Evil Under the Sun

Mar 5, 1982

1h 57m

★ 6.9

Evil is everywhere. Even in paradise.

Overview

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.

Genres

Thriller

Crime

Mystery

Drama

Production Companies

EMI Films

G.W. Films

Titan Productions

Agatha Christie

Evil Under the Sun Trailers

Cast

Hercule Poirot

Peter Ustinov

Odell Gardener

James Mason

Myra Gardener

Sylvia Miles

Rex Brewster

Roddy McDowall

Daphne Castle

Maggie Smith

Christine Redfern

Jane Birkin

Patrick Redfern

Nicholas Clay

Arlena Stuart Marshall

Diana Rigg

Kenneth Marshall

Denis Quilley

Horace Blatt

Colin Blakely

Linda Marshall

Emily Hone

Police Inspector

Paul Antrim

Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from her dominating influence. She takes herself, the children, and her daughter-in-law on holiday to Europe and the Holy Land. At a dig, Emily is found dead and Hercule Poirot investigates.

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