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List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $9.98 Features • Anamorphic • Color • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 05 March, 1982 DVD Release : 27 February, 2001 |
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Evil Under the Sun description Mostly for Poirot completists and admirers of then-trendy, all-star ensemble casts from the 1970s and early '80s, Evil Under the Sun finds Peter Ustinov in his second outing as Agatha Christie's famous Belgian detective (three years after 1978's Death on the Nile). As the title promises, the action this time takes place on an Adriatic island (though Christie fans will surely balk at the switch from the novel's setting on the English coast), where a famous stage star (Diana Rigg) is murdered, and the list of likely suspects is unusually high. The parade of legendary performers--Roddy McDowall, James Mason, Sylvia Miles, Maggie Smith, Jane Birkin--plus Ustinov's energetic performance keep things hopping. But Anthony Shaffer's lazy screenplay and director Guy Hamilton's superficial approach nudge everything (action, characters, tone) toward campy, near-parody, with bitchy sniping, tacky costumes, and an obligatory soundtrack of Cole Porter tunes. It's only in the last lap that the film transcends such obviousness and finds its way back to the glories of detective fiction. --Tom Keogh |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Great direction |
| The direction (by Guy Hamilton, who directed some of the early James Bond films) is superb! The framing, the pacing, the look of the movie is carefully, meticulously designed by an organized, logical, and colorful mind - which makes it a pleasure to view. Unlike most of today's movies, which shake the camera (and your insides) unmercifully, assault you with filthy language, and show people acting like subhuman morons rolling in a sewer.
If you want class, intelligence, beauty, and wit - if you want to be entertained and made to feel terrific for about two hours, give or take - then this is the flick to pick up. |
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