Almost everyone on the S.S.Karnak, cruising the Nile, has a reason to want heiress Linnet Ridgeway dead. Her jewels are coveted by elderly Mrs. van Schuyler, her maid is upset because Linnet won’t give her a promised dowry, writer Salome Otterbourne is facing a libel suit brought by Linnet, Salome’s daughter Rosalie wants to protect her mother, American Andrew Pennington has been embezzling from the Ridgeway family, and former friend Jacqueline de Bellefort is upset that Linnet stole her fiance, Simon, away from her. Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot must unravel the mystery when Linnet (and some of the others) turn up dead. -–IMDb
I grew up watching this movie, so I have a lot of memories related to it. In my opinion, it's a masterpiece!
Indeed. This was wheeled out practically every Christmas on British television (same category as A Passage to India, The Sound of Music, etc. - stately and safe I suppose), so it achieved a kind of iconic childhood status here too.
Pleasant evocation of an essentially musty genre with the mechanical plot devices smoothed over by decorous art direction: all pretty back-drops and over-cut costumes peopled by fruity turns. Like any cake, it’s sweet to the taste but not especially good for you. Nino Rota’s stately score is a treat.
This was stupid. Second star is only because a very annoying Angela Lansbury eventually gets shot in the head by Mia Farrow.