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Detective | Based On Novel Or Book
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Best Motion Picture | 1983 | Anthony
Budget 10,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 6,110,804 USD
Peter Ustinov designed the bathing suit he wore in this movie.
Despite being cheaper, less starry and less ambitious than its two predecessors - Murder on the Orient Express (1974) and Death On the Nile (1978), both big hits - this movie was a huge money-loser and put an end to the Agatha Christie franchise of producers John Brabourne and Richard Goodwin.
When Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov) examines the hotel register for signatures of previous guests, he discovers the names of several international celebrities during the 1930s, including Cole Porter, Ivor Novello, Maurice Chevalier, Fred Astaire, Adele Astaire, Charlie Chaplin, and possibly Marlene Dietrich. An entry listing a home address is listed as Berlin, although the signature is illegible aside from the capital M and D). The register is likely a private joke by the filmmakers since it appears on-screen for only a brief second or two.
Peter Ustinov dubbed himself for the German version of this movie.
This movie relocates the provincial North Devon, England setting on Smuggler's Island off the Devonshire Coast from the Agatha Christie source "Evil Under the Sun" novel to an island in the Adriatic Sea "somewhere west of Suez", a setting played by the exotic Spanish island location of Mallorca. Screenwriter Anthony Shaffer once said of this: "The location is important. The island should be a star. Just as the Nile steamer (in Death on the Nile (1978)) and the Orient Express (in Murder on the Orient Express (1974)) were stars." Mallorca was also, at the time, the home of Director Guy Hamilton.
"Daphne Castle: Arlena and I were in the chorus of a show together, not that I could ever compete. Even in those days, she could always throw her legs up in the air higher than any of us... and wider."
"Arlena Stuart Marshall: Oh, dear! I'm the last to arrive. Daphne Castle: Have a sausage. You must be starving having to wait all that time in your room."
