EVIL UNDER THE SUN film: Pounce!

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EVIL UNDER THE SUN film: Pounce!#1

Posted: 8/2/07 at 9:21pm

Campy, witty, delicious Agatha Christie film with the great bitchy chemistry of Diana Rigg and Maggie Smith. Peter Ustinov, James Mason, and Sylvia Miles {!} are along for the ride in this 1982 flick filled with Cole Porter tunes and the late Nicholas Clay in black speedos. Who could ask for anything more?

Do you know what happens when you let Veal Prince Orloff sit in an oven too long?

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re: EVIL UNDER THE SUN film: Pounce!#2

Posted: 8/3/07 at 12:22am

Love it!

Love "Death on the Nile" too.

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re: EVIL UNDER THE SUN film: Pounce!#2

Posted: 8/3/07 at 7:33am

The Diana Rigg/Maggie Smith chemistry is fantasic ("She could always throw her legs in the air higher than anyone (pause) and wider"), but for me the Maggie Smith/Bette Davis pairing in "Death on the Nile" is the best of any Christie film.

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re: EVIL UNDER THE SUN film: Pounce!#3

Posted: 8/3/07 at 8:54am

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re: EVIL UNDER THE SUN film: Pounce!#4

Posted: 8/3/07 at 8:58am

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re: EVIL UNDER THE SUN film: Pounce!#5

Posted: 8/3/07 at 9:03am

• Evil Under The Sun
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and can we have a collective yum for Nicholas Clay...



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Updated On: 8/3/07 at 09:03 AM

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re: EVIL UNDER THE SUN film: Pounce!#6

Posted: 8/3/07 at 10:14am

Lansbury deserved an oscar nom for ...Nile.

Love these films.

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re: EVIL UNDER THE SUN film: Pounce!#7

Posted: 8/3/07 at 3:43pm

I preferred MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS. These films started to increase the camp quotient a bit too much for me.

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re: EVIL UNDER THE SUN film: Pounce!#8

Posted: 8/3/07 at 10:42pm

I found the "Nile" and "Sun" to be a bit too campy, too. Anthony Shaffer could lay it on a bit thick, at times. And, being the Agatha Christie fan, I thought that there was no need to tart up "Sun". The book takes place at a beach hotel in Cornwall, the movie on the French Riveria.

And I wondered if back in the 30s/40s, even men who looked like Nicholas Clay, wore swimtrunks that brief.

Though, now, I realize that, regarding Nicholas Clay in those swimtrunks, my feelings were best expressed by the character Sabina in Thornton Wilder's "Skin of Our Teeth" when she said "Don't ask about the ice cream on your plate, just enjoy..."

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re: EVIL UNDER THE SUN film: Pounce!#9

Posted: 8/3/07 at 11:23pm

I don't think "Sun" suffered from the change in setting. It was beautiful and commercially more attractive than had it been filmed in Cornwall.

This and "Nile" were not commercial successes; there were no A-list American stars in those films to bring people in. Jane Fonda could have played Diana Rigg's part and Quinn Cummings could have been the bratty daughter. :)

Lansbury was nommed for a Golden Globe for "Nile" and won 2 critics awards. But the b/o was not there.

Do you know what happens when you let Veal Prince Orloff sit in an oven too long?

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re: EVIL UNDER THE SUN film: Pounce!#10

Posted: 8/4/07 at 12:37am

Murder on the Orient Express is the best of all the Christie adaptations, for sure. But the acting in Evil and Nile is just too delicious.

I killed the boss, you don't think they're gonna fire me over a thing like that!!!!