Thirteen at Dinner (1985)

Directed by

Lou Antonio

Genre

mystery film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

12

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 84 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of a London aristocrat. The case involves a large cast of suspects including the victim's actress wife and a mysterious lookalike.

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What happens

Thirteen at Dinner is a 1985 British-American made-for-television mystery film featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Adapted by Rod Browning from the 1933 Agatha Christie novel Lord Edgware Dies, it was directed by Lou Antonio and starred Peter Ustinov, Faye Dunaway, Jonathan Cecil, Diane Keen, Bill Nighy and David Suchet, who was later to play Poirot in the long-running television series entitled Agatha Christie's Poirot. The film first aired on CBS Television on October 18, 1985. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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