Evil Under the Sun

1982 · 117 MIN · IMDB 7.0 · 22,127 VOTES · DIR. Guy Hamilton

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Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 949 lines

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00:02:28 Please, please you must come quick. There is a woman lying dead out on the moors
00:06:51 I happened to know that in three days time she would down be at Daphne' place for a little holiday.
00:11:38 Oh, that's the Redferns. - Patrick and Christine, I seem to remember. Excuse me, I must put my hostess hat on.
00:17:03 Absolutely marvellous. It must be at least two years since you were last on the island.
00:21:33 - And Kern has done the best music you've ever heard. - Arlena, darling, it's simply sensational to see you again!
00:26:25 Ah, there you are Monsieur Poirot!
00:33:01 Yes, you are right, Madame; the sky is blue, the sun is shining, and yet you forget
00:37:14 and you go off with her I'm the laughing stock of the whole hotel
00:44:21 Yeah, well don't forget about my cousin, Hatty Heimenheimer. It took her so long to "work out an idea," they finally had to stash her away in the booby hatch!
00:51:45 Are you kidding? I do not know how to work this thing.
00:56:52 It's a terrible tragedy, Poirot. It's terrible
01:01:03 just before I came up here to have a wash and puff my nose in here
01:04:27 - It matters bacause Madame Arlena was in the way - Monsieur Poirot, you have the French obsession
01:08:09 She was horrid to me and beastly to my daddy
01:11:52 How very irritating!
01:15:54 You're lying, little brat!
01:20:40 and when Arlena appeared on her pedalo, he could have leapt up, pulled her off it ...
01:28:12 A bathing cap, a bath, a bottle, a wrist watch, the diamond, the noonday gun, the breath of the sea and the height of the cliff
01:32:30 All right, see you in the hall in ten minutes
01:36:32 Well, as you know, M.Marshall, was her favourite perfume
01:41:07 and puts her great big Chinese hat over her face and lies still to await the arrival of her husband and yourself
01:45:15 And you had to eliminate the only witness capable of exposing you
01:50:08 The police were satisfied that it was the work of a madman or a tramp
100:00:00 three days fumbling on the high seas

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed949
Dialogue density8.1 lines / min
First line00:02:28
Final line100:00:00

Production Record

DirectorGuy Hamilton
LanguageEnglish
Budget$10,000,000
Revenue$6,110,804
IMDb votes22,127