Death on the Nile
A murderer strikes on board the luxury Nile steamer Karnak – and Hercule Poirot faces his most baffling case.
Country
Production
Genre
Budget
$7 920 000
Box office
$7 500 000
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
John Brabourne, Richard Goodwin
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Peter Murton
Audition
Dyson Lovell
Editing
Malcolm Cooke
Whole Team (41)
Whole Team (41)
Short description
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?
What's left behind the scenes
- A film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Agatha Christie, published in 1937.
- James Ferguson (John Finch) in the scene with Rosalind Otterbourne (Olivia Hassie) in the sphinx alley, holds a book in Russian titled "The Technology of Film Production" (author B. Konoplev, year of publication 1956).
- The film featured no fewer than five actors who would later become Academy Award winners: Peter Ustinov (1960 and 1964), George Kennedy (1967), Bette Davis (1935 and 1938), Maggie Smith (1969 and 1978), and David Niven (1958).
- The film was released in Soviet cinemas under the title “Fatal Voyage” in 1981.
- Angela Lansbury played the role of writer Salomea Otterbourne. Later, the same actress would become famous for playing another writer – Jessica Fletcher. Lansbury also starred in the Agatha Christie adaptation "The Mirror Cracked," where she played Miss Marple herself.
- Due to the hot climate, Albert Finney refused the role of Poirot, as he had problems in the previous film, "Murder on the Orient Express," with the long makeup process, which was very hot under the artificial lighting. For the same reason, Poirot, who was always a brunette in Agatha Christie's works, was portrayed by Peter Ustinov as a blond with wheat-colored mustaches – otherwise, the actor risked heatstroke.
- Mr. Pennington, as in the novel, says the phrase, "I always take a gun with me abroad." Prior to the Second World War, the circulation of personal firearms within the British Empire was regulated relatively leniently, and carrying one like this was quite possible.
- Due to the limited space on the paddle steamer, the actresses shared a single dressing room.
- According to the actors and crew members themselves, the filming conditions were simply atrocious. The film was indeed shot on the Nile, in Egypt and Sudan, on the real paddle steamer “Memnon,” one of the few surviving Nile cruisers of that era. Practically, filming took place “in one take” between 4 and 6 a.m.; by noon, when the temperature reached 54 degrees Celsius, it was sometimes halted for 6-8 hours.
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