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Agatha Christie's Evil Under The Sun [1981]
from Optimum Home Entertainment
starring Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, Jane Birkin, Colin Blakely, Nicholas Clay
directed by Guy Hamilton

Features:

• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Hercule Poirot shows proper swimming techniques
  Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot is challenged to locate a missing jewel. To do this he must go to a small island. Guess who has a tendency to get seasick? He requests his fee in guineas (a guinea is equivalent of 21 shillings.)
  Naturally someone/s is unexplainably dispatched. Of course the island is loaded with the usual suspects. Everyone has a motive and an alibi. By this time you have completely forgotten how the movie started.
  Speaking about the movie, they pulled out all the stops with... more info

• Murder in the sun
  A mysterious murder, unbreakable alibis, and a stolen diamond... all wrapped up in a glitzy, mildly campy shell.
  Yeah, you can't expect "Evil Under the Sun," with its barbed Mediterranean atmosphere, to resemble Agatha Christie's usual cozies. This relaxed murder mystery does succeed at being fun and genuinely befuddling, although the martini-swilling, sunny atmosphere make the entire gruesome murder feel rather too... relaxing. A murder shouldn't seem like a vacation... or should it?
  An insurance... more info

• VISUAL TREAT
  I last saw this on a small black and white TV years ago, and this DVD looks stunning. The film quality is very high and the period detail is excellent. (Compare this to 'The mirror Cracke'd-which, though set in 1953, looks like a 1980 TV movie).
  The costumes, hair, make-up and sets are superb, and the location shooting (in Majorca) is ravishing.
  All of the characters are beautifully portrayed, and although caricatures, are so enjoyably played by excellent actors, and the sparring between Diana... more info

• Well done Sir Peter Ustinov !
  David Suchet ought to watch this & squirm ! This lavish film proves that you can make a superb adaptation that is perfectly watchable without public hanging , dodgy sexual behaviour , terrorism , abortion etc being included . Sir Peter Ustinov's film also proves that you can exclude Captain Hastings , Miss Lemon and Chief Inspector Japp while still having the light comic touches needed to make a murder mystery palatable to viewers of all sensiblities . The casting decisions , settings , costumes and the... more info

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