Evil Under the Sun (1982)
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.
- Guy Hamilton
- Andy Armstrong
- Derek Cracknell
- Agatha Christie
- Anthony Shaffer
- Barry Sandler
Rating: 6.9/10 by 424 users
Alternative Title:
Nyaraló gyilkosok - HU
Agatha Christie: Das Böse unter der Sonne - DE
Morte ao Sol - PT
Zlo pod sluncem - CZ
午日奇屍 - HK
Hercule Poirot Mord I Solen - DK
백주의 악마 - KR
Meurtre au soleil - FR
Δύο Εγκλήματα Κάτω από τον Ήλιο - GR
Evil Under the Sun - CN
Muerte bajo el sol - ES
Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
Français
English
Deutsch
Runtime: 01 hour 57 minutes
Budget: $10,000,000
Revenue: $6,110,804
Plot Keyword: island, based on novel or book, detective, greece, murder, murder mystery, holiday resort
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".
