Thirteen at Dinner (film)

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Thirteen at Dinner
Based on	Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie
Written by	Rod Browning
Directed by	Lou Antonio
Starring	Peter Ustinov; Faye Dunaway; Diane Keen; Bill Nighy; David Suchet
Music by	John Addison
Country of origin	United Kingdom; United States
Original language	English
Production
Producer	Neil Hartley
Cinematography	Curtis Clark
Editor	David A. Simmons
Running time	87 minutes
Production companies	CBS Entertainment Productions; Warner Bros. Television
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	October 19, 1985

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.

Premise

An American film actress is Scotland Yard's prime suspect when her husband, Lord Edgware, is murdered.

In 1974, Murder On The Orient-Express was released, starring Albert Finney as Hercule Poirot. As Finney was unable to reprise his role in 1978, for the sequel, Death On The Nile, Peter Ustinov was cast. He reprised the role for Evil Under The Sun in 1982 and later committed to several made-for-television-films. Apart from Thirteen At Dinner, Murder In Three Acts and Dead Man's Folly followed in 1986. Another screen adaption of one of Christie's novels in 1988, Appointment With Death, marked Ustinov's final portrayal of the Belgian detective.

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