
The Mirror Crack'd(1980)
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.


“Evil is everywhere. Even in paradise.”
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.

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
Evil Under the Sun is a thriller, crime, mystery, drama film released in 1982 exploring themes of island, based on novel or book, detective, greece, murder, murder mystery. Directed by Guy Hamilton, it stars Peter Ustinov, James Mason, Sylvia Miles. 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.
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