From: morrisj@epsilon3.comcon   
      
   On 11/24/2024 9:20 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:   
   > EVIL UNDER THE SUN (1982): There were a lot of changes in this   
   > version, and not just dropping characters, etc., to make it fit in   
   > the time slot.   
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   > The setting was moved from England to the Balkans, the Jolly Roger   
   > is now a yacht rather than a hotel, the hotel manager is Daphne   
   > Castle, an amalgam of Mrs. Castle and Miss Darnley, and so on.   
   > Given all that, it wasn't terrible, with all the plot problems   
   > imported from the novel.  (The whole business with Linda   
   > Marshall's watch makes a lot of assumptions of when Linda will and   
   > will not look at her watch.  But at least they dropped the   
   > witchcraft.)   
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   > It was more common back then to change plots rom the book to the   
   > movie, but it is true that this continues even now, especially   
   > with the later Poirot and Marple adaptations for the BBC.   
   > (Several of the later "adaptations"  add Miss marple to stories   
   > she was never in.  To my knowledge they never did this with   
   > Poirot, possibly because they had so many more Poirot books to   
   > adapt--39 versus 13 for Miss Marple.  [-ecl]   
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   > Released theatrically 05 March 1982.   
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   > What others are saying:   
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   I think this is the third time you've posted a review within 2 or 3 days   
   of me watching the movie.   
      
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