Black Coffee (1931 film)

Black Coffee
Directed by	Leslie S. Hiscott
Written by	Agatha Christie H. Fowler Mear Brock Williams
Starring	Austin Trevor Adrianne Allen Richard Cooper Elizabeth Allan
Cinematography	Sydney Blythe
Production company	Twickenham Film Studios
Distributed by	Woolf & Freedman Film Service
Release dates	14 July 1931
Running time	78 minutes
Country	United Kingdom France
Language	English

Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott, and based on the play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot. It starred Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings.

This was one of three appearances that Trevor made as Poirot, having also appeared in Alibi (1931) and Lord Edgware Dies (1934).

Cast

Austin Trevor - Hercule Poirot
Adrianne Allen - Lucia Amory
Richard Cooper - Captain Hastings
Elizabeth Allan - Barbara Amory
C.V. France - Sir Claude Amory
Philip Strange - Richard Amory
Dino Galvani - Dr. Carelli
Michael Shepley - Raynor
Melville Cooper - Inspector Japp
Marie Wright - Miss Amory

References

External links

Black Coffee at the Internet Movie Database

Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot

Characters

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) Murder in Mesopotamia (1936) Cards on the Table (1936) Dumb Witness (1937) Death on the Nile (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)

Tony Randall	The Alphabet Murders (1965)

Albert Finney	Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

Peter Ustinov	Death on the Nile (1978) Evil Under the Sun (1982) Appointment with Death (1988)

Plays

Alibi (1928)
Black Coffee (1930)
Peril at End House (1932)
Wasp's Nest (1937)
The Yellow Iris (1937, radio)

Television
adaptations

Peter Ustinov	Thirteen at Dinner (1985) Dead Man's Folly (1986) Murder in Three Acts (1986)

Ian Holm	Murder by the Book (1986)

David Suchet	Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989–2013) Episodes

Alfred Molina	Murder on the Orient Express (2001)

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)