Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?
Acting
Oliver Reed simmers with sleazy menace throughout.
Production
Iranian desert hotel location feels genuinely remote.
Direction
Collinson stages deaths with giallo-adjacent flair.
Director
Peter Collinson
Oliver Reed
Hugh Lombard
Elke Sommer
Vera Clyde
Richard Attenborough
Judge Arthur Cannon
Stéphane Audran
Ilona Morgan
Gert Fröbe
Wilhelm Blore
Herbert Lom
Dr. Edward Armstrong
Maria Rohm
Elsa Martino
Adolfo Celi
General André Salvé
Alberto de Mendoza
Otto Martino
Charles Aznavour
Michel Raven
Orson Welles
Voice on Tape
Naser Malek Motiee
Inspector
Rik Battaglia
Rick Battaglia/Vendedor
Teresa Gimpera
Maria
Sepideh
Inspector's Girlfriend
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filmed at the Shah Abbas Hotel in Isfahan, Iran — the cast reportedly dealt with 120°F heat and actual scorpions on set.
This was the first color sound version of Christie's novel, released the same year as her death — making it an unintended farewell to her most famous work.
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