Black Coffee (1931)
Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot, it stars Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings. A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.
- Date of release
- 1931-08-24
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Genres
- Crime, Thriller, Mystery
- Director
- Leslie S. Hiscott
- Collection
- Hercule Poirot (Austin Trevor) Collection
Casting
- Austin Trevor — Hercule Poirot
- Adrianne Allen — Lucia Amory
- Richard Cooper — Capt. Hastings
- Elizabeth Allan — Barbara Amory
- C. V. France — Sir Claude Amory
- Philip Strange — Richard Amory
- Dino Galvani — Dr. Carelli
- Michael Shepley — Raynor
- Melville Cooper — Insp. Japp
- Marie Wright — Miss Amory
- Leila Page — (uncredited)
Interesting facts
- Based on: Black Coffee
Black Coffee is a lost 1931 British "quota quickie" film directed by Leslie Hiscott and starring Austin Trevor, Adrianne Allen and Elizabeth Allan. It was written by Brock Williams and H. Fowler Mear based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie. It was produced by Julius Hagen at Twickenham Film Studios.
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