Death on the Nile
- Episode aired Apr 12, 2004
- TV-14
- 1h 37m
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A wealthy American heiress honeymooning on a Nile cruise ship is stalked by a former friend, whose boyfriend she had stolen before making him her new husband.A wealthy American heiress honeymooning on a Nile cruise ship is stalked by a former friend, whose boyfriend she had stolen before making him her new husband.A wealthy American heiress honeymooning on a Nile cruise ship is stalked by a former friend, whose boyfriend she had stolen before making him her new husband.
Emma Griffiths Malin
- Jacqueline De Bellefort
- (as Emma Malin)
Frances de la Tour
- Salome Otterbourne
- (as Frances De La Tour)
George Antoni
- Cruise Manager
- (as George Yiasoumi)
Félicité Du Jeu
- Louise Bourget
- (as Felicite Du Jeu)
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Did you know
- TriviaIn the scene at Denderah where Poirot and the others are entering the temple and the custodian is looking over the parapet, on the stones is carved a graffiti by Charles Irby and James Mangles, two Royal navy captains who were traveling in Egypt after the Napoleonic War. They helped Giovanni Battista Belzoni clear the entrance to the temple of Abu Simbel in 1817. This is shown in Egypt (2005).
- GoofsWhen the head of a stone statue falls off the side of the temple and almost kills Linnet, it bounces when it hits the ground. There's no way something made of solid stone would bounce. It should either stay completely still or crumble when it hits the ground, but the visible bounce reveals that it's not made of stone but of something much lighter, like foam.
- Quotes
Hercule Poirot: Has life been unfair to you mademoiselle?
Rosalie Otterbourne: You've met my mother.
- ConnectionsReferences Psycho (1960)
- SoundtracksMad About the Boy
(uncredited)
Written by Noël Coward
Performed by Gertrude Lawrence
[Linnet and Joanna gossip about Jackie]
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Very well done adaptation of a complicated and superb book, but I prefer the Peter Ustinov film only marginally
The book Death on the Nile is long and complicated, but superb all the same, and one of my favourite Christies. The Peter Ustinov film is one of the better outings of his as while it wasn't completely faithful, it boasted a superb cast and it was sumptuous to look at. This adaptation for me is slightly inferior to the Ustinov film, and the only one of two to make me feel that way (the other is Evil Under the Sun). Starting with the pros first, it is breathtaking to look at. The Egyptian scenery and the costume and set designs were top draw, the script captured the style of the book perfectly and the music was excellent. And the acting was great, David Suchet is impeccable as Poirot, and Emma Malin is a superb Jackie, gorgeous and expressive. Frances DeLa Tour gives a first rate performance as Salome Otterborne, the same character that Angela Lansbury overplayed so deliciously in the 1978 film. In fact the only weak performance came from Emily Blunt as Linnette, she looked the part (more than Lois Chiles I'd say) but she wasn't quite bitchy enough. As a matter of fact, neither Blunt or Chiles quite nailed Linnette quite right. And there are slight improvements over the 1978 film too, one is that the pacing is faster, the other is that it is more faithful to the book, the murders are closer to the ones in the book and the ending done in Romeo and Juliet style is closer too. However, there are one or two flaws, namely the direction from Andy Wilson, it wasn't absolutely abysmal, but it wasn't quite as efficient or as suspenseful as it could've been. Also there were times where I felt that I had been told too much too early, and this was a similar problem I had with Murder on the Links. All in all, this is a very good episode. 7.5/10 Bethany Cox
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