![]() ![]() I don’t want to see Poirot wrestling with a crocodile. ![]() Just please tone down some of the explosive theatrics, please. ![]() Considering Branagh’s taste for sumptuous backdrops and big set pieces, Nile seems like a good way to go: not only do you have a luxury steamship to play with, but the potential to visit the Pyramids and antiquities of Egypt in flashbacks and new scenes. I’m a big fan of Death on the Nile in all of its incarnations-book, 1978 movie that stars Peter Ustinov as Poirot (and includes names like Angela Lansbury, Mia Farrow, and Maggie Smith), and the 2004 ITV Poirot journey down the Nile with David Suchet (and Emily Blunt as Linnet!). (20th Century Studios) Little of the production’s reported. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: “I’d like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.” Yet in this exotic setting nothing was ever quite what it seemed. Kenneth Branagh brandishes a prodigious mustache as Hercule Poirot in his adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile. A girl who had everything…until she lost her life. Otterbourne, whose secret dealings with the ship’s crew put her in the wrong place at the wrong time. The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. As Poirot gets closer to the truth, two more passengers lose their lives: Louise Bourget, Linnet’s maid, who appears to have tried to blackmail the killer and Mrs. ![]()
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