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Release Date: 27 February, 2001 Retail Price: $9.98 OUR Price: $9.98 You SAVE: $0.00! Cast: Complete Cast (17 total) |
Death on the Nile Reviews
Good,but not the best
Peter Ustinov's Poirot,while entertaining,cannot hold a candle to the portrayal by David Suchet..The same might be said with respect to the two versions of this film.Lavish and star-studded,with academy award winners aplenty(david Niven,Bette Davis,George Kennedy to name a few)this version re-arranges the original Christie story somewhat,goes for humour rather than drama,and leaves out quite a bit that is important...For example;WHY do the two lovers want to kill the heiress anyway?In the Ustinov version there are no answers..The Mia Farrow charecter brings her boyfriend to rich girlfriend Lynette Ridgeway,the latter seems to seduce him and marry him and the Mia Farrow charecter SEEMS to react in a jealous rage,UNTIL,at the end it is dicovered that the two had planned the whole thing from the start with an eye towards killing the heiress...Still,the WHY is elusive...Not so in the superior David Suchet version(not star-studded at all,unless one counts TV actor David Soul in the role played here by George Kennedy),where the WHY is a lynchpin to the telling of the whole tale..
The movie stars in this version act,while the actors in the David Suchet version BECOME the charecters...There IS a difference,you know...
Sure,this gaudy epic glitters,but so does the David Suchet version,the difference being that in this version the glitter is mainly flash ,with little substance...Still,if one likes watching a bunch of movie stars this is the version to buy...but if one wants a faithful version of the story,a version one can sink one's teeth into,then skip this film and buy the version that stars David Suchet,THE definitive Hercule Poirot !
best hercule poirot
if you only have time for one ustinov poirot movie this is the one, great story, amazing scenery, a cast including david niven, angela lansbury, mia farrow, bette davis, among a stellar group ..really good.
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