Evil Under the Sun

3/5/19821h 57m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Evil is everywhere. Even in paradise. ~

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.

Director:

Guy Hamilton

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$10,000,000.00

Revenue:

$6,110,804.00

Key words:

island
based on novel or book
detective
greece
murder
murder mystery
holiday resort

Cast

Peter Ustinov

~ as ~

Hercule Poirot

James Mason

~ as ~

Odell Gardener

Sylvia Miles

~ as ~

Myra Gardener

Roddy McDowall

~ as ~

Rex Brewster

Maggie Smith

~ as ~

Daphne Castle

Jane Birkin

~ as ~

Christine Redfern

Nicholas Clay

~ as ~

Patrick Redfern

Diana Rigg

~ as ~

Arlena Stuart Marshall

Denis Quilley

~ as ~

Kenneth Marshall

Colin Blakely

~ as ~

Horace Blatt

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 2 year(s) ago
7
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".