This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Best movie ever!

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

James Coburn stars as a movie bigwig who hosts six pals for a week on his yacht in the south of France. He loves intricate puzzles and has planned a clever game that will identify the killer of his late wife.A famous cast is the highlight of this film and while it oozes glamour and Hollywood in-jokes, my mind wandered and it took three tries to finish watching it. Coburn is robust and charismatic and also convincingly sadistic. Dyan Cannon is good as an airhead agent but her never-ending, raucous guffaws are tiresome. Ian McShane and Raquel Welch are good as minor characters. Joan Hackett, Richard Benjamin, and James Mason have the most screen time; they are all excellent in well-developed roles and a pleasure to watch.In my opinion, the game that the guests are playing is too convoluted and pointless to follow; there are constant red herrings and it doesn't amount to much in the end. One of the stars leaves halfway through and is greatly missed. Plot holes abound and it's hard to identify with any of the characters or the story.This film is recommended for those who like complex puzzles and clues. I thought it was just okay.

"The Last of Sheila" is my favorite whodunit (along with the 1945 version of "And Then There were None"). It is definitely one of the most involving & intricate whodunits I've seen. And to think it was all devised by old New York pals Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim - brilliant! Witty, sarcastic, sadistic, funny ... brilliant! And brought to the screen in such lively fashion by Broadway vet Herb Ross, who keeps it moving at a crackerjack pace.The casting is terrific! Only Raquel Welch comes off as a tad superficial & unsure of herself. I confess that I've been a fan of James Coburn since I was a little kid, and my God, was he ever in his element as a fun-loving yet cutting & mean-spirited producer on a very serious mission.The bottom line is this: if you enjoy whodunits, then "The Last of Sheila" should be on your list of must-see movies. You'll love it!

No need to recap the plot. Beneath all the glitz, snappy one-liners, and Hollywood insider jokes lurks a turgidly told whodunit that only a Rosetta Stone could untangle. Moreover, whoever edited that hodgepodge of flashbacks should take a refresher course in Charlie Chan, guaranteeing that the several clever clue ideas finally get proper treatment. In fact the entire 2-hour script could use a slimming-down. At the same time, the many narrative defects suggest an OJT effort by actor Perkins and composer Sondheim minus professional supervision. Either that or director Ross was doing his own OJT.The whodunit may be impossible, but the movie still has fun parts. The cast is clearly amused with the suggestive characters and provocative one-liners. Also, the Riviera setting amounts to real candy for the eye, along with many bikinis for the guys. On a more poignant note is Joan Hackett who here, as elsewhere, projects an effortless depth perfectly suited to her part-- what a loss that she died so young. Anyway, the mystery part may flounder, but the peek into colorful show-biz types succeeds. My advice -- go with the People magazine parts and let Sherlock Holmes sort out the rest.

"The Last of Sheila" is a '70s whodunit written by, of all people, Tony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim. And they did a good job! The film stars James Coburn, Dyan Cannon, James Mason, Joan Hackett, Raquel Welch, Ian McShane, and Richard Benjamin. The film begins with a woman, Sheila, who is married to Clinton Green (Coburn), running away from a party and being killed by a hit and run driver. A year later, Green assembles the party guests on a yacht in order to expose the killer. In order to do this, he has set up a deadly game.Well-directed by Herb Ross, "The Last of Sheila" is a highly entertaining film about a bunch of unpleasant people, and it's done with some dark humor. All the actors do a great job. It was wonderful to see the late Joan Hackett once again and to remember how handsome Ian McShane was when he first started out. Coburn and Cannon have the most flamboyant characters - Coburn is mean-spirited and manipulative, and Cannon as a Hollywood agent is a talkative bitch.Besides the clever plot, one learns a couple of things from this film. First of all, Raquel Welch looked the same in 1973 as she does now, go figure. And secondly, the costumes were done by Joel Shumacher, so now we know where our big wheelers and dealers in Hollywood come from.Really a must see - who knew that Stephen Sondheim is not only a brilliant composer and lyricist, but a scriptwriter as well? He wrote this with the late Tony Perkins, a marvelous actor who also seems to have been a man of many talents.