Death on the Nile is a 1978 British mystery film based on Agatha Christie’s 1937 novel of the same name, directed by John Guillermin and adapted by Anthony Shaffer. The film features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, played by Peter Ustinov for the first time, plus an all-star supporting cast including Maggie Smith, Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, David Niven, George Kennedy and Jack Warden. It is a sequelfollow up to the 1974 film Murder On The Orient Express.
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Death on the Nile is a 1978 British mystery film based on Agatha Christie’s 1937 novel of the same name, directed by John Guillermin and adapted by Anthony Shaffer. The film features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, played by Peter Ustinov for the first time, plus an all-star supporting cast including Maggie Smith, Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, David Niven, George Kennedy and Jack Warden. It is a sequelfollow up to the 1974 film Murder On The Orient Express. It takes place in Egypt in 1937, mostly on a period paddle steamer on the River Nile. Many of the cultural highlights of Egypt are also featured in the film, such as the Great Pyramids, the Sphinx, and temples at Abu Simbel and Karnak, even though the locations are not in sequence. The boat trip starts in Aswan, follows to Karnak and then to Abu SimBel which is upstream from Aswan. It ends in Cairo, where the crew pulls a small bundle from the Nile. The missing pistol is wrapped in Mrs. van Schuyler’s stole, which has a small bullet hole. There is also a blood-stained handkerchief, and a marble ashtray used as a weight.
The crew pulls the small bundle and a bullet hole is found on the body of Linnet Ridgeway, a wealthy heiress who was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head. She had been shot by her fiancé, Simon Doyle, with his accomplice, Jackie de Bellefort, as her accomplice. The ship’s captain, Colonel Race, is also killed in the incident. The passengers had motives to kill Linnet, including a kleptomania sufferer and a romance novelist who was being sued for libel for a similarity between Linnet and one of her characters. The captain and Colonel Race are killed by Linnet’s fiancé Simon Doyle in the aftermath of their honeymoon in Egypt, and Jackie is also shot in the head by Simon. The murder is solved when Simon reveals that he shot himself in the leg, using his gun as an accomplice to draw attention to himself and drawing attention to his wife’s head in the cabin. Jackie is found guilty of the murder, but she has a solid alibi as Miss Bowers sedated her with morphia and stayed with her all night.
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