Black Coffee

Black Coffee

78 mins | Crime, Thriller, Mystery | Dec. 11, 1931

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.

Black Coffee

78 mins | Crime, Thriller, Mystery | Dec. 11, 1931

Black Coffee
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.
Producers Julius Hagen Productions, Les Établissements Jacques Haïk
Original title Black Coffee
Directors Leslie S. Hiscott
Writers Brock Williams, H. Fowler Mear, Agatha Christie

Cast

Austin Trevor

as Hercule Poirot

Adrianne Allen

as Lucia Amory

Richard Cooper

as Capt. Hastings

Elizabeth Allan

as Barbara Amory

C. V. France

as Sir Claude Amory

Philip Strange

as Richard Amory

Dino Galvani

as Dr. Carelli

Michael Shepley

as Raynor

Melville Cooper

as Insp. Japp

Marie Wright

as Miss Amory

Leila Page

as (uncredited)