Dead Man's Folly

1986

Crime / Drama / Mystery

8
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 45%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 45% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 2530 2.5K

based on novel or book detective murder mystery

Plot summary

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

Director

Clive Donner Photo
Clive Donner

Top cast

Leslie Schofield Photo
Leslie Schofield as Mr. Tucker
Harry Fielder Photo
Harry Fielder as Tombola Man
Simon Cowell-Parker Photo
Simon Cowell-Parker as Forensic Man
Jean Stapleton Photo
Jean Stapleton as Ariadne Oliver
720p.WEB
861.5 MB
960*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
29.97 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by johnbol 7 / 10

Not brilliant but OK

This is not one of the best movies based on a Agatha Christie novel but i have seen worse. As for Ustinov as Poirot well...i'm getting tired of all those "fans" who claim that Suchett is the "definitive" Poirot, or that Ustinov is the better one. I enjoy both of them as i think both put their own stamp on the part and both have made Poirot movies that were either good or mediocre. This one is not as good as Evil under the sun or Death on the Nile but it still provides you with 90 minutes of entertainment. Most of the acting is so so. I did like Jean Stapleton as Ariadne Oliver but Ustinov has done better in the other Poirot movies i mentioned. Good for a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Reviewed by bkoganbing 7 / 10

A Murder game gets real

Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's Belgian sleuth, is brought up to modern times in Dead Man's Folly. Normally Christie stories are better set in the period that they were written, but in this case no harm is done. Her detectives are quite eternal.Peter Ustinov returns as Poirot with Jonathan Cecil as the ever dependable Captain Hastings and he's been invited to another one of those English estates by American mystery writer Jean Stapleton. She's giving one of those mystery hunt games at the estate and the invited guests are going to be the contestants. It gets really out of hand when three real murders are discovered in the course of this film. A young girl from the village, an old estate caretaker and the wife of the Lord of the Manor Tim Pigott-Smith. And they are connected though how you will be surprised.I will give you two clues the former owner of the estate Constance Cummings knows a lot more than she is revealing and the arrival of Jeff Yagher from America upsets a lot of well laid plans.You'll enjoy figuring this one out if you can.
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