Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States, Spain
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
The story
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.
- island
- based on novel or book
- detective
- greece
- murder
- murder mystery
- holiday resort
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Peter Ustinov
Hercule Poirot
James Mason
Odell Gardener
Sylvia Miles
Myra Gardener
Roddy McDowall
Rex Brewster
- Maggie Smith — Daphne Castle
- Jane Birkin — Christine Redfern
- Nicholas Clay — Patrick Redfern
- Diana Rigg — Arlena Stuart Marshall
- Denis Quilley — Kenneth Marshall
- Colin Blakely — Horace Blatt
- Emily Hone — Linda Marshall
- Paul Antrim — Police Inspector
- Cyril Conway — Police Surgeon
- John Alderson — Police Sergeant
- Richard Vernon — Flewitt
- Directed
- Guy Hamilton
- Written
- Anthony Shaffer, Barry Sandler
Production
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 · 536 ratings
- Studio
- EMI Films, G.W. Films, Titan Productions, Agatha Christie
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1978Death on the Nile
Where it starts.
Evil Under the Sun
1982 · You’re here
Thirteen at Dinner
1985
Dead Man's Folly
1986
Murder in Three Acts
1986
Appointment with Death
1988
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
