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Death on the Nile

• 19781978
• PGPG
• ii h 20 grand

As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious prowl down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journeying? As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey? As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious prowl downwardly the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the send reaches the end of its journey?

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Remains A Lively And Succulent Favourite Treat

The screen version of Agatha Christie's Expiry On The Nile would exist ane of the definitive adaptions of the very onetime fashioned(merely still strangely popular) murder mystery genre. Afterwards twenty-vii years the movie holds up very well.

The nearly was made of the Egyption setting of the film as it was filmed generally on location and the stunning ancient sites of Egypt are filmed beautifully. Tourism in Egypt patently increased significanlty after the moving picture's release. Not surprising.

As well making the film a treat is the wonderful cast. Peter Ustinov stepped into the role of Hercule Poirot for the starting time time and despite no resemblance to Christie's descriptions of Poirot, fabricated the role his own for the next decade. Ustinov gives a stern but comic portrayal of Poirot which is balanced with the casting of Ustinov'due south close friend David Niven every bit Colonal Race, Poirot'south sidekick.

Heading the feast of suspects is the legendary Bette Davis as a grand matriarch with a sour Maggie Smith equally her paid nurse/companion. At that place bickering scenes together are a hilarious highlight of the movie. Angela Lansbury is also a scene stealer as a tipsy, uninhibited novelist who does a hilarious tango with David Niven. Mia Farrow delivers a very good dramatic performance, as the women scorned which almost steers away from the usual cardboard stereotype characterisations of Agatha Christie.

Director John Guillerman let his peachy bandage have fun with their characters partly because veteran thriller writer Anthony Shaffer wrote the screenplay. Although the murder mystery is a clever one and played out very well Shaffer injected the script with more than wit and spice than the original novel had. (The Bette Davis and Maggie Smith scenes being the best example) The soundtrack of the movie is an underrated gem with veteran composer Nino Rota producing a thou, sumptuous, inviting and mysterious soundtrack which perfectly complements the setting and the drama. Also his arrangement of the tango tune "Jealousy" is the all-time I've ever heard.

All this makes for a fun, lively old fashioned treat of a moving picture that tin can be returned to from time to time.

• gezmar
• Jul 31, 2005

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