I guess there were budget constraints requiring an updated setting for this film. I suppose they had to hire Motel 6 screenwriters as well. Pity. There is wasted talent here, for sure. I never saw this when it first came out, and I'm glad for that. I was on a Poirot jag and came upon these TV movies of the mid-late 80s. The exposition is clumsy, the dialog is forced, and it's delivered as though the actors are cutouts from Clutch Cargo. I was waiting for a Yuban commercial to appear. Oh no, give this series a pass, and don't sully your memory of the Ustinov Poirot from Death on the Nile.
Review of Dead Man's Folly
