Movie · Hercule Poirot (Austin Trevor) Collection

Black Coffee (1931)

• August 24, 1931
• 1h 18m

• Crime
• Thriller
• Mystery

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.

Director

Leslie S. Hiscott

Writers

H. Fowler Mear, Brock Williams, Agatha Christie

Starring

Austin Trevor, Adrianne Allen, Richard Cooper