Re: MT VOID, 11/22/24 -- Vol. 43, No. 21, Whole Number 2355

On 11/24/2024 9:20 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:

EVIL UNDER THE SUN (1982): There were a lot of changes in this
version, and not just dropping characters, etc., to make it fit in
the time slot.
 The setting was moved from England to the Balkans, the Jolly Roger
is now a yacht rather than a hotel, the hotel manager is Daphne
Castle, an amalgam of Mrs. Castle and Miss Darnley, and so on.
Given all that, it wasn't terrible, with all the plot problems
imported from the novel.  (The whole business with Linda
Marshall's watch makes a lot of assumptions of when Linda will and
will not look at her watch.  But at least they dropped the
witchcraft.)
 It was more common back then to change plots rom the book to the
movie, but it is true that this continues even now, especially
with the later Poirot and Marple adaptations for the BBC.
(Several of the later "adaptations"  add Miss marple to stories
she was never in.  To my knowledge they never did this with
Poirot, possibly because they had so many more Poirot books to
adapt--39 versus 13 for Miss Marple.  [-ecl]
 Released theatrically 05 March 1982.
 Film Credits:
<https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083908/reference>
 What others are saying:
<https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/evil_under_the_sun>

I think this is the third time you've posted a review within 2 or 3 days of me watching the movie.