Sadly Over-hyped

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Does anybody know the title of the chanson in the café-scene with R. Welsh at the table, lyrics are going like "chevalier, merci, pour l'amour ..." Thanks, friends, I love this movie and have seen it about 20 times by know. Its one of my absolutely favorites.

For me the three best mysteries I've seen where you had to keep guessing to the end, are 'Usual Suspects', 'Identity' [2003. You really have no idea until the end] and 'Last of Sheila' which is lighter than the others but still a great mystery and fun. It was good to have a cast that were all about as famous as each other so, as with TV esp. where there is one 'guest star' and you know he must be the one who 'did it', here you don't know and in fact are not sure what 'it' was for sometime.I and video stores had been looking for it for years but always heard '...six more months...' before available.

Complex or simple depending on your skill as a puzzle solver this is a top grade thriller either way.Featuring a dynamite cast, beautiful settings and blessed with something that is rarer than you would think, a clever script, this grabs you right from the first shot and teases you along until the exciting conclusion. The entire group of actors each get a spotlight moment or two but a few do stand out. Dyan Cannon is brassy, frisky and funny. The wonderful Joan Hackett is touching as the troubled Lee and James Mason is cool and classy as a rather disreputable character. Actually with the exception of Joan Hackett's Lee all the characters are rather loathsome people with a few redeeming qualities, some very few.Herbert Ross keeps the whole film moving at a good pace but what really puts this over is the skill of the actors and the strong script by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim. Recommended.

This is one of those odd 70's films that (when compared to some suspense today) are falsely interpreted as brilliant. It came out at the same time "Murder on the Orient Express", "Death on the Nile", "Sleuth" and other Agatha Christie like interpretations which came to be popular.That being said it is watchable, Richard Benjamin and Joan Hackett as an unhappily married Beverly Hills couple. Dyan Cannon as a shrill, narcissistic, hedonist actress (no stretch there). Raquel Welch as attractive lesbian, and a few other odd assorted characters including James Mason (always good, no matter how bad the material).James Coburn is a sadistic mogul/producer who invites his assorted Hollywood colleagues on a yacht trip to solve what recently the unsolved homicide of his wife Sheila. Each player has a secret, and Coburn knows them all. There are the usual shell games, ruses and psycho-drama. Anyone who reads and enjoys true mysteries may get bored after the first 45 minutes.Overall though, Coburn and Mason are fun to watch, and there are a few twists here so it may be worth tuning in as you are trying to fall asleep. True mystery/suspense fans will find some comedy here. 7/10.