Evil under the sun

United Kingdom, 1981

Film
Please note

Sorry, we aren't able to make images or video for this item available to the public online.

Source: Some information on this page may have been sourced as part of the 2023 Wikimedia Australia Partnership Projects grant, with the purpose of improving and expanding the use of Wikidata on our website. Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. Read more about this project here.

Peter Ustinov stars as Agatha Christie’s famed Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in this all-star production of ‘Evil under the sun’. Diana Rigg is bitchy Broadway musical star Arlena Marshall, on holiday with her husband and stepdaughter on an Adriatic island. The hotel is filled with people who have a reason to hate her and when she is found strangled on a beach, Poirot must exercise “his little grey cells” and find the murderer. Excellent costuming, a witty screenplay by Anthony Schaffer and a delightful Cole Porter soundtrack will delight.

Content notification

Our collection comprises over 40,000 moving image works, acquired and catalogued between the 1940s and early 2000s. As a result, some items may reflect outdated, offensive and possibly harmful views and opinions. ACMI is working to identify and redress such usages.

Learn more about our collection and our collection policy here. If you come across harmful content on our website that you would like to report, let us know.

How to watch

This work has not been digitised and is currently unavailable to view online. It may be possible for approved reseachers to view onsite at ACMI.

Learn more about accessing our collection

Collection

In ACMI's collection

Credits

director

Guy Hamilton

co-producer

John Brabourne

Richard Goodwin

production company

EMI/Parlophone

Titan Film Productions

Duration

01:52:00:00

Production places
United Kingdom
Production dates
1981

Please note: this archive is an ongoing body of work. Sometimes the credit information (director, year etc) isn’t available so these fields may be left blank; we are progressively filling these in with further research.

Cite this work on Wikipedia

If you would like to cite this item, please use the following template: {{cite web |url=https://acmi.net.au/works/85616--evil-under-the-sun/ |title=Evil under the sun |author=Australian Centre for the Moving Image |access-date=28 November 2024 |publisher=Australian Centre for the Moving Image}}