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Summary

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.

Details

Release Date: March 5, 1982

Runtime: 117 minutes

Genres: Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Drama

Rating: 6.9/10 (449 votes)


Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov) Collection

  • Death on the Nile

    Death on the Nile

    As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board and every elegant passenger becomes a prime suspect.

  • Evil Under the Sun

    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.

  • Thirteen at Dinner

    Thirteen at Dinner

    Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns up murdered, a well-placed knife wound at the base of his neck. It will take the precise Poirot to sort out the lies from the alibis - and find the criminal before another victim dies.

  • Dead Man's Folly

    Dead Man's Folly

    During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.

  • Murder in Three Acts

    Murder in Three Acts

    In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.

  • Appointment with Death

    Appointment with Death

    Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from her dominating influence. She takes herself, the children, and her daughter-in-law on holiday to Europe and the Holy Land. At a dig, Emily is found dead and Hercule Poirot investigates.


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Cast

  • Peter Ustinov

    Peter Ustinov

    Hercule Poirot

  • James Mason

    James Mason

    Odell Gardener

  • Sylvia Miles

    Sylvia Miles

    Myra Gardener

  • Roddy McDowall

    Roddy McDowall

    Rex Brewster

  • Maggie Smith

    Maggie Smith

    Daphne Castle

  • Jane Birkin

    Jane Birkin

    Christine Redfern

  • Nicholas Clay

    Nicholas Clay

    Patrick Redfern

  • Diana Rigg

    Diana Rigg

    Arlena Stuart Marshall

  • Denis Quilley

    Denis Quilley

    Kenneth Marshall

  • Colin Blakely

    Colin Blakely

    Horace Blatt

  • John Alderson

    John Alderson

    Police Sergeant

  • Richard Vernon

    Richard Vernon

    Flewitt

  • Dimitri Andreas

    Dimitri Andreas

    Gino

  • Robert Dorning

    Robert Dorning

    Concierge

  • Barbara Hicks

    Barbara Hicks

    Flewitt's Secretary

  • Guy Standeven

    Guy Standeven

    Vicar on Train (uncredited)