Samuel LoveThe 1970s and 1980s saw a stylish wave of Agatha Christie adaptations that brought the celebrated author’s classic mysteries to the big screen with star-studded casts and lush period detail, setting the standard for the whodunit with an influence that is felt to this day in Rian Johnson’s Knives Out series. These classic films – starting with Sidney Lumet’s take on Murder on the Orient Express that won an Academy Award for Ingrid Bergman and earned five further nominations – have never been bettered when it comes to Christie on screen, and StudioCanal’s new 4K releases look absolutely magnificent.
Murder on the Orient Express
Elegant, all-star production introducing Albert Finney as the first screen Hercule Poirot. A no-good American Tycoon lies dead with twelve dagger wounds, but which of the passengers is the guilty party? Includes an Academy Award-winning performance from Ingrid Bergman.
Special Features
- NEW Interview with Jacqueline Bisset
- Interview with Richard Goodwin
- Audio commentary with Howard S. Berger, Steve Mitchell, and Nathaniel Thompson
- Agatha Christie: A Portrait
- Making ‘Murder on the Orient Express’: All Aboard
- Making ‘Murder on the Orient Express’: The Ride
- Making ‘Murder on the Orient Express’: The Passengers
- Making ‘Murder on the Orient Express’: The End of the Line
- Behind the Scenes Stills Gallery
- Original trailer
Death on the Nile
A visually sumptuous and quintessentially British production, Death on the Nile won an Academy Award for Anthony Powell’s costume design and introduced Peter Ustinov in his first portrayal as the Belgian detective Poirot. Aboard a luxury Nile steamer a mystery assassin takes the life of an heiress.
Special Features
- NEW Sparkling Homicide: A Video Essay by David Cairns
- Audio commentary with Howard S. Berger, Steve Mitchell, and Nathaniel Thompson
- Making Of
- Interview with Angela Lansbury
- Interview with costume designer Anthony Powell
- Interview with Producer Richard Goodwin
- Interview with Peter Ustinov
- Interview with Jane Birkin
- Behind the Scenes stills gallery
- Costume Designs Gallery
- Original Trailer
The Mirror Crack’d
Angela Lansbury stars as supersleuth Miss Marple who sets about solving a mysterious death in the archetypal English village of St. Mary Mead.
Special Features
- NEW Introducing Miss Marple featurette
- Audio Commentary by Film Historians Howard S. Berger, Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson
- Interview with screenwriter Barry Sandler
- Interview with Angela Lansbury
- Interview with Producer Richard Goodwin
- Behind the Scenes Stills Gallery
- Storyboards Gallery
Evil Under the Sun
A star-studded cast heads this Agatha Christie story of one man’s efforts to fathom the mysterious death of a resort hotel in the Mediterranean. Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot.
Special Features
- NEW Interview with Emily Hone
- NEW Excessive Creatures: A Video Essay by David Cairns
- Making Of featurette
- Audio commentary with Howard S. Berger, Steve Mitchell, and Nathaniel Thompson
- Interview with costume designer Anthony Powell
- Interview with screenwriter Barry Sandler
- Interview with producer Richard Godwin
- Behind the Scenes stills gallery
- Costume Designs gallery
- Original Trailer
- “The Royal Film Performance 1982: In the Gracious Presence of H. M. the Queen & H. R. H. the Duke of Edinburgh – At the Odeon Leicester Square”
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, DEATH ON THE NILE, THE MIRROR CRACK’D and EVIL UNDER THE SUN are available now on 4K UHD from StudioCanal individually and as part of THE AGATHA CHRISTIE COLLECTION
