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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: USTINOV,PETER
EAN: 0013131142891
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 27, 2001
Running Time: 140 minutes
Sales Rank: 6536
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: October 06, 1978
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Product Description:
Inspector Hercule Poirot must solve the murder of a beautiful young heiress.
Genre: Mystery
Rating: PG
Release Date: 8-JUN-2004
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com:
Following Albert Finney's quirky and compelling performance as Agatha Christie's Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, in 1974's Murder on the Orient Express, Peter Ustinov capably took over the role in this 1978 adaptation of Christie's river-bound whodunit. While on a pleasure cruise along the Nile with a taciturn companion (David Niven), Poirot slips into action following the murder of a much-despised heiress (Lois Chiles). There's no shortage of suspects... until, that is, they also start dying off, obfuscating the investigation by suggesting that several killers may be at work. With a disciplined screenplay by Anthony Shaffer, the film is solid enough (certainly better than its 1981 follow-up, Evil Under the Sun) and is graced immeasurably by a glittery cast including Bette Davis, Maggie Smith, Mia Farrow, Olivia Hussey, Jack Warden, and Angela Lansbury. Directed with customary efficiency by John Guillermin (King Kong, The Towering Inferno). --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  -
Wow! What better backdrop for a story than the pyramids and ancient ruins of Egypt. Set mainly along the Nile, I sometimes found the story second to the scenery! Not that the story didn't fully engage - it did! The varied characters in Death on the Nile, are quite a bunch - there is an element of humor underneath all the intrigue. We know someone is going to get it as the movie unwinds, but who? and by whom? Many seem to have their reasons...
I loved the first half of this movie. ... Read More
Rating:  -
Set in Egypt, aboard a cruise ship on the Nile. The passengers?
Mia Farrow
Bette Davis
Maggie Smith
Angela Lansbury
Jane Birkin (yes, Birkin bag by Hermes is named after her)
David Niven
Peter Ustinov
George Kennedy
Jack Warden
The music is haunting, the story is great and this movie took the Oscar for best costume design and for once I agree with the choice.
As an ensemble, I don't think you get any better than ... Read More
Rating:  -
Meant to match the success of the 1974 MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, this all-star 1978 film is much more mobile but doesn't quite carry the haunting sense of evil of the other film (thanks to that film's famously disturbing pre-credit sequence). Here the only thing that matches the majesty of the great Nino Rota score (which brilliantly evokes a Nile steamboat, the location for much of this film's action is Mia Farrow's performance as Jackie. This was probably the best role Farrow got in the Seventies, ... Read More
Rating: -
One of the greatest movies ever made with outstanding cast... Even though Peter Ustinov is not my favorite Poirot, he is wonderful...
Rating: -
For some reason, I always thought that "Death on the Nile" was a marginal Agatha Christie adaptation, one that certainly paled in comparison to the great "Murder on the Orient Express", which was produced some five years earlier. So I never bothered to see it. Well, I finally caught up with the movie on DVD, and, boy, was I wrong. "Death on the Nile" is a really good movie.
You get so much here: exotic scenery; a great set where most of the story takes place (an early 20th century steamer); ... Read More
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