globus Productions, The Cannon Group
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1978Death on the Nile
Where it starts.
Evil Under the Sun
1982
Thirteen at Dinner
1985
Dead Man's Folly
1986
Murder in Three Acts
1986
Appointment with Death
1988 · You’re here
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
