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

Creator

Agatha Christie

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: The ABC Murders (2009)

See also

Category

Films 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)