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Agatha Christie
Novel -
Chris Carreras
Assistant Director -
Wayne Sleep
Choreographer -
Anthony Shaffer
Screenplay -
Peter Murton
Production Design -
W.C. 'Chunky' Huse
Grip -
John Guillermin
Director -
Ramon Gow
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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 BowersCelia Imrie
Maid (uncredited)Angela Lansbury
Salome OtterbournePeter Ustinov
Hercule PoirotJack Warden
Ludwig BessnerGeorge Kennedy
Andrew PenningtonMia Farrow
Jacqueline de BellefortSimon MacCorkindale
Simon Doyle