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Released
1988 · FILM

Appointment with Death

“An invitation to murder!”

Directed by
Michael Winner
Written by
Agatha Christie, Anthony Shaffer
Runtime
102 min
CrimeDramaMystery
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from her dominating influence. She takes herself, the children, and her daughter-in-law on holiday to Europe and the Holy Land. At a dig, Emily is found dead and Hercule Poirot investigates.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Michael WinnerShot by David GurfinkelScored by Pino DonaggioDesigned by John Blezard

Box Office

1988 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$960K

Budget$6.0M
Worldwide gross$960K
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $604K — 63% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Peak 465 theaters

Also known as

  • Rendezvous mit einer Leichede
  • Cita con la muertees
  • Rendez-vous avec la mortfr
  • Appuntamento con la morteit

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