Appointment with Death (1988) on Netflix
Emily Boynton blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a will that would free her stepchildren from her control. She takes them on a cruise to the Holy Land, with Hercule Poirot aboard.
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Plot summary
Recently widowed Emily Boynton holds her late husband's fortune and rules his adult children, Lennox, Raymond and Carol, along with Ginevra, her own daughter. She makes the family lawyer, Jefferson Cope, destroy a later will that would have divided the estate among the children, keeping them dependent on her. Emily takes the family on a cruise to the Holy Land, and Cope and Nadine, Lennox's wife, travel with them. Hercule Poirot, aboard the same ship, meets his friend Dr. Sarah King, who becomes close to Raymond. Lady Westholme, a British member of parliament touring Palestine, and her secretary, Miss Quinton, join the same group. At the dig by the Dead Sea, Emily is found dead, and Poirot takes up the case.
Cast
- Valerie Richardsas Carol Boynton
- Amber Bezeras Ginevra Boynton
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Appointment with Death (1988)
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- Parts of Appointment with Death were shot at the historic American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem, founded in 1902 by Plato von Ustinov, the grandfather of its star Peter Ustinov.
- Lauren Bacall, who was Jewish, agreed to be cast in Appointment with Death because it gave her the opportunity to visit Israel for the first time.
- Appointment with Death marks Peter Ustinov's final portrayal of Hercule Poirot, following his earlier films and television productions as the detective, including 1974's Murder on the Orient Express.
- The adaptation moved the story's setting from Petra, Jordan to Jerusalem and Qumran near the Dead Sea, because producers Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan's company was based in Israel.
