"Agatha Christie: Poirot" Evil Under the Sun (2001)

Director:

Brian Farnham

Writers:

Agatha Christie (novel) and
Anthony Horowitz (dramatisation)

TV Series:

"Agatha Christie: Poirot" (1989)

Original Air Date:

20 April 2001 (Season 8, Episode 1)

Genre:

Drama | Mystery | Crime | Thriller

Plot:

Recovering from a sudden collapse, Poirot finds little comfort in doctor's orders confining him to a...

Plot Keywords:

Murder | Detective | Hercule Poirot | Remake | Private Detective

Cast

David Suchet	...	Hercule Poirot
Hugh Fraser	...	Hastings
Philip Jackson	...	Chief Inspector Japp
Pauline Moran	...	Miss Lemon
Michael Higgs	...	Patrick Redfern
Tamzin Malleson	...	Christine Redfern
Louise Delamere	...	Arlena Stuart
Tim Meats	...	Stephen Lane
Marsha Fitzalan	...	Rosamund Darnley
Carolyn Pickles	...	Emily Brewster
David Mallinson	...	Kenneth Marshall
Russell Tovey	...	Lionel Marshall
Ian Thompson	...	Major Barry
David Timson	...	Horace Blatt
Rosalind March	...	Mrs Castle

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Burgh Island, Bigbury-on-Sea, Devon, England, UK

Company:

A&E Television Networks

Trivia:

, Devon, which also inspired Christie's book "And Then There Were None".

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): During the flashback of Hastings reading the telegram received by Arlena Stuart, he says "Send the money now or you will lose a great deal", but the word "now" does not appear in the typed telegram shown on screen.

Quotes:

Hercule Poirot: [upon hearing a doctor's diagnosis of his fainting at a social gathering] I demand at once a second opinion! Hercule Poirot, he is not obese!
Miss Lemon: 'Medically obese,' Mr. Poirot; it's not quite the same thing.

Movie Connections:

Version of Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun (2007) (VG)

Enjoyable

As with the late Jeremy Brett and Sherlock Holmes, I can only see David Suchet as Agatha Christies "Hercule Poirot", though Peter Ustinov was a great actor. "Evil Under the Sun" is much as the Poirot mysteries of the past. The wonderful characters of Hastings(Hugh Fraser), Miss Lemon(Pauline Moran) and Chief Inspector Japp(Philip Jackson)join Poirot in the solving of a mystery on England's South Coast at a health spa. As the story continues, each character reveals a little bit more of their personalities, and the watcher sees each has gotten a reason to kill Arlena Stuart(Louise Delamere). There are several twists and turns and the ending is surprising, yet as the ending appears all the answers were already there if the watcher looks closely.

I do recommend this film for all those who love Agatha Christie and David Suchet. My only wish; I would hope that David Suchet would think seriously of making "Murder on the Orient Express".