Black Coffee

Name: Black Coffee
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 1931
Duration: 78 min
Cast: Austin Trevor, Adrianne Allen, Richard Cooper, Elizabeth Allan, C. V. France

1931

1h 18min

Crime

Mystery

Thriller

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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.