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.
Hercule Poirot
Louise Bourget
Linnet Ridgeway Doyle
Marie Van Schuyler
Jacqueline de Bellefort
James Ferguson
Rosalie Otterbourne
Mr. Choudhury
Andrew Pennington
Salome Otterbourne
Simon Doyle
Colonel Race
Miss Bowers
Ludwig Bessner
Barnstaple
Rockford
Maid (uncredited)
Servant (uncredited)
Schoolteacher (uncredited)
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!!!
September 29, 1978
Hercule Poirot
Louise Bourget
Linnet Ridgeway Doyle
Marie Van Schuyler
Jacqueline de Bellefort
James Ferguson
Rosalie Otterbourne
Mr. Choudhury
Andrew Pennington
Salome Otterbourne
Simon Doyle
Colonel Race
Miss Bowers
Ludwig Bessner
Barnstaple
Rockford
Maid (uncredited)
Servant (uncredited)
Schoolteacher (uncredited)
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!!!