‘The Last of Sheila’: Agatha Christie Lite

Cutthroat parlor games of D-list celebrities in the south of France

PG | 2h | Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 14 June 1973 (USA)

Produced at the peak of the American New Wave, “The Last of Sheila” (“Sheila”) was the work of three unlikely collaborators, two of whom had never and never would again work as filmmakers. They would be Broadway composer Steven Sondheim and actor Anthony Perkins, known best as the lead in “Psycho.”