Watch: Death on the Nile 1978 123movies, Full Movie Online – Based on the Dame Agatha Christie novel, our favorite Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot (Sir Peter Ustinov), is on a cruise up the Nile. He is surrounded by an interesting assortment of characters, including a wealthy heiress and her husband, on their honeymoon. It appears that everyone hates the heiress..
Plot: As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey?
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A Top Notch Bunch Of Pros
Jack Cardiff was the director of photography, Anthony Powell, the costume designer, Nino Rota composed the score, Anthony Shaffer signed the screenplay and the list goes on and on and I haven’t even mention the cast yet. Agatha Christie’s novels have a structure that is a sort of cardinal rule. Murders, a set of suspects, all of them with a motive for the killing and then the unmasking of the killer or killers. Anthony Shaffer, the author of “Sleuth” milks it for all its worth. Snippets of wit trying not to obstruct the implausible plot. Tough gig. Dressed in a fantastic Nino Rota score, Jack Cardiff does his marvelous thing and Anthony Powell envelopes the stars in costumes that are not only stunning but character revealing in the most entertaining way. Peter Ustinov’s Poirot is great fun and the cast moves through the carefully plotted story with disarming precision. Mia Farrow is the only one who plays it for real. Her jealousy is so believable that in a way we’re guided by her pain and dismiss the obvious. Bette Davis does a Bette Davis impersonation for our benefit, I guess, and she gets away with it. Maggie Smith, Davis’s long suffering lady in waiting, is always fun to watch and I imagine she had a lot of fun herself pushing around Bette Davis. My favorite? Angela Lansbury’s Salome Ottobourne. Her alcoholic pulp fiction writer is a complex, compassionate, realistic caricature. David Niven,Jack Warden, Jon Finch, Olivia Houssey, Lois Chiles, Jane Birkin etc complete the who’s who of this whodunit. I haven’t mention the director: John Guillermin, from “The Towering Inferno” fame.
Still Great
Peter Ustinov is my favorite Hercule Poirot and Death on the Nile is a jewel of the who dunnit crime genre – fantastic cast, fantastic pictures and settings and a top notch production make this work a great pleasure to watch. Last but not least, the story of Death on the Nile is proof, that Agathe Christie is a master of crime stories, her plots, twists and characters of her stories are (still) marvelous. Classic!
Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 20 min (140 min)
Budget 7920000
Revenue 14560084
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director John Guillermin
Writer Anthony Shaffer, Agatha Christie
Actors Peter Ustinov, Mia Farrow, Simon MacCorkindale
Country United Kingdom
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 5 wins & 6 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Cameras and Lenses (uncredited)
Laboratory Technicolor, London, UK (colour)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm