APPOINTMENT WITH DEATH

Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall

Cannon; Directed by Michael Winner

Rated PG; 102 minutes; 1988

It's 1937 and passengers on a cruise ship bound for the Holy Land mingle with each other during a brief stopover at Trieste. Among them is Hercule Poirot, that famous Belgian sleuth of impeccable manners and immeasurable powers of deduction. Poirot is on holiday and en route to Palestine. But, as every Agatha Christie fan knows, there will be no vacation for the mustachioed master of mystery for wherever the dapper detective chooses to go, murder will most certainly follow.