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Originally posted by Gerald Lovell
Death on the Nile (1978). For me, this is probably the best of the big screen Poirot outings with Peter Ustinov, before he got silly in the role, a much more straight forward and less mannered and less strangulated accented Hercule than Albert Finney. It's another star-studded enclosed setting murder mystery, though this time a travel log as much as a murder mystery, though you don't need to be Poirot to work out who's responsible. David Niven, Bette Davis, Angela Lansbury, Mia Farrow, Lois Chiles, Maggie Smith and George Kennedy are among the star-studdeders and John Guillermin's expert direction keeps the thing, a trifle long, all sailing along entertainingly well.
I much prefer it to Orient Express, which is let down by Finney's odd portrayal.
This does have dodgy accents though from Jack Warden and Farrow's weird Audrey Hepburn-ish British aristocrat shtick.
Originally posted by Gerald Lovell
Death on the Nile (1978). For me, this is probably the best of the big screen Poirot outings with Peter Ustinov, before he got silly in the role, a much more straight forward and less mannered and less strangulated accented Hercule than Albert Finney. It's another star-studded enclosed setting murder mystery, though this time a travel log as much as a murder mystery, though you don't need to be Poirot to work out who's responsible. David Niven, Bette Davis, Angela Lansbury, Mia Farrow, Lois Chiles, Maggie Smith and George Kennedy are among the star-studdeders and John Guillermin's expert direction keeps the thing, a trifle long, all sailing along entertainingly well.
I much prefer it to Orient Express, which is let down by Finney's odd portrayal.
This does have dodgy accents though from Jack Warden and Farrow's weird Audrey Hepburn-ish British aristocrat shtick.
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