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19 September 1985 (USA) morePlot:
Hercule Poirot appears on a TV talk show with actor Bryan Martin who is making an action/detective movie with Jane Wilkinson... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Changing Mores more (21 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Peter Ustinov | ... | Hercule Poirot |
 | Faye Dunaway | ... | Jane Wilkinson / Carlotta Adams |
 | David Suchet | ... | Inspector Japp |
| Jonathan Cecil | ... | Hastings |
 | Bill Nighy | ... | Ronald Marsh |
| Diane Keen | ... | Jenny Driver |
| John Stride | ... | Film Director |
 | Benedict Taylor | ... | Donald Ross |
| Lee Horsley | ... | Bryan Martin |
| Allan Cuthbertson | ... | Sir Montague Corner |
| Glyn Baker | ... | Lord Edgeware's Butler |
| John Barron | ... | Lord George Edgeware |
| Peter Clapham | ... | Mr. Wildburn |
| Lesley Dunlop | ... | Alice Bennett |
| Avril Elgar | ... | Miss Carroll |
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Germany:87 min | USA:87 min | UK:90 min (video)Language:
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David Suchet later played Hercule Poirot in the TV series "Agatha Christie: Poirot" (1989) and several subsequent TV specials, including "Agatha Christie: Poirot: Lord Edgware Dies (#7.2)" (2000), another version of this film. moreFAQ
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Agatha Christie's ageless Hercule Poirot once again stylishly portrayed by Peter Ustinov makes his television debut in Thirteen for Dinner. The famous Belgian sleuth is a guest on the David Frost Show with a pair of celebrities, Lee Horsley and Faye Dunaway who will shortly figure prominently in his next case.
Although Ustinov is flawless as ever, the updating of the story from the time of Stanley Baldwin to the time of Margaret Thatcher makes the plot rather silly. Without giving anything away, let me say that what would have made sense for a motive in 1935 looks kind of ridiculous in 1985 given changing mores.
The presence of David Suchet who played Hercule Poirot on the BBC in many adaptations of Agatha Christie as Inspector Japp in this film also gives it some interest. The scenes with Poirot and Suchet are good and Suchet is so good an actor you barely recognize him.
Some Christie stories can be successfully updated. But sad to say Thirteen at Dinner is not one of them.