The Boynton family are surprised to see Cope on board the ship. She, archaeologist Miss Quinton, and lawyer Jefferson Cope (the same) are also on their way to Jerusalem and Qumran. She was born American but has had British nationality for the last ten years due to her marriage, during which she became an MP. Sarah soon falls in love with Raymond Boynton, to Emily's disapproval. In Trieste, the great detective Hercule Poirot runs into an old friend, Dr. She takes the stepchildren and Nadine, her daughter-in-law serving as a nurse, on holiday to Europe. It marks Ustinov's final portrayal of Hercule Poirot.Įmily Boynton, stepmother to the three Boynton children – Lennox, Raymond, and Carol – and mother to Ginevra, blackmails the family lawyer, Jefferson Cope, into destroying her late husband's second will that left them $200,000 each, which would free them from Mrs. It is a follow-up to numerous other theatrical and made-for-television adaptions starring Ustinov, as well as 1974's Murder On The Orient-Express. The film stars Peter Ustinov as Poirot, along with Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, John Gielgud, Piper Laurie, Hayley Mills, Jenny Seagrove and David Soul. 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.
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