It has a cast of marvelous actors who communicate mosly through rude remarks: The film, which opens today at the New York 1 and other theaters, has Peter Ustinov, wittier and wider than ever, as the brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. ''Evil Under the Sun,'' the latest Agatha Christie whodunit to be given the all-star screen treatment, has nothing but style, but its style goes a long way. Come what may, everyone dresses for dinner at 8, including the gentleman whose beloved wife that morning was found on the beach in untimely death, strangled and, for good measure, bashed about the head. Even when the mots are not especially fresh, they are delivered with the kind of elegance that only the rich, famous or heedless can affect with confidence. Style is everything - the weapon as well as a defense.
They're all too busy with their intramural assaults on friendship, marriage, reputation, character and, when pushed to the limits, life itself.īoredom is the enemy in this world. It's the late 1930's, just about the time of the Anschluss, though no one at the hotel could care less about Hitler, National Socialism, Austria's sovereignty or an era's imminent end. THE setting is an island in the Adriatic and a small, exquisite, extremely expensive resort hotel that once was the summer palace of the reigning king of Tyrania.
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