Post by Zone Fighter on Nov 3, 2006 10:49:12 GMT -8
Death on the Nile (1978)
Peter Ustinov - Hercule Poirot
Jane Birkin - Louise Bourget
Lois Chiles - Linnet Ridgeway Doyle
Bette Davis - Marie Van Schuyler
Mia Farrow - Jacqueline De Bellefort
Jon Finch - James Ferguson
Olivia Hussey - Rosalie Otterbourne
George Kennedy - Andrew Pennington
Angela Lansbury - Salome Otterbourne
Simon MacCorkindale - Simon Doyle
David Niven - Colonel Johnny Race
Maggie Smith - Miss Bowers
Jack Warden - Doctor Ludwig Bessner
Harry Andrews - Barnstable
I.S. Johar - Manager of The Karnak
Sam Wanamaker - Sterndale Rockford
This murder mystery based on an Agatha Christie novel is by the same team that produced "Murder on the Orient Express" but with a different actor as Hercule Poirot. Peter Ustinov is a good actor but he doesn't really look like Hercule Poirot, too tall and doesn't have the egg shapped head. Never the less, he's plays the former police inspector from Belgium very well. He'll do it in two more films.
Rich girl's best friend asks her to hire best friend's boyfriend as "estate manager" so he can afford to marry the best friend. Rich girl, instead of best friend, marrys the man. On the honeymoon cruise down the Nile the rich girl is murdered. Taking a holiday in the same steamer boat is famed detective Hercule Poirot. Also Colonel Johnny Race who has been hired to watch the victim's American lawyer by her British lawyers who believe him guilty of embesselment. An old friend of Poirot's he acts as his assistant.
The suspects:
The husband
The betrayed friend and lover
The servant who wants to marry an Egyptian man but needs money
The lawyer who may have been embesseling funds from the deceased
The romance novelist who was being sued by the deceased
The romance novelist's daughter
The widow who coveted the deceased's pearl necklace
The widow's paid companion/nurse who's father's buisiness was ruined by the deceased's father
The doctor who's clinic is losing its wealthy patients because the deceased has been going around calling him a quack
The young socialist who publicly stated that the deceased was a parasite and ought to be "bumped off"
The DVD includes a short making of video, the trailer, cast bios, an interview with Peter Ustinov in spanish (he spinks it fluently), the same interview with English subtitles, an interview with Jane Birkin in which the interviewer speaks mostly Spanish and she answers in mostly English (hard to follow).
Mrs. Van Schuyler: How would a little trip down the Nile suit you?
Miss Bowers: There is nothing I would dislike more. There are two things in the world I can't abide: it's heat and heathens.
Mrs. Van Schuyler: Good. Then we'll go. Bowers, pack.
Peter Ustinov - Hercule Poirot
Jane Birkin - Louise Bourget
Lois Chiles - Linnet Ridgeway Doyle
Bette Davis - Marie Van Schuyler
Mia Farrow - Jacqueline De Bellefort
Jon Finch - James Ferguson
Olivia Hussey - Rosalie Otterbourne
George Kennedy - Andrew Pennington
Angela Lansbury - Salome Otterbourne
Simon MacCorkindale - Simon Doyle
David Niven - Colonel Johnny Race
Maggie Smith - Miss Bowers
Jack Warden - Doctor Ludwig Bessner
Harry Andrews - Barnstable
I.S. Johar - Manager of The Karnak
Sam Wanamaker - Sterndale Rockford
This murder mystery based on an Agatha Christie novel is by the same team that produced "Murder on the Orient Express" but with a different actor as Hercule Poirot. Peter Ustinov is a good actor but he doesn't really look like Hercule Poirot, too tall and doesn't have the egg shapped head. Never the less, he's plays the former police inspector from Belgium very well. He'll do it in two more films.
Rich girl's best friend asks her to hire best friend's boyfriend as "estate manager" so he can afford to marry the best friend. Rich girl, instead of best friend, marrys the man. On the honeymoon cruise down the Nile the rich girl is murdered. Taking a holiday in the same steamer boat is famed detective Hercule Poirot. Also Colonel Johnny Race who has been hired to watch the victim's American lawyer by her British lawyers who believe him guilty of embesselment. An old friend of Poirot's he acts as his assistant.
The suspects:
The husband
The betrayed friend and lover
The servant who wants to marry an Egyptian man but needs money
The lawyer who may have been embesseling funds from the deceased
The romance novelist who was being sued by the deceased
The romance novelist's daughter
The widow who coveted the deceased's pearl necklace
The widow's paid companion/nurse who's father's buisiness was ruined by the deceased's father
The doctor who's clinic is losing its wealthy patients because the deceased has been going around calling him a quack
The young socialist who publicly stated that the deceased was a parasite and ought to be "bumped off"
The DVD includes a short making of video, the trailer, cast bios, an interview with Peter Ustinov in spanish (he spinks it fluently), the same interview with English subtitles, an interview with Jane Birkin in which the interviewer speaks mostly Spanish and she answers in mostly English (hard to follow).
Mrs. Van Schuyler: How would a little trip down the Nile suit you?
Miss Bowers: There is nothing I would dislike more. There are two things in the world I can't abide: it's heat and heathens.
Mrs. Van Schuyler: Good. Then we'll go. Bowers, pack.