Death on the Nile (1978)

When murder victim leaves the restaurant to the time she is shot only about 10 minutes has passed (at the most).

However, she has removed her makeup, changed then gone to sleep.

How is this possible?

Why would you commit a crime in Egypt where you run the risk of a third-world justice system and third-world jails? But I guess the murderers were going for broke given the way things turned out.

I also loved this movie! I watched it after the Murder on the Orient Express film, and I much preferred Death on the Nile. I also greatly enjoyed the other Peter Ustinov Poirot film, Evil under the Sun. I wish he had made more Poirot films because he cracks me up. Ustinov is definitely my favorite Poirot!

We're waiting for the Buttocks Fan to present this for the seventh time.

R3 Interesting. Murder on the Orient Express (1974) is my favorite. It is the best made and best acted. However, Death on the Nile is a much more enjoyable film. Evil Under the Sun is the most entertaining for sure.

The director, a Frenchman named Yvon Jean Guillermin made such an odd variety of movies that I can't categorise them as good or bad, capable or boring.

There must be some camp sensibility in having some some of the particular hams in the cast (Maggie, Bette and Angela) but I guess that camp sensibility comes from the script by Anthony Shaffer whose playwriting career was going downhill.

[quote]I also loved this movie! I watched it after the Murder on the Orient Express film,

Sorry, I meant to say that I watched it after the Murder on the Orient Express thread. I love DL film threads. I've discovered so many great things that way. A bit of a derail, but last year I started a thread asking for recommendations for old movies and watched a whole bunch of them. Witness for the Prosecution was my favorite. Charles Laughton was so funny!

I LOVE this movie, especially the clothes

The Nile is so flat.

Was that steamer steaming southwards or northwards?

Angela Lansbury swanning around drunk and dancing with Hercules Parrot.

The look on Bette's face when the Egyptian children on the bank of the Nile moon her

"There are two things I can't abide. Heat and heathens."

R3

[quote] I wish he had made more Poirot films because he cracks me up. Ustinov is definitely my favorite Poirot!

He did make others as TV movies:

Thirteen at Dinner (1985). With Faye Dunaway. And David Suchet plays Inspector Japp.

Dead Man's Folly (1986). With Jean Stapleton as Ariadne Oliver.

Murder in Three Acts (1986). With Tony Curtis and Emma Samms.

Appointment With Death (1988). With Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, John Gielgud, Piper Laurie, and Hayley Mills.

They are OK, but nowhere near as good as "Death on the NIle" and "Evil Under The Sun".

Great film

I saw it in Germany (yes, yes I know) and at the time I’d heard about different edits for different markets, ie nudity in a European version but in underwear in the US one. I’ve never seen it since but I remember a really gruesome scene when one of the characters is shot in the head. It was replayed a couple more times as Poirot went through the various scenarios. It was very realistic, gore and all. I can watch a lot of movie violence in Hollywood blockbuster movies, usually it’s somewhat removed, but this shocked me at the time.

R14 was it Lois Chiles or Angela Lansbury?

It must’ve been Lois Chiles. Sleeping, her head was on a pillow and turned over when she was shot.

This played endlessly on HBO back in the early 80s and I watched it pretty much every time. I didn’t quite understand the feelings at the time but was in adolescent lust with Simon MacCorkindale. The Branagh version was so boring and Armie Hammer didn’t have an ounce of Mac’s sexiness

Ustinov's Poirot absolutely sucks. Great cast though.