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Thirteen at Dinner

  • TV Movie
  • 19851985
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 27m
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
2.5K
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Peter Ustinov in Thirteen at Dinner (1985)
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An American movie actress, best known for playing dumb blondes, is Scotland Yard's prime suspect when her husband, Lord Edgware, is murdered. The great detective, Hercule Poirot, digs deeper... Read allAn American movie actress, best known for playing dumb blondes, is Scotland Yard's prime suspect when her husband, Lord Edgware, is murdered. The great detective, Hercule Poirot, digs deeper into the case.An American movie actress, best known for playing dumb blondes, is Scotland Yard's prime suspect when her husband, Lord Edgware, is murdered. The great detective, Hercule Poirot, digs deeper into the case.
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
2.5K
YOUR RATING
    • Lou Antonio
    • Agatha Christie(novel)
    • Rod Browning(teleplay)
  • Stars
    • Peter Ustinov
    • Faye Dunaway
    • David Suchet
    • Lou Antonio
    • Agatha Christie(novel)
    • Rod Browning(teleplay)
  • Stars
    • Peter Ustinov
    • Faye Dunaway
    • David Suchet
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    • 34User reviews
    • 8Critic reviews
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    Faye Dunaway and Peter Ustinov in Thirteen at Dinner (1985)
    Bette Davis, Peter Ustinov, and Helen Hayes in Murder Is Easy (1982)
    Peter Ustinov in Thirteen at Dinner (1985)
    Faye Dunaway, Peter Ustinov, and Jonathan Cecil in Thirteen at Dinner (1985)

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    Peter Ustinov
    Peter Ustinov
    • Hercule Poirot
    Faye Dunaway
    Faye Dunaway
    • Jane Wilkinson…
    David Suchet
    David Suchet
    • Inspector Japp
    Jonathan Cecil
    Jonathan Cecil
    • Captain Arthur Hastings
    Bill Nighy
    Bill Nighy
    • Ronald Marsh
    Diane Keen
    Diane Keen
    • Jenny Driver
    John Stride
    John Stride
    • Film Director
    Benedict Taylor
    Benedict Taylor
    • Donald Ross
    Lee Horsley
    Lee Horsley
    • Bryan Martin
    Allan Cuthbertson
    Allan Cuthbertson
    • Sir Montague Corner
    Glyn Baker
    Glyn Baker
    • Lord Edgware's Butler
    John Barron
    John Barron
    • Lord Edgware
    Peter Clapham
    • Mr. Wildburn
    Lesley Dunlop
    Lesley Dunlop
    • Alice Bennett
    Avril Elgar
    Avril Elgar
    • Miss Carroll
    Oriane Grieve
    • Serious Actress
    • (as Orianne Grieve)
    Russell Grant
    Russell Grant
    • Moxon
    • (as Russell Keith-Grant)
    Roger Milner
    • Duke of Merton's Footman
      • Lou Antonio
      • Agatha Christie(novel)
      • Rod Browning(teleplay)
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Appearing here as Inspector Japp, David Suchet played Hercule Poirot in the television series Poirot (1989), including Lord Edgware Dies (2000), another version of this story.
    • Goofs
      During Poirot's solution the long tracking shot of the dinner party during the flashback has been reversed as evidenced by one of the maid's walking backwards behind the seated characters.
    • Quotes

      Inspector Japp: Poirot - buzz off like a good chap, will you? I've got bigger fish to fry.

      Hercule Poirot: In a good bouillabaisse the little fish are often tastier than the big ones.

      Inspector Japp: What are you talking about?

      Hercule Poirot: Add poison, however, and the whole soup is polluted. Then the size of the fish are immaterial.

      Inspector Japp: What's fish got to do with it?

      Hercule Poirot: It was your own metaphor; I didn't bring the fish...

      Inspector Japp: I didn't either!

      Hercule Poirot: Stop fish then! Let's leave it out!

    • Connections
      Followed by Dead Man's Folly (1986)
    • Soundtracks
      Die Walküre: Ride of the Valkyries
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      Composed by Richard Wagner

    User reviews34

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    7/10
    Better than some by this team
    Unlike some reviewers here, and much as I admire Ustinov's talents and wit, I have never been convinced of him as the little Belgian, because decades ago I read all Dame Agatha's Poirot stories and Ustinov is too tall --- too big altogether --- and (although this will be down to the scripts plus the directors and designers of these movies) simply doesn't display the obsessive-compulsive, hyper-neat little man's character as his creator conceived and described him in print. Suchet does.

    When I saw Dead Man's Folly the overriding memory that I took away was of the supreme ineffectuality of Jonathan Cecil's Hastings. There is some of that here, but far less. This is occasionally Cecil's fault, but is chiefly that of the writer who gave him nothing coherent to do or say at times, so he seemed to be standing there in the scene simply waiting for the other actors to say their lines. Here, however, Hastings is given a bit more to say, although there are times when once again Cecil is all too obviously waiting for his cue to say his next line. Where he fails seriously in his acting is when he and Ustinov are alone and discussing the case, and Cecil never varies the bland "waiting for his next line" face and had I been the director I would have screamed at him "for goodness' sake, man, look astonished! How did Poirot come up with what he's just said?" or "Look worried! Look extremely alarmed, even! You've just been told this chap's life is in danger!" This is, I have to say, just fearfully weak acting from one who should be the number two regular part in this screen crime-busting team, but who in fact all too often is simply a bit of set dressing who seems to be a half-wit mostly unaware of the deadly crimes going on around him.
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    • Release date
      • October 19, 1985 (United States)
      • United States
      • United Kingdom
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • London, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • CBS Entertainment Production
      • Warner Bros. Television
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    • 1 hour 27 minutes
      • Color
      • Mono

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