Evil Under the Sun
3,032
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 ... [+]
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"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" | ||||
"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." | ||||
"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" | ||||
"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." |
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