How Many Guessed the Outcome?

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I did, but only because the story was very similiar to some of Christie's other mysteries like Evil Under the Sun and Murder at the Vicarage which I had read before and which had similiar outcomes. I even guessed how they did it. At first I felt a little sorry for Jackie, but then, you know, she could have stopped herself anytime from going through with the plan.

P.S. Does anyone know if 'I, Who Have Nothing'(that song which Jordin Sparks of American Idol keeps singing) was written for this movie? I know it is from the seventies. The lyrics fit Jacqueline's character perfectly, that is why I asked.

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I simply guessed and pretty much from the beginning. I only had a few of the clues by the end, but what sealed it for me was the fact that both of the murderers were IMMEDIATELY discounted as suspects. Anyone who's read any murder mystery knows never to count ANYONE out.

The part with the bullets was just ridiculous. Why would he go to the trouble of replacing a bullet in the chamber just to throw it overboard hoping it will never be found (and if it IS found, everything else bundled with it was evidence to damn him anyway)? Wouldn't it have made more sense to replace the bullet and LEAVE the gun there to be found?

Also the nail polish. I saw Poirot examining them, but of course he doesn't tell the viewer what he's seeing or why it is suspicious (or that it is even suspicious). So it's virtually impossible to put all the clues together beforehand. So I knew who did it, but just couldn't put everything together (if you think Poirot's "evidence" wouldn't hold up, I didn't even have a fraction of the "evidence.")

I´d read the book years before and don´t remember whether I guessed it or not and if I did, then when. Looking at it now though it appears that from the moment it was clear that some red colored liquid from that nail polish bottle was involved, serious attention to the dude´s gunshot wound would be drawn as there was no other apparent reason for anyone to have tampered with it except to produce fake blood. And it would also have been obvious that Farrow had to be playing along. At any rate, it doesn´t look like the most impenetrable mystery ever conceived.



"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

I was kind of thinking it would be Col. Race.

Well, I can safely say no. I was only 9 years old when it came out and I saw it in theaters.

It was my first adult movie and it turned me into a lifelong Agatha Christie fan too.

This movie was the first one I ever bought on VHS and DVD. As a kid, I recorded the audio the first time it was on TV. I used to listen to it over and over and over again.

I had it memorized before it ever could be purchased! :)

One should NEVER read about one of these films in advance, and anyone who would tell someone the solution before they had a chance to see it deserves space one of the circles of Hell. You only have ONE chance to enjoy one of these storiesd "cold", going in knowing NOTHING. Don't blow it for yourself, or let anyone else do it for you.

I've seen it today for the first time and (almost) figured it out about half way through. Of course I've seen Evil under the Sun yesterday so I guess that helped a bit; in fact it made it rather easy.

The only part I didn't get was that Simon had actually shot himself. My theory was that he could move for some reason, even when shot, because that gun could not make a serious damage from a distance, only from really close.

Remember when the doctor said that the bullet did not make it out of the leg and it must have been somewhere inside? Well, that for me seemed like a major clue that there was something fishy about his wound. Maybe, he got the bullet out himself, maybe she knew where to shoot him so that the wound would not be severe, something like that.

Well, that part I got wrong but other than that, everything was relatively easy, especially figuring out that Simon and Jackie had a plan all along.