Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Age rating
- U
- Language
- English
- Country
- Mexico, United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.
- based on novel or book
- detective
- murder
- murder mystery
- whodunnit
The bill
Peter Ustinov
Hercule Poirot
Tony Curtis
Charles Cartwright
Emma Samms
Egg
Jonathan Cecil
Capt. Arthur Hastings
- Fernando Allende — Ricardo Montoya
- Pedro Armendáriz Jr. — Col. Mateo
- Lisa Eichhorn — Cynthia Dayton
- Dana Elcar — Dr. Strange
- Frances Lee McCain — Miss Milray
- Marian Mercer — Daisy Eastman
- Diana Muldaur — Angela Stafford
- Nicholas Pryor — Freddie Dayton
- Concetta Tomei — Janet Crisp
- Jacqueline Evans — Mrs. Babbington
- Ángeles González — Housekeeper
- Directed
- Gary Nelson
- Written
- Scott Swanton
Production
- Rating
- 5.9 / 10 · 77 ratings
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Television
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 · You’re here
Appointment with Death
1988
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.
