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.

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

Reviews

CinemaSerf

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 cel...

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