Anthony Shaffer
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Anthony Joshua Shaffer (15 May 1926 – 6 November 2001) was an English barrister, advertising executive, novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anthony Shaffer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full... Read full bio →
Appointment with Death
Emily Boynton, stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from her dominating influence. She takes herself, the children and her daughter-in-law on holiday to Europe and the Holy Land. At a dig, Emily is found dead and Hercule Poirot investigates.
Evil Under the Sun
Death on the Nile
The film features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot played by Peter Ustinov. It takes place in Egypt, mostly on the Nile River. Many of the cultural highlights of Egypt are also featured in the film, such as the Great Pyramids, the Sphinx, and temples at Abu Simbal and Karnak.
Absolution
At a boarding school in England, students Benjie Stanfield and Arthur Dyson endeavor to drive their strict Roman Catholic priest Father Goddard mad with their confessed sins.
The Wicker Man
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
Sleuth
Sleuth is a thriller from director Joseph L. Mankiewicz starring Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier.
Frenzy
Frenzy is the last film from Hitchcock and at the same time the first film that brought his emigration to the USA back to Great Britain.
Mr. Forbush and the Penguins
A womanizing biologist studies life in a colony of penguins.