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Death on the Nile

Death on the Nile

  • Status: Released
  • 29-09-1978
  • Runtime: 140 min
  • Score: 7.2
  • Vote count: 807

As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board and every elegant passenger becomes a prime suspect.

Peter Ustinov

Hercule Poirot

Jane Birkin

Louise Bourget

Lois Chiles

Linnet Ridgeway Doyle

Bette Davis

Marie Van Schuyler

Mia Farrow

Jacqueline de Bellefort

Jon Finch

James Ferguson

Olivia Hussey

Rosalie Otterbourne

I.S. Johar

Mr. Choudhury

George Kennedy

Andrew Pennington

Angela Lansbury

Salome Otterbourne

Simon MacCorkindale

Simon Doyle

David Niven

Colonel Race

Maggie Smith

Miss Bowers

Jack Warden

Ludwig Bessner

Harry Andrews

Barnstaple

Sam Wanamaker

Rockford

Celia Imrie

Maid (uncredited)

Saeed Jaffrey

Servant (uncredited)

Barbara Hicks

Schoolteacher (uncredited)

François Guillaume

Doublure Lumière (uncredited)

Reg Lye

Workman (uncredited)

Andrew Manson

Egyptian (uncredited)

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This a corker of a whodunnit - and what chance you could ever get a cast like this together again without it being a computer generated festival of egos? Mia Farrow, Jane Birkin, a scene-stealing Angela Lansbury, George Kennedy, Maggie Smith and an incomparable Bette Davis are all likely suspects as a fabulously wealthy Lois Chiles is bumped off in her cabin aboard a luxury cruise down the Nile. Luckily, though - for us, and them - Peter Ustinov and David Niven are on hand to resolve this mysterious crime. As the films develops you realise just how odious and horrid the murdered woman was - I found that I wanted to kill her too!! Great fun with a superb Nina Rota score that really makes this a diamond of a film. I read, with trepidation, that Sir Kenneth Branagh is to remake this in 2020 - hmmm!!!