Assassinio sul Nilo

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After filming had completed, it was on the flight back to New York that Lois Chiles found herself fo [...]	D
Producer John Brabourne said no telephones were available while on-location in Egypt. They had to co [...]	D
Sam Wanamaker's daughter ZoÃ« Wanamaker would appear in six episodes of the TV series Poirot (1989 [...]	D
The location shoot in Egypt went for seven weeks, of which four were spent on the steamer riverboat [...]	D
In the saloon, Jacqueline recites lines from "The Sons of the Suburbs" by Rudyard Kipling.	D
The only working collaboration of Peter Ustinov and Angela Lansbury despite the two having been in-l [...]	D
Under orders from the producers, Director John Guillermin and the cast and crew were barred from see [...]	D
Peter Ustinov, Simon MacCorkindale, and Olivia Husseyhad all appeared in GesÃ¹ di Nazareth (1977) [...]	D
The scenes set at Linnet Ridgeway's domicile were shot at Compton Wynyates, a Warwickhire country es [...]	D
Bette Davis, Maggie Smith, and Angela Lansbury all shared a small steamboat cabin as a dressing room [...]	D
Bette Davis and George Kennedy had previously appeared together in a murder mystery film of a vastly [...]	D
MI5 agent Colonel Race is played by David Niven, who was author and British MI5 agent Ian Fleming's [...]	D
John Guillermin banned visitors from the set to preserve the secrecy of the plot.	D
The exterior of "Wode Hall", the Ridgeway estate, was used in the opening credits of Il mio amico Ri [...]	D
The derringer that Jacqueline De Bellefort holds in the scene with Hercule Poirot was a Sharps four [...]	D
Although Tony Walton had been much lauded for his period costumes for Assassinio sull'Orient Express [...]	D
Filming had to be stopped every day at noon for around two hours because temperatures reached around [...]	D
In 1944, the novel "Death on the Nile" (1937) was adapted into a theatrical play by Agatha Christie [...]	D
Poirot (Peter Ustinov) does not say bid adieu to Mrs. Van Schuyler (Bette Davis) upon her leaving th [...]	D
Both Angela Lansbury and Sam Wanamaker appear together in The Shell Seekers (1989).	D
The film has six Academy Award recipients in its cast: Peter Ustinov, Bette Davis, George Kennedy, D [...]	D
Maggie Smith appeared in Delitto sotto il sole (1982). She also appeared with David Niven in Neil Si [...]	D
According to producer Richard Goodwin, Bette Davis brought her own make-up, mirrors, and lights to E [...]	D
Cybill Shepherd turned down the role of Linnet Ridgeway.	D
The second movie, after "Manchurian Candidate", in which Angela Lansbury is killed by a shot to the [...]	D
Salome Otterbourne wears a crescent-and-star-shaped jewel barrette. In 1937, Egypt's flag was a cres [...]	D
Trying to scare an embezzler, Hercule Poirot narrates a story that the grand vizier Ptahhotep was ex [...]	D
Salome Otterbourne refers to the god of Crocodilopolis (the City of Crocodiles) while speaking to Po [...]	D
The choice of ''Death on the Nile'' to be the Agatha Christie novel filmed as the follow-up to Assas [...]	D
Michael York was attached to this project at one stage: if so Assassinio sull'Orient Express (1974) [...]	D
Jane Birkin and Maggie Smith later appeared with Peter Ustinov in Delitto sotto il sole (1982).	D
The paddle steamer on which Agatha Christie had cruised the Nile in 1937: the P. S. Sudan, was still [...]	D
Mia Farrow based her (impressive) southern English accent on Celia Johnson and watched several of he [...]	D
This is the second Agatha Christie movie in the Brabourne-Goodwin franchise. Originally titled "Murd [...]	D
This movie was released 41 years after Christie's novel was published.	D
The film adapts the character of romance novelist Salome Otterbourne from the original novel. Salome [...]	D
At the top of the pyramid, Simon tells Jacqueline that he and Linnet saw her at the Hotel Daniele in [...]	D
An irritated Colonel Race sarcastically asks why nobody shoots the bombastic and sometimes overbeari [...]	D
This is Angela Lansbury 's first appearance in an Agatha Christie murder mystery. She would play Mis [...]	D
As this film was supposed to have an all star cast, the famous Egyptian actor Omar Sharif was origin [...]	D
While the cast and crew were on location, a new scene was written necessitating the ad hoc making of [...]	D
The swank limousine seen speeding through a small Britiish town in the film's first scene had previo [...]	D
La signora in giallo: Death 'N Denial (1995), which is set in Egypt, had a character called "Sally O [...]	D
This was the first of Peter Ustinov's six performances as Hercule Poirot.	D
There are four murders in the film. Three by use of a handgun and one by use of a scalpel. There is [...]	D
The song Jacqueline sings in the lounge just before she shoots Simon is "Frankie and Johnny", a folk [...]	D
The character of Colonel Race, one of Agatha Christie's recurring characters, was a counter-intellig [...]	D
Poirot mentions a Moulage Test in the denouement. The test he describes is a dermal nitrate test, wh [...]	D
Peter Ustinov is the only actor who got star billing on the opening credits, as his is the first nam [...]	D
Both Peter Ustinov and Jack Warden appeared in Giallo in casa Muppet (1981).	D
They kept in the scene where Proirot accuses the ship waiter; even though this is completely ridicul [...]	D
During World War II, Major David Niven's batman (personal attendant) was Private Peter Ustinov.	D
Albert Finney was initially asked to reprise his role as Poirot from Assassinio sull'Orient Express [...]	D
Angela Lansbury had never seen the finished film version of Assassinio sul Nilo (1978) until she att [...]	D
Dancer Wayne Sleep, relatively unknown at the time, choreographed the tango scene. He reported in 20 [...]	D
Seven of the cast members account for a total of twenty-eight acting Oscar nominations with eight wi [...]	D
The film's potentially romantic pair: Olivia Hussey and Jon Finch, had each starred on film as half [...]	D
The film takes place in 1937.	D
"Death on the Nile" was the 16th novel featuring Hercule Poirot. Agatha Christie wrote 33 novels fea [...]	D
As has been previously mentioned, the first draft of the filming script was written when it was beli [...]	D
Mia Farrow and Lois Chiles had previously co-starred in Il grande Gatsby (1974), also set during the [...]	D
The uncredited actor who finds Loiuse's body while putting towels in the room is Saeed Jaffrey.	D
Colonel Johnny Race boards the S.S. Karnak wearing a straw boater hat with a "Royal Green Jackets" h [...]	D
Agatha Christie was inspired to write the film's source novel while on an extended 1937 Egyptian vac [...]	D
Barbara Hicks, who had a small cameo as a school teacher, appeared in Delitto sotto il sole (1982). [...]	D
First of three produced screenplays from novels by Dame Agatha Christie, written by Anthony Shaffer. [...]	D
The film cast includes five Oscar winners: Peter Ustinov, Bette Davis, George Kennedy, David Niven, [...]	D
Accommodation problems were rife while location filming in Egypt. No hotel reservations were made fo [...]	D
Simon Doyle, while accusing Jackie of following him and his new bride Linnet, mentions that they spo [...]	D

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