![]() He is so expansive, so beaming, sosuperior, in the opening scenes that he remains spiritually present throughoutthe film, even when he's not on screen.Īll of the rest of the cast are suspects. He has a bit of business involving a dip in the sea thatis so perfectly timed and acted it tells us everything we ever wanted to knowabout Poirot's appetite for exercise. As Poirot, Peter Ustinov creates a wonderful mixture of the mentally polished andphysically maladroit. ![]() It's the cast that makes EVILmore fun than the previous manifestations of this identical plot. It continues with the discoveryof another corpse, with the liberal distribution of gigantic clues and withPoirot's lip-smacking summary of the evidence. Itcontinues in obligatory fashion with the gathering of a large number ofcolorful and eccentric suspects in an out-of-the-way spot, which just happensto also be the destination of Hercule Poirot. ![]() ![]() It begins in the usual way, with a corpse. ![]()
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