![]() ![]() ![]() “You’re not going to barbecue me to keep yourself in sailor suits,” she seethes. Roddy McDowall’s Rex Brewster, a swishy journalist who has made the unforgivable error of stating her birth date in Arlena's biography, pleads with her for a release to publish it. ![]() She casts a sideways glance at Poirot and wonders, “Who is that absurd little man?” (Obviously a line from the novel, as Ustinov’s form is definitely not svelte.) She advises her long suffering step daughter, Linda, to “Scram,” in a voice like finger nails against a chalk board and later on directs her to go play with the jelly fish. Arlena is especially good at dismissing those who annoy her, even by their mere presence. All the characters who arrive at the ritzy resort setting are merely a backdrop for her histrionics. ![]()
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