Evil Under the Sun

Evil Under the Sun

5/3/1982 1h 57m 6.9/10

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

Derek Cracknell

Top Billed Cast

Maggie Smith

Maggie Smith

Daphne Castle

Peter Ustinov

Peter Ustinov

Hercule Poirot

Roddy McDowall

Roddy McDowall

Rex Brewster

James Mason

James Mason

Odell Gardener

Jane Birkin

Jane Birkin

Christine Redfern

Sylvia Miles

Sylvia Miles

Myra Gardener

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

6/8/2023

7/10

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".

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