![]() ![]() 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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