Phantom

Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot, it stars Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings. A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during...

Runtime

1h 18m

Director

Leslie S. Hiscott

Cast

Austin Trevor, Adrianne Allen, Richard Cooper

Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld.

Runtime

2h 24m

Director

Brian De Palma

Cast

Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller

Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns up murdered, a well-placed knife wound at the base of his neck. It will take the precise Poirot to sort out the lies from the alibis - and find the criminal be...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Lou Antonio

Cast

Peter Ustinov, Faye Dunaway, David Suchet

In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.

Runtime

1h 34m

Director

Gary Nelson

Cast

Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis, Emma Samms

Fearing the theft of an important secret formula, the scientist Claude Amory asks for help from Monsieur Préval, director of the Sûreté. But when Amory is mysteriously poisoned inside his own home, the detective realizes the case is more serious than he had imagined and decides to investigate each of the suspects.

Runtime

1h 25m

Director

Jean Kemm

Cast

René Alexandre, Harry Arbell, Maxime Desjardins