Overview - Black Coffee

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: 0.4294

  

• Name: Adrianne Allen

  Character: Lucia Amory

  Popularity: 0.5512

  

• Name: Richard Cooper

  Character: Capt. Hastings

  Popularity: 0.3936

  

• Name: Elizabeth Allan

  Character: Barbara Amory

  Popularity: 0.9666

  

• Name: C. V. France

  Character: Sir Claude Amory

  Popularity: 0.6336

  

• Name: Philip Strange

  Character: Richard Amory

  Popularity: 0.1866

  

• Name: Dino Galvani

  Character: Dr. Carelli

  Popularity: 0.2702

  

• Name: Michael Shepley

  Character: Raynor

  Popularity: 0.4133