Death on the Nile

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Summary: One of the Classics
Review: This is a sheer classic Christie masterpiece.You will love it equally because of all ths stars. There is a cast of Peter Ustinov,Bette Davis,Mia Farrow,Jane Birkin,Angela Lansbury,David Niven, Maggie Smith,George Kennedy,Olivia Hussey,and Simon MacCorkindale.I've watched it more times than I can count and I still love watching it.You wont be disappointed!

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Summary: A Must-See Thriller
Review: This movie boasts all charms of "Muder on the Orient Express": mystery, intrigue, suspense, and an all-star cast. They include Angela Lansbury, Maggie Smith, Mia Farrow, and Lois Chiles (from the Bond film "Moonraker"). Unfrotunatly, "Murder on the Orient Express" is better, but lacks much of a body count and so many people may not appreciate it. This has a higher body count, so most people should love it (as I did).

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Summary: Stunning and Unforgotten
Review: This was one of the best movies you could ever see! I would rate it 5 stars even though I haven't seen the ending. I have read the book twice and am always shocked and wide eyed when I read the ending, like And Then There Were None. The book/movie is about Linnet Ridgeway, the beautiful brunette who has simply everything; a big house, suitors, money, good looks, friends, and enemies. Then her hot-blooded friend Jackie, who is bankrupt, asks Linnet to give her handsome, broke fiance a job. Linnet agrees but she falls in love with Simon Doyle and they get married and take a little trip on the Nile. They are followed by Bette Davis, Angela Lansbury, George Kennedy, David Niven, Peter Ustinov,Maggie Smith, and suprise, suprise Jackie. Jackie follows them like a bloodhound and one evening while she is tipsy, shoots Simon in the leg while Linnet is in her room. That night Linnet is murdered with the small pistol Jackie dropped under the sofa in the saloon and everyone forgot about. The only two people with an alibi are Simon with his broken leg and Jackie with her dose of morphine and nurse Maggie Smith. Everyone else had the motive and the opportunity, even her American lawyer, George Kennedy, and Linnet's maid. Peter Usinov (M. Poirot) and David Niven (Clnl Race) can't solve the mystery before the maid's throught is cut and the witness (sex and drinking addict author played by Angela Lansbury who plays her role with absoloute perfection) to the second murder is stopped dead in her revealing of the murderer with the lawyer's Colt. I think it has a good ending. Maybe not as good as the book. Read the book and see the movie. You won't ever forget it.

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Summary: Best of the Christie adaptations
Review: To my mind, Peter Ustinov is Hercule Poirot. He may not bear much resemblence to the character famed mystery writer Agatha Christie described him in the many novels in which he appeared, but Ustinov made the role his own in a series of movies in the late 1970s through to the late 1980s - of which DEATH ON THE NILE is the first.
Brought to the screen by the same team who entertained four years earlier with the MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS production that headlined Albert Finney as Belgium's most famous literary detective among a high calibver all-star cast, the 1978 production of "Death on the Nile" also presented an impressive group of veteran actors (such as David Niven) to ypung and upcoming stars such as actress Lois Chiles (who would go on a year later to appear in the blockbuster MOONRAKER).
Chiles plays the victim in this riddle of a mystery, a spoilt heiress who seems to have the misfortune of having taken a cruise with a boatload of people the majority of whom all have a reason to kill her. It's up to Poirot to navigate his way through all the red herrings and clues and come up with a conclusion that is just as shocking and ingenious as any that has ever been brought to the screen.
This is my favorite of all the Christie adaptations, the entire cast is uniformly excellent, the direction solid and the locations awe inspiring.
Also of note is the inclusion of a MAKING OF... vintage featurette made to coincide with the movle's release as well as an interview with Ustinov.
All in all, well worth a look by mystery fans and a definite purchase by Christie devotees.

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Summary: Quite gripping.
Review: Well, in the movie Murder on the Orient Express the characters seemed a bit out of focus. Unlike that movie, Death on the nile offers many perspectives, and a good hard core story. Though, I do prefer Christie's books this movie made a visual appeal! For mystery diggers, I reccomend this as a personal, or as a family video.

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Summary: Only for Christie fans
Review: When heiress Lynette Doyle (Lois Chiles) is murdered during a Nile cruise, it is up to super-sleuth Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov) to seperate the culprit from the many suspects who had reason to want her dead. I have never been a fan of the "cozy mystery" sub-genre that was Agatha Christie's forte, in which suspects are bumped off at regular intervals until the detective gathers everyone in the drawing room to reveal his solution of the crime. Therefore, I am not the proper audience for this film. The cast is certainly impressive and the production is smooth. I enjoyed the beginning of the film quite a bit; it takes on the air of a smart, elegant comedy of manners as the foibles and interrelationships of the various characters are introduced. However, I began losing interest after the murder of the heiress, as the mystery aspects of the story asserted themselves, grinding formulaicly to an implausible conclusion.