Evil Under the Sun (1982): Hotelier Maggie Smith’s star guest is a bitchy actress (Diana Rigg) everyone wants to kill – for refusing to do a stage show, for stopping a book, or for having an affair with a married man in front of his shy wife (Jane Birkin). 

Director Guy Hamilton’s attractive 1982 whodunit thriller film Evil Under the Sun finds Peter Ustinov happily back for a second time as Belgian super-sleuth Hercule Poirot in this enjoyable and diverting follow-up to the John Brabourne-Richard Goodwin production team’s Death on the Nile (1978). Screenwriter Anthony Shaffer again is the man successfully rewriting the 1941 novel by Agatha Christie for the screen, with uncredited work by Barry Sandler.

When Poirot is asked to check out a blue-hued diamond belonging to millionaire ...

Director Sidney Lumet’s sumptuous, famous 1974 film mystery set a cinema trend, starting a long, profitable train of Agatha Christie hit movies. This film’s tagline is ‘The greatest cast of suspicious characters ever involved in murder.’

A dazzling, all-star cast boards famous train, but alas all too soon a nasty American business tycoon, Mr. Ratchett (Richard Widmark) gets murdered. But luckily, or perhaps unluckily, for the passengers, ace Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot is also on the train. Poirot is asked by his train company director friend Bianchi (Martin Balsam) to investigate the killing.

The examination of the body by Dr Constantine (George Coulouris) shows Ratchett was stabbed 12 times, and at least three of them could have been fatal wounds...