Overview - Black Coffee
Date of release
Budget
Budget data not disclosed
Revenue
Revenue data not disclosed
Spoken Languages
- English
Production companies
Name: Les Établissements Jacques Haïk
Production country
Name: Julius Hagen Productions
Production country
Overview
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.
Cast
Name: Austin Trevor
Character: Hercule Poirot
Popularity: 1.2501
Name: Adrianne Allen
Character: Lucia Amory
Popularity: 0.8464
Name: Richard Cooper
Character: Capt. Hastings
Popularity: 0.8649
Name: Elizabeth Allan
Character: Barbara Amory
Popularity: 0.758
Name: C. V. France
Character: Sir Claude Amory
Popularity: 0.6123
Name: Philip Strange
Character: Richard Amory
Popularity: 0.6237
Name: Dino Galvani
Character: Dr. Carelli
Popularity: 0.588
Name: Michael Shepley
Character: Raynor
Popularity: 0.9872
