Director Robert Altman’s scathing, somewhat sterile look at the English aristocracy circa 1932, all filtered through the conventions of a murder mystery. As a collection of ladies and gentlemen gather for a hunting party on a lavish country estate, we follow them and their maids, valets and footmen through a weekend of pomp and circumstance that’s barely even interrupted by the host’s demise. Call it Clue with a class consciousness.
