![]() Of course Poirot through careful questioning and a gathering of the suspects eventually finds out who the real murderer is. On an excursion out in the desert Laurie turns up dead and the mystery is afoot. Also along on the trip is David Soul, Laurie's family attorney and Jenny Seagrove as a young doctor. She's traveling with a companion played by Hailey Mills. Another woman along on the trip who's come along way is a character based on Lady Nancy Astor, an American born woman who married a title and now has a seat in Parliament played by Lauren Bacall. Laurie's come a long way since she was a matron in a women's prison. ![]() The power of the purse keeps the whole family under her thumb. ![]() All live with her and the terms of her late husband's will give her complete control of the family fortune. She has one grown daughter and three stepchildren one of whom is married. This particular mystery finds Hercule Poirot on holiday and in the company both on ship and later in British mandated Palestine in the mid Thirties of an American family headed by a tyrannical stepmother played by Piper Laurie. ![]() I wouldn't be surprised if in fact the BBC Poirot series starring David Suchet which we in America saw for many years may have killed the more expensive budgeted big screen Poirot that Ustinov did so well. I'm sure Peter Ustinov probably could have done others. Appointment with Death was the last theatrical release of that series of Hercule Poirot mysteries. ![]()
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