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MOVIE1982 1h 57m GBR
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A hiker finds a dead woman on the Yorkshire moors; the victim, who has been strangled, is identified as Alice Ruber. Shortly afterwards, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov) examines a diamond belonging to millionaire industrialist Sir Horace Blatt (Colin Blakely), and declares it a fake. Assured that Sir Horace gave a real diamond to his mistress and she later returned the fake to him, Poirot agrees to meet Sir Horace at an exclusive Adriatic Sea island resort to confront her. The hotel is the former summer palace of the reigning King of Tyrania, now owned by Daphne Castle (Maggie Smith), who had received the palace "for services rendered".
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Peter Ustinov
Hercule Poirot
Nicholas Clay
Patrick Redfern
Maggie Smith
Daphne Castle
Diana Rigg
Arlena Stuart Marshall
Denis Quilley
Kenneth Marshall
Roddy McDowall
Rex Brewster
Sylvia Miles
Myra Gardener
John Alderson
Police Sergeant