This whodunit deals with Hercules Poirot (Peter Ustinov) as the Belgian sleuth man in he case of killing a rich heiress (a ravishing Lois Chiles ) aboard a luxurious Nile cruise steamer . He investigates the travelers and numerous suspects , all the support cast (George Kennedy , Bette Davis , Angela Lansbury , Jane Birkin , Olivia Hussey , John Finch..) . Who is the killer? , can he find the guilty? . Hercules is helped by a personage likeness to Dr. Watson (David Niven) . After the clues have been shown we will get a chance to give the answer with Poirot finding out about the culprit at a twisted finale with outstanding surprises . Then are taken the murders from different viewpoints of everyone aboard which it makes a little bit boring , endless and overlong .
The film is a detective story in which you are the detective . In the picture there is mystery , emotion , love , suspense and wonderful outdoors like are: the pyramids Keops , Kefren , Micerinos , sphinx Gyze , temples : Karnak , Luxor and the rout of river Nile in the cruise ship . This movie was made and released about 41 years after Agatha Christie's source novel of the same name was first published in 1937 . Nice acting by the great Peter Ustinov . Interpretation actors are first-rate , Peter Ustinov acting is similar to Albert Finney (Murder on the Orient Express). Ustinov starred various Hercules Poirot , this is first of six appearances playing Detective Poirot by him , these are the followings : Evil under the sun (Guy Hamilton), Appointment with Death (Michael Winner) and for TV with low budget as : Murder in three acts , Dead man's folly and Thirteen at dinner ; but the best considered is Death on the Nile . Though Ustinov made the character famous on the big and later small screen , he was actually the tenth actor to play Poirot in film & TV . This was also Ustinov's only outing as Poirot during the 1970s, all other five appearances were made during the 1980s .
The movie gets a lush costume design (Anthony Powell) and magnificent production designs . Colorful and glimmer cinematography by excellent cameraman Jack Cardiff (Black Narcissus , African Queen) . The location shoot in Egypt went for seven weeks of which four were spent on the steamer riverboat 'Karnak' and three filming in places such as Luxor , Cairo, Aswan and Abu Simbel . Sensitive and atmospheric music by Nino Rota (The Godfather) , he's Federico Fellini's usual musician . This film was well directed by John Guillermin . John was habitual of disaster films (The towering inferno , Skyjacked , King Kong , Kong lives) , adventures (Tarzan in India , Tarzan's greatest adventure , Sheena ) , Wartime (Bridge of Remangen , Guns at Batasi , I was Monty's double) and intrigue (Death on the Nile , Shaft in Africa , The whole truth) . The flick will appeal to suspense lovers and Agatha Christie-Poirot novels buffs .
The film is a detective story in which you are the detective . In the picture there is mystery , emotion , love , suspense and wonderful outdoors like are: the pyramids Keops , Kefren , Micerinos , sphinx Gyze , temples : Karnak , Luxor and the rout of river Nile in the cruise ship . This movie was made and released about 41 years after Agatha Christie's source novel of the same name was first published in 1937 . Nice acting by the great Peter Ustinov . Interpretation actors are first-rate , Peter Ustinov acting is similar to Albert Finney (Murder on the Orient Express). Ustinov starred various Hercules Poirot , this is first of six appearances playing Detective Poirot by him , these are the followings : Evil under the sun (Guy Hamilton), Appointment with Death (Michael Winner) and for TV with low budget as : Murder in three acts , Dead man's folly and Thirteen at dinner ; but the best considered is Death on the Nile . Though Ustinov made the character famous on the big and later small screen , he was actually the tenth actor to play Poirot in film & TV . This was also Ustinov's only outing as Poirot during the 1970s, all other five appearances were made during the 1980s .
The movie gets a lush costume design (Anthony Powell) and magnificent production designs . Colorful and glimmer cinematography by excellent cameraman Jack Cardiff (Black Narcissus , African Queen) . The location shoot in Egypt went for seven weeks of which four were spent on the steamer riverboat 'Karnak' and three filming in places such as Luxor , Cairo, Aswan and Abu Simbel . Sensitive and atmospheric music by Nino Rota (The Godfather) , he's Federico Fellini's usual musician . This film was well directed by John Guillermin . John was habitual of disaster films (The towering inferno , Skyjacked , King Kong , Kong lives) , adventures (Tarzan in India , Tarzan's greatest adventure , Sheena ) , Wartime (Bridge of Remangen , Guns at Batasi , I was Monty's double) and intrigue (Death on the Nile , Shaft in Africa , The whole truth) . The flick will appeal to suspense lovers and Agatha Christie-Poirot novels buffs .