Bill Bixby shed his image of "My Favorite Martian" to portray an American on holiday in England who naturally stumbles into the typical Ms. Christie mystery of who-did-it.
Even with a great cast, the film suffers from being way too talky. The dialogue is often quite boring and the characters are exactly this way as well. You reach the point where you don't really care who has been committing all these dastardly murders.
Each character appears to be quite stilted. The bodies tend to pile up quite rapidly and yet there is little to no action.
The guessing game intensifies during the last 10-15 minutes but by then, you just couldn't care less.
Olivia De Havilland brings us another seemingly Melanie Hamilton like performance, but much older of course. However, she can be as devious as she was in "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte," (1964)
Leslie Ann Down is interesting as the woman that everyone wants to suspect.
Even with a great cast, the film suffers from being way too talky. The dialogue is often quite boring and the characters are exactly this way as well. You reach the point where you don't really care who has been committing all these dastardly murders.
Each character appears to be quite stilted. The bodies tend to pile up quite rapidly and yet there is little to no action.
The guessing game intensifies during the last 10-15 minutes but by then, you just couldn't care less.
Olivia De Havilland brings us another seemingly Melanie Hamilton like performance, but much older of course. However, she can be as devious as she was in "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte," (1964)
Leslie Ann Down is interesting as the woman that everyone wants to suspect.