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Checkout FunnyFact.com | SuperHeroBooks - Death on the Nile
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List Price: $9.98
Our Price: $4.60
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Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Starring: Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Lois Chiles, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow
Directed By: John Guillermin
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: USTINOV,PETER
EAN: 0013131142891
Format: Anamorphic
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2001-02-27
Running Time: 140
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: 1978-10-06
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Summary: Death on the Nile - the movie
Comment: Movie came quickly and was as good as advertised. Would order from this seller again.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Riddle of the Sphynx
Comment: Wow! What better backdrop for a story than the pyramids and ancient ruins of Egypt. Set mainly along the Nile, I sometimes found the story second to the scenery! Not that the story didn't fully engage - it did! The varied characters in Death on the Nile, are quite a bunch - there is an element of humor underneath all the intrigue. We know someone is going to get it as the movie unwinds, but who? and by whom? Many seem to have their reasons...
I loved the first half of this movie. It starts off with the craziest scenario. Niece wants fiance to get a managerial position at her very rich auntie's estate. She asks auntie and auntie says, well, let's meet him. Did I mention that besides being filthy rich, auntie is also quite young and attractive? When auntie meets fiance, sparks suddenly fly and then -
Cut to Egypt. Suddenly riding horses amongst the pyramids - rich auntie, and niece's fiance - they're married! And trailing around in their dust is the poor niece, bent on making a nuissance of herself during the honeymoon that should have been hers! There's a certain humour. And the scenery of the Nile, the ancient ruins, the Sphynx - it's stunning, and yet very much a part of the story.
For the second half of the movie though, I started to find myself less engaged. It became more of what I think of when I think of a cliche mystery. Less shots of Egypt. Less humorous situations. More tedious regurgitation of the murder as the Ustinov tries to solve the case.
The second half I give 3 stars as a noticeable lull seems to set in with the latter part of the cruise. It becomes more "in the head", and I wasn't terribly convinced when the murder was finally solved. A bit far-fetched.. While I don't mind far-fetched if it entertains simultaneously, I was becoming less and less entertained as the movie wound it's way toward the conclusion. Not terrible. Just not what the first half of the movie was - gorgeous, clever, witty and interesting. One reason for this may have been that for the second half of the movie less attention is paid to the myriad of interesting characters interacting with each other, and all things focus on Ustinov, who's rather stuffy and dry most of the time, although he's not awful. Just not as interesting as other characters which get more attention in the better half of this movie - the first. Fortunately, the story ends on a powerful note.
This movie is worth seeing. There are some jaw-droppingly beautiful scenes, which, at the same time, tie in so perfectly with the story. The tying together of such a dramatic backdrop (Egypt) with the riviting story this begins as, and the satisfactory final scenes, make this movie more than well-worth seeing.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Solid Cast and Great Locations
Comment: Set in Egypt, aboard a cruise ship on the Nile. The passengers?
Mia Farrow
Bette Davis
Maggie Smith
Angela Lansbury
Jane Birkin (yes, Birkin bag by Hermes is named after her)
David Niven
Peter Ustinov
George Kennedy
Jack Warden
The music is haunting, the story is great and this movie took the Oscar for best costume design and for once I agree with the choice.
As an ensemble, I don't think you get any better than this and Dame Agatha writes mysteries like no one else. This will definitely keep you guessing.
Favorite Line "Do not let evil into your heart madamoisielle, it will make a home there."
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Summary: "This certainly takes the camel's hump, oh yes, and no mistake!"
Comment: Meant to match the success of the 1974 MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, this all-star 1978 film is much more mobile but doesn't quite carry the haunting sense of evil of the other film (thanks to that film's famously disturbing pre-credit sequence). Here the only thing that matches the majesty of the great Nino Rota score (which brilliantly evokes a Nile steamboat, the location for much of this film's action is Mia Farrow's performance as Jackie. This was probably the best role Farrow got in the Seventies, and while it allows her to do her specialty in evoking hysteria it also allows her the rare opportunity to play a really intelligent character. Her scenes menacing her ex-lover and best friend (who have married one another behind her back) by turning up at Egyptian tourist sites and reciting statistics about the sites to them are memorably strange. Peter Ustinov makes a fine Poirot, and Angela Lansbury is a lot of fun as a Marie Corelli-like hack novelist, and Simon MacCorkindale is suitably dreamy as Farrow's ex-lover, but no one else is up to the scale the production seems to demand. Several actors seem terribly underused (particular Olivia Hussey and Maggie Smith), and Bette Davis as a Washington grande dame looks like a walking mummy (which should be suitable to the theme but instead is rather creepy). Very few of the characters have plausible motives for murder, so the time spent discussing whether or not they committed the central crime seems pretty tedious.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great!
Comment: One of the greatest movies ever made with outstanding cast... Even though Peter Ustinov is not my favorite Poirot, he is wonderful...
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Editorial Reviews:
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Inspector Hercule Poirot must solve the murder of a beautiful young heiress.
Genre: Mystery
Rating: PG
Release Date: 8-JUN-2004
Media Type: DVD
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