Dead Man's Folly (film)

Dead Man's Folly (film): Dead Man's Folly

The DVD Cover

Directed by Clive Donner

Written by Agatha Christie
Rod Browning

Starring Peter Ustinov
Jean Stapleton
Constance Cummings
Tim Pigott-Smith
Jonathan Cecil

Distributed by CBS Television

Release date(s) 8 January 1986

Running time 96 minutes

Country United Kingdom
United States

Language English

Dead Man's Folly is a 1986 British-American television film featuring Agatha Christie's Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. It is based on Christie's novel Dead Man's Folly. The film was irected by Clive Donner it starred Peter Ustinov, Jean Stapleton, Constance Cummings, Nicollette Sheridan, Tim Pigott-Smith, Jonathan Cecil and Kenneth Cranham. It was shot largely on location at West Wycombe Park in Buckinghamshire, England.

External links

Dead Man's Folly at the Internet Movie Database

v · d · eHercule Poirot

Creator
Agatha Christie

Characters
Hercule Poirot • Arthur Hastings • Sven Hjerson • James Harold Japp • Ariadne Oliver • Colonel Race

Books

Novels

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) • The Murder on the Links (1923) • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) • The Big Four (1927) • The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928) • Peril at End House (1932) • Lord Edgware Dies (1933) • Murder on the Orient Express (1934) • Three Act Tragedy (1934) • Death in the Clouds (1935) • The A.B.C. Murders (1936) • Cards on the Table (1936) • Murder in Mesopotamia (1936) • Death on the Nile (1937) • Dumb Witness (1937) • Appointment with Death (1938) • Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1938) • Sad Cypress (1940) • One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1940) • Evil Under the Sun (1941) • Five Little Pigs (1942) • The Hollow (1946) • Taken at the Flood (1948) • Mrs McGinty's Dead (1952) • After the Funeral (1953) • Hickory Dickory Dock (1955) • Dead Man's Folly (1956) • Cat Among the Pigeons (1959) • The Clocks (1963) • Third Girl (1966) • Hallowe'en Party (1969) • Elephants Can Remember (1972) • Curtain (1975)

Short story
collections

Poirot Investigates (1924) • Murder in the Mews (1937) • The Regatta Mystery (1939) • The Labours of Hercules (1947) • The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (1948) • Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (1950) • The Under Dog and Other Stories (1951) • The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960) • Double Sin and Other Stories (1961) • Poirot's Early Cases (1974) • Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (1991) • The Harlequin Tea Set (1997) • While the Light Lasts and Other Stories (1997)

Film adaptations

Austin Trevor

Alibi (1931) • Black Coffee (1931) • Lord Edgware Dies (1934)

Albert Finney

Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

Peter Ustinov

Death on the Nile (1978) • Evil Under the Sun (1982) • Thirteen at Dinner (1985) • Dead Man's Folly (1986) • Murder in Three Acts (1986) • Appointment with Death (1988)

Other

The Alphabet Murders (1965) • Murder on the Orient Express (2001)

Plays
Alibi (1928) • Black Coffee (1930)

Television
adaptations

David Suchet

Agatha Christie's Poirot (Series One (1989) • Series Two (1990) • Series Three (1991) • Series Four (1992) • Series Five (1993) • Series Six (1995-96) • Series Seven (2000) • Series Eight (2001) • Series Nine (2003-04) • Series Ten (2006) • Series Eleven (2008) • Series Twelve (2009-10)

Other

Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple (2004-05)

Video games
Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express (2006) • Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile (2007) • Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun (2007) • Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders (2009)

See also
Parodies and references • Radio adaptations • Tropes in Agatha Christie's novels • Miss Marple

Category

v · d · eFilms directed by Clive Donner

1950s
The Secret Place (1957) · Heart of a Child (1958)

1960s
Some People (1962) · The Caretaker (1963) · Nothing But the Best (1964) · What's New Pussycat? (1965) · Luv (1967) · Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968) · Alfred the Great (1969)

1970s
Vampira (1974) · Rogue Male (1976) · Spectre (1977) · The Three Hostages (1977)

1980s
The Nude Bomb (1980) · Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981) · Oliver Twist (1982) · The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) · A Christmas Carol (1984) · Dead Man's Folly (1986) · Babes in Toyland (1986) · Stealing Heaven (1988)

Categories:
British films
American films
English-language films
1980s British film stubs
1986 films
Television films
Films based on Hercule Poirot books

Dead Man's Folly
The DVD Cover
Directed by	Clive Donner
Written by	Agatha Christie Rod Browning
Starring	Peter Ustinov Jean Stapleton Constance Cummings Tim Pigott-Smith Jonathan Cecil
Distributed by	CBS Television
Release date(s)	8 January 1986
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United Kingdom United States
Language	English

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