Black Coffee (1931 film)
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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 date |
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Running time | 78 minutes |
Countries | United Kingdom France |
Language | English |
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.
This was one of three appearances that Trevor made as Poirot, having also appeared in Alibi (1931) and Lord Edgware Dies (1934). It is now considered a lost film.[1]
Cast[]
- Austin Trevor as Hercule Poirot
- Adrianne Allen as Lucia Amory
- Richard Cooper as Captain Hastings
- Elizabeth Allan as Barbara Amory
- C. V. France as Sir Claude Amory
- Philip Strange as Richard Amory
- Dino Galvani as Dr. Carelli
- Michael Shepley as Raynor
- Melville Cooper as Inspector Japp
- Marie Wright as Miss Amory
References[]
- ^ Aldridge p.20
Bibliography[]
- Aldridge, Mark. Agatha Christie on Screen. Springer, 2016.
External links[]
- Black Coffee at IMDb
Categories:
- 1931 films
- English-language films
- French films
- British films
- British crime films
- British detective films
- Films directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
- British films based on plays
- Films shot at Twickenham Film Studios
- Films based on Hercule Poirot books
- British multilingual films
- Lost British films
- 1931 lost films
- 1930s British film stubs
- British black-and-white films
- 1931 crime films
- 1931 multilingual films
- 1930s crime film stubs