Poirot dines out in an Argentinian restaurant where Hastings has made an huge investment in. Poirot promptly collapses and is told to visit a health farm in a small island off the Devon coast to lose weight.
Once he arrives and gets small portions of healthy food, Poirot gets that foreboding feeling that something bad will happen. Pretty soon, young flirty heiress Arlena Stuart (Louise Delamere) is found strangled on a secluded beach.
Suspects include Arlena's stepson Lionel (Russell Tovey) who resented her playfulness, Christine Redfern (Tamzin Malleson) wife of a financial journalist who is clearly having a dalliance with Arlena. However there are other strange people about in the small island which has caves with a history of smuggling.
I found this straightforward adaptation a lot better than the 1982 Peter Ustinov feature film despite its all star cast. This version still has the humour and interaction between Japp, Hastings and Poirot. Miss Lemon gets some investigative work done and the feature length running time does not feel overly padded.
Once he arrives and gets small portions of healthy food, Poirot gets that foreboding feeling that something bad will happen. Pretty soon, young flirty heiress Arlena Stuart (Louise Delamere) is found strangled on a secluded beach.
Suspects include Arlena's stepson Lionel (Russell Tovey) who resented her playfulness, Christine Redfern (Tamzin Malleson) wife of a financial journalist who is clearly having a dalliance with Arlena. However there are other strange people about in the small island which has caves with a history of smuggling.
I found this straightforward adaptation a lot better than the 1982 Peter Ustinov feature film despite its all star cast. This version still has the humour and interaction between Japp, Hastings and Poirot. Miss Lemon gets some investigative work done and the feature length running time does not feel overly padded.