Trenchcoat (1983)

TRENCHCOAT  (1983)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Michael Tuchner
    Margot Kidder, Robert Hays, David Suchet,
    Gila von Weiterhausen, Daniel Faraldo, Ronald Lacey,
    John Justin, Pauline Delaney, P.G. Stephens
Margot Kidder plays an aspiring mystery writer who jets off to Malta to work on a book and soon finds herself stumbling over dead bodies at a rate that most tourists in Malta would probably find unusual. This has some fun moments, all of them playing off Kidder's talent for screwball comedy. (The sequence where she zones out on sodium pentathol is a deadpan highlight.) The film never quite finds a groove, though, and the results are uneven. Malta and Margot are the visual attractions. Both are worth a look.