Evil Under The Sun
Oscar-winner Peter Ustinov (Spartacus) is Hercule Poirot in this Agatha Christine whodunit co-starring Jane Birkin and Maggie Smith.
Trying to find how a millionaire wound up with a phony diamond brings Hercule Poirot to an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous. When a murder is committed, everyone has an alibi.
- Director:
- Guy Hamilton ('Live and Let Die', 'Goldfinger', 'The Man with the Golden Gun')
- Writer:
- Anthony Shaffer
- Cast:
- Peter UstinovColin BlakelyJane BirkinNicholas ClayMaggie SmithRoddy McDowallSylvia MilesJames Mason
Reviews & comments
Variety
pressBut fun it is to follow this cast of English and US characters in their stay at the elegantly old-fashioned resort hotel on a remote Tyrrhenian island...
TV Guide
pressOnly the performances, the lovely location, and some Cole Porter tunes make it worth watching.
Time Out
pressWith Ustinov's energetic impersonation of Poirot and Anthony Shaffer's traditionally structured script, Death on the Nile offered a fair recreation of Agatha Christie's world, but this time Christie herself would rightly have disowned the film.
The New York Times
pressThe latest Agatha Christie whodunit to be given the all-star screen treatment, has nothing but style, but its style goes a long way.
Roger Ebert
pressWell, there are delicious moments in the final fifteen minutes of “Evil Under The Sun, but what I especially liked about this Christie were the opening scenes the setup.
Chicago Reader
pressThese all-star Agatha Christie adaptations ... became increasingly slack and campy—though the cast here includes Jane Birkin, Sylvia Miles, Diana Rigg, and Maggie Smith, they might as well be indifferently talented female impersonators.
Variety
pressBut fun it is to follow this cast of English and US characters in their stay at the elegantly old-fashioned resort hotel on a remote Tyrrhenian island...
TV Guide
pressOnly the performances, the lovely location, and some Cole Porter tunes make it worth watching.
Time Out
pressWith Ustinov's energetic impersonation of Poirot and Anthony Shaffer's traditionally structured script, Death on the Nile offered a fair recreation of Agatha Christie's world, but this time Christie herself would rightly have disowned the film.
The New York Times
pressThe latest Agatha Christie whodunit to be given the all-star screen treatment, has nothing but style, but its style goes a long way.
Roger Ebert
pressWell, there are delicious moments in the final fifteen minutes of “Evil Under The Sun, but what I especially liked about this Christie were the opening scenes the setup.
Chicago Reader
pressThese all-star Agatha Christie adaptations ... became increasingly slack and campy—though the cast here includes Jane Birkin, Sylvia Miles, Diana Rigg, and Maggie Smith, they might as well be indifferently talented female impersonators.
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