Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 140 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board and every elegant passenger becomes a prime suspect.
- egypt
- based on novel or book
- paddleboat
- pyramid
- cruise
- nile
- sphinx
- murder
- cruise ship
- whodunit
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Peter Ustinov
Hercule Poirot
Jane Birkin
Louise Bourget
Lois Chiles
Linnet Ridgeway Doyle
Bette Davis
Marie Van Schuyler
- Mia Farrow — Jacqueline de Bellefort
- Jon Finch — James Ferguson
- Olivia Hussey — Rosalie Otterbourne
- I.S. Johar — Mr. Choudhury
- George Kennedy — Andrew Pennington
- Angela Lansbury — Salome Otterbourne
- Simon MacCorkindale — Simon Doyle
- David Niven — Colonel Race
- Maggie Smith — Miss Bowers
- Jack Warden — Ludwig Bessner
- Harry Andrews — Barnstaple
- Directed
- John Guillermin
- Written
- Anthony Shaffer
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 932 ratings
- Studio
- Mersham Productions, EMI Films
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1978 · You’re hereDeath on the Nile
Where it starts.
Evil Under the Sun
1982
Thirteen at Dinner
1985
Dead Man's Folly
1986
Murder in Three Acts
1986
Appointment with Death
1988
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
