AGATHA CHRISTIE'S DEAD MAN'S FOLLY (1986) ** Agatha Christie's the star of this one: it wouldn't have been any good without her many-stranded and doubled-back plot, and the plot's so good it damn near doesn't make sense anyway. Of course it's entertaining enough to see Peter Ustinov wambling around as the awkward Belgian genius-but he's more like a kindly, eccentric uncle than anyone who could figure out all that stuff Agatha puts in his mouth at the end. Jean Stapleton reprises her historic role as Edith Bunker but as somebody else, this time a famous mystery novelist, who I must say annoys Ustinov in some of the film's better scenes. I like the footage of the fair, it's so very British.
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