DEATH ON THE NILE

by John Guillermin (Death on the Nile, GB, 1978, 2h20, vostf)

starring Peter Ustinov, Mia Farrow, Jane Birkin, Bette Davis, David Niven, Maggie Smith, Jon Finch, Olivia Hussey, George Kennedy, Angela Lansbury, Jack Warden

The beautiful, capricious and wealthy Linnet Ridgeway has married her best friend's fiancé. The newlyweds are spending their honeymoon on a Nile cruise boat in Egypt, surrounded by a gallery of disturbing characters. The cruise is punctuated by incidents and then a series of murders occurs. The holidaying Hercule Poirot is on board and takes charge of the case.