Peter Ustinov News

A CLASSIC from the Queen of crime arrived in Bath last night with all the melodrama and mystery you would expect from Agatha Christie.

Comedy from Casablanca director Michael Curtiz starring Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov and Aldo Ray as a trio of soft-hearted convicts who escape from Devil's Island and find shelter with a struggling shopkeeper.

While Albert Finney and Peter Ustinov's cinematic takes have divided fans, there's no doubt that when it comes to Agatha Christie's famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot there is only one man who has given what is considered the definitive portrayal - David Suchet.

There are many cinematic points of reference that could be brought to bear on Billy Budd , the 1948 opera by composer Benjamin Britten, novelist/librettist E.M. Forster, and frequent Britten collaborator Eric Crozier.