Evil Under the Sun (1982)

6.9 ? Mar 05, 1982 1h 57m

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Overview

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.

Overview

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.

Genres

Thriller Crime Mystery Drama

Release Date

March 05, 1982

Rating

6.9 /10

Runtime

1h 57m

Official Trailer from YouTube

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

Emily Hone

Linda Marshall

Paul Antrim

Police Inspector

Cyril Conway

Police Surgeon

John Alderson

Police Sergeant

Richard Vernon

Flewitt

Dimitri Andreas

Gino

Robert Dorning

Concierge

Barbara Hicks

Flewitt's Secretary

Walter Henry

Waiter (uncredited)

Eric Kent

Desk Sergeant (uncredited)

CinemaSerf

7.0/10

Jun 08, 2023

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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