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Evil Under the Sun

1982

Guy Hamilton

Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Colin Blakely, Nicholas Clay ...

6.4

3,030

Mystery Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate a case for an insurance company regarding firstly a dead woman's body found on a moor and then a important diamond sent to the company to be insured turns out to be a fake. Poirot discovers that the diamond was bought for Arlena Marshall by Sir Horace Platt and Arlena is on her honeymoon with her husband and step-daughter on a tropical island hotel. He joins them on the island and finds that ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Evil Under The Sun is not, alas, as good as Beat the Devil, but it is the best of the recent group of Christie retreads"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"Evil Under the Sun, the latest Agatha Christie whodunit to be given the all-star screen treatment, has nothing but style, but its style goes a long way."	POS
United States	TV Guide	"Though director Guy Hamilton has tried to make the Christie formula more cinematic by trimming the number of characters and streamlining the plot, the picture is still rather uninteresting"	NEG
United States	David Ansen Newsweek	"Guy Hamilton's movie is rather more effective as an advertisement for Majorca than as a thriller (...) Think of it as a languid cocktail party with a terrific guest list."	NEU

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