Evil Under the Sun

1982

Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

24
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 74% · 14 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 74% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 23492 23.5K

island based on novel or book detective greece murder murder mystery

Plot 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.

Director

Guy Hamilton Photo
Guy Hamilton

Top cast

Denis Quilley Photo
Denis Quilley as Kenneth Marshall
Colin Blakely Photo
Colin Blakely as Sir Horace Blatt
John Alderson Photo
John Alderson as Police Sergeant
James Mason Photo
James Mason as Odell Gardener
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815.96 MB
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English 2.0
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24.000 fps
12 hr 0 min
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1.84 GB
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English 2.0
NR
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24.000 fps
12 hr 0 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by lasttimeisaw 7 / 10

Evil Under The Sun

I have watched another two notoriously famous works of Agatha Christie, MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (1974) and DEATH ON THE NILE (1978), despite of three in a row, I could still enjoy this one to a great extent.The distinction of a star-studded cast and an isolated milieu is too overt to be surprising, luckily enough the island itself compensates a mind-distracting delightfulness. Also it has been the third time around, so as that I am lucidly familiar with its plot design-pattern, the obvious target is farcically recognizable and the murderer is not so perplexing to guess, in addition that all the cartoonish characters attenuate the tone of the headlining murder, which I will recommend to those who usually are shunned by the murder/crime genre.Speaking of its cast, I adore Maggie Smth, I am thoroughly enjoy her a touch over-the-top performance here, also Jane Birkin is magnificently multi-faceted (I couldn't recall her roll in MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS though). Diana Rigg and Sylvia Miles are perfectly for their roles as bitchy, bitter, vanity bourgeois women. By comparison the equivalent supporting male cast is being eclipsed wholesale, of which even a renowned James Mason cannot avoid.Peter Ustinov's Pourot is cannily uncompromising with a sharp wit under the contrast of his chubby appearance (although my favorite is Albert Finney in MOTOE). I'm curious now Sherlock Holmes franchise has been resuscitated into somewhat bromance-cum-action flick, maybe it's the right time for Monseiur Pourot to reestablish his name as a genuine detective mind versus a lumbering body, let wisdom rules again!
Reviewed by petra_ste 8 / 10

Are you all comfortable? Even the murderer?

I love Peter Ustinov as Poirot. Maybe he is not as close to his fastidious book counterpart as David Suchet or Albert Finney, but his version of the Belgian detective has a playful humanity, wise and sweetly ironic at the same time, which I find utterly engaging. This is one of those rare cases where the character as adapted and performed has replaced the book one in my mind.In this murder mystery set on a Mediterranean island (a departure from the novel, which took place in Devon), Ustinov is surrounded by a first-rate cast, featuring, among others, Maggie Smith, James Mason and Diana Rigg. Dialogues are witty, characters effectively drawn: Christie had a gift for recreating upper-class banter, and the great Anthony Shaffer (Sleuth) adapted the book for the screen.The solution doesn't really hold up to close scrutiny - without going into spoiler territory, the murderous plan required a series of lucky, unpredictable occurrences to succeed - but Ustinov is a delight to watch.7,5/10
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