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Evil Under the Sun is a 1982 British mystery film based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie and directed by Guy Hamilton. Peter Ustinov stars as Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective whom he had previously played in Death on the Nile (1978).
Mar 5, 1982 · Evil Under the Sun: Directed by Guy Hamilton. With Peter Ustinov, Colin Blakely, Jane Birkin, Nicholas Clay. Trying to find how a millionaire wound up with a phony diamond brings Hercule Poirot to an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous.
- (20K)
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Guy Hamilton
- 1982-03-05
Evil Under the Sun is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in June 1941 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in October of the same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00.
Evil Under the Sun. The delicious moments in an Agatha Christie film are supposed to come at the end, when the detective (in this case, the redoubtable Hercule Poirot) gathers everyone in the sitting room and toys with their guilt complexes before finally fingering the murderer.
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Hercule Poirot (Sir Peter Ustinov) is investigating a murder and a fake diamond. His investigations take him to a holiday resort on an island in the Adriatic Sea. While he is there, Arlena Marshall (Dame Diana Rigg) turns up dead, murdered.
Agatha Christie's Belgian sleuth, Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov), solves the murder of an actress at a Balkan resort.
- (12)
- Mystery & Thriller
- PG
