He copied 100 songs and used 24.ĭirector Guy Hamilton, who also directed The Mirror Crack'd, is said to have admitted to having told the producers John Brabourne and Richard Goodwin that he didn't like Agatha Christie's "stuffy" writing style. To stay historically accurate, Lanchbery went to the Cole Porter estate and looked at all of Porter's compositions up until 1938, when the film is set. There was something about the way they photographed Majorca that give it a certain rolling dignity." He created a seven-minute medley called "Porter meet Poirot" which was later performed with the Boston Pops.
"I felt that the island was a terribly important character in the picture and needed a theme. To recreate the mood of the 1930s, he chose Cole Porter tunes for the entire soundtrack and assigned a song to each situation and each character. I don't think he's ever cheated on himself."Ĭomposer John Lanchbery, normally a ballet conductor, was hired to arrange the music. He has probably been quite true to himself. An ancillary reason is that he's very much in love with himself.
People have asked me why he never married - because he couldn't solve it, of course. He's very vain, self-contained and finicky. When asked how he felt about portraying Hercule Poirot, Ustinov said, "I find Poirot a very engaging character, although he's quite awful, really. The movie was actually shot in various locations in Majorca, Spain, with interior shooting done at the Lee International Studios in Wembley, London. The three previous films had been more-or-less faithful adaptations, but the setting for Evil Under the Sun was moved from the Devon coast of England (reportedly because the hotel that inspired the film was being renovated) to the Mediterranean. This was the fourth Agatha Christie film adaptation by EMI, who had also produced The Mirror Crack'd (1980). Co-starring with Ustinov were Diana Rigg, Jane Birkin, who was also in another Christie adaptation, Death on the Nile (1978), Nicholas Clay, Maggie Smith, Roddy McDowall, Sylvia Miles, James Mason and Colin Blakely, who had appeared in Murder on the Orient Express (1974). Share Evil Under the Sun (1982), based on Agatha Christie's 1941 novel of the same name, with a screenplay by Anthony Shaffer and Barry Sandler, marked the second time that Peter Ustinov played the role of Christie's Belgian sleuth, Hercule Poirot.
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