Mystery time
The Hindu : After the star-studded “Murder on the Orient Express”, which included tinsel town’s brightest like Sean Connery, Ingrid Bergman, Vanessa Redgrave and John Geilgud among others and “Evil Under the Sun”, Agatha Christie’s detective Hercule Poirot will put his little grey cells to use once again in “Death on the Nile”. The film will be aired on PIX tonight at 10 p.m.Like all her well crafted whodunits, “Death On The Nile” also has an enclosed space, the cruise ship, the S. S. Karnak this time and a list of suspects all of who have reason to want the victim dead. Everyone seems to have a grouse against the rich heiress Linnet Ridgeway. Could it be the elderly Mrs. Van Schuyler, her maid , the writer Salome Otterbourne who has a drinking problem, Salome’s daughter Rosalie, the American Andrew Pennington and former friend Jacqueline de Bellefort. But when a series of murders take place and Linnet too becomes the victim, Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot takes charge to unravel the mystery.The film is directed by John Guillermin and Peter Ustinov plays Poirot. Others in the cast include Jane Birkin, Lois Chiles, Bette Davis, David Niven and Maggie Smith. So get that popcorn and watch the mystery unfold….More
