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They got Albert Finney to play Hercule Poirot. They also got, in alphabetical order as protocol dictates, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Rachel Roberts, Richard Widmark and Michael York, all as murder suspects. And still they got nothing...
...CHARLES G. FINNEY...
...Star, offers an explanation of sorts. His shaggy-dog story is followed by a 20-page catalogue that lists all the male, female and child characters, animals, artifacts and edibles and even the contradictions that appear in the course of the story, an "explanation of the obvious" that as Finney himself insists, must be read to be appreciated...
...Serpent. The result is a send-up that anyone who has ever groaned through an overfootnoted attempt at scholarship will relish. Of a Mexican bartender Finney writes: "His forefathers came to this country a little after Hernando Cortez. His foremothers, Mayans, Toltecs, and Aztecs, were already here." A child devoured by a sea serpent is disposed of in an equally deadpan manner: "For seven years he was a diner; then for a few minutes he was a dinner. Ultimately he was incorporated into the cell structure of the sea serpent, a distinction he did not enjoy." Horses are "anachronisms less...
...Movie Director Sidney Lumet will need all his little gray cells, as Agatha Christie would put it. Next month he starts shooting outside London her 40-year-old thriller Murder on the Orient Express. Albert Finney will play Christie's eggheaded detective Hercule Poirot...