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Agatha Christie
Novel -
Keith Hamshere
Still Photographer -
Chris Carreras
Assistant Director -
Jack Cardiff
Director of Photography -
Malcolm Cooke
Editor -
Nino Rota
Original Music Composer -
John Richards
Sound Recordist -
John Guillermin
Director
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CinemaSerf 6/4/2023 5:53:59 PM
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!!!
Maggie Smith
Miss BowersAngela Lansbury
Salome OtterbourneCelia Imrie
Maid (uncredited)David Niven
Colonel RaceJane Birkin
Louise BourgetBette Davis
Marie Van SchuylerHarry Andrews
BarnstapleJack Warden
Ludwig Bessner