Evil Under the Sun (1982)

Cast

Peter Ustinov

Hercule Poirot

James Mason

Odell Gardener

Sylvia Miles

Myra Gardener

Roddy McDowall

Rex Brewster

Maggie Smith

Daphne Castle

Jane Birkin

Christine Redfern

Nicholas Clay

Patrick Redfern

Diana Rigg

Arlena Stuart Marshall

Denis Quilley

Kenneth Marshall

Colin Blakely

Horace Blatt

About Evil Under the Sun

An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangling of a notorious stage star.

Popularity

6.6

Budget

$10,000,000

Revenue

$6,110,804

Release

Mar 5, 1982

Genres

Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Drama

Director: Guy Hamilton

Writer: Anthony Shaffer, Barry Sandler

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf

Jun 8, 2023

7.0

Guy Hamilton does wonders here with this fairly far-fetched Agatha Christie story about the murder of an actress - a rather unlikeable creation of Diana Rigg - on an idyllic if somewhat ramshackle island paradise run by Maggie Smith. Peter Ustinov is on hand, luckily, to exercise his little grey cells and establish who did what to whom, and why! James Mason, Sylvia Miles and Roddy McDowall head the supporting list of suspects as "Monsieur Poirot" tries to suss it all out. It is quite an enjoyable affair with some attractive scenery and a few fun sub-plots to the main theme, but it doesn't really compare so well to "Death on the Nile" or "Murder on the Orient Express".

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