Ustinov is phenomenal, very personal interpretation of the role full of wit and humor. The cast is perfect around him. Love this movie as much Evil under the sun also with Ustinov my absolute favourite Poirot.

@kugelweg

2 жыл бұрын

Ustinov will always be my favorite Poirot also. In fact, he's my favorite actor in ANYTHING! I don't know how he did it, but he made every character he played likeable. He even played likeable villains! The world will probably never see a man like him again.

@DeltaStar777

10 ай бұрын

Agree totally

Maggie and Bette duo was absolutely outstanding and every confrontation between them had me laughing out loud. Loved the film. Thanks

Also the stunning Anthony Powell costumes really transport you back to luxurious 30’s! This has always been my favourite of all the Poirot films

My mother and I saw this in the movie theater when it was first released and we loved it. It is still one of my all-time favorite movies for multiple reasons, but especially for the brilliant and hilarious performance of Angela Lansbury, my favorite actress. Thank you for this review. (Though I must disagree w/you about Lois Chiles. She's a beautiful woman but a dreadful actress.) For those of you who have yet to see "Death on the Nile", I strongly suggest that you watch this version and not the remake.

Thank you for your insightful comments. I agree about David Suchet. He's THE Poirot, and the Poirot in my head. I also agree about the humor in the TV series. A beloved quote regarding vegetable marrows: " She grows to a size merely conventional and then rests on her laurels" The humor on the show, with Hastings and Miss Lemon, is wonderful. ( Back to DOTN)And I hadn't thought of it before- but the stone being pushed by an unseen person is much like a death in And Then There Were None.

Very nice review. It’s refreshing to see someone who likes the Peter Ustinov version. My wife and I really like the Ustinov character, we own all six of the movies.

@HildebrandProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much!

@chrisingram9798

2 жыл бұрын

Since I was sick this weekend, I marathoned through all of the Ustinov Poirot films (Nile, Evil under the sun, Appointment with death, murder in three acts, thirteen for dinner and dead man’s folly). They are all great experiences filled with great actors. Last week we watched all four of the Margaret Rutherford Miss Marple films. If you get a chance, watch ! Very humorous and FUN take on marple/Poirot.

LOL! One of my favorite lines, "I grovel in mortification."

In my top 10 favorite film scores. The theme is marvelous. Ustinov may not have looked like Poirot, but he is my favorite.

@HildebrandProductions

2 жыл бұрын

It's such a memorable score. It's been well over a month since I watched it and the theme still gets stuck in my head from time to time.

A wonderful review of a wonderful film. "Death on the Nile" is a favorite and remains so especially after watching the 2022 version. Thanks.

@HildebrandProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! It's a lot of fun realizing how many people out there also love this film.

I saw this in a theater in 1978, and especially remember the sand/river/sky panoramas. My favorite character ( though I love Ustinov) will always be Angela Lansbury as Salome Otterbourne - she is the best ever!

That was glorious. I'd completely forgotten about this movie.

@HildebrandProductions

Жыл бұрын

It's a classic.

Brilliant review. Really encompassing all elements of the film.

@HildebrandProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much, I appreciate it!

An excellent review. It is refreshing to see someone who doesn't let their admiration of Suchet's Poirot blind them to the travesty of the later series. You highlight it perfectly in praising Ustinov. Christie wrote light, escapist fair. Turning them into dark, judgmental morality plays is flat out wrong.

@HildebrandProductions

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! The earlier episodes are amazing, and I've never been sure why the tonal change was made later on. But thankfully there are a lot of great episodes from the early seasons, and then there are movies like this one, where the character is depicted in way closer to what was written. I appreciate your feedback!

So enjoyable to see one of my all time favorite Christie/Poirot films covered, along w/Lumet's "Murder on The Orient Express". The Brabourne/Goodwin producing team really excelled at these all-star elegant extravaganzas. I hope you continue w/'82's "Evil Under The Sun" and even though not as highly regarded as the Poirot's, 1980's "The Mirror Crack'd" with Angela Lansbury as Miss Marple (just 4 years before becoming Jessica Fletcher on TV's Murder, She Wrote)is also quite fun, although w/o the exotic locale atmosphere of the Ustinov/Finney Poirot's. I wish Brabourne & Goodwin had done more. Maybe Branagh will 🤞.

@HildebrandProductions

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed the review! I actually watched Evil Under the Sun just recently, so I'm hoping to have a review ready soon. And thanks for the recommendation! I'll have to track down a copy of "The Mirror Crack'd".

Thank you for the review. I saw the movie when it was first released, and still remember it with fondness. I love Ustinov in just about anything and was lucky enough to see him on the stage in London in "Romanov and Juliet." I have a great fondness for "Evil Under the Sun" also, with wonderful performances from Maggie Smith and Diana Rigg. One of the joys in that movie was seeing Ustinov's Poirot bathing in the sea. If I remember aright, he wore a very old-fashioned bathing suit, gingerly stepped into the edge of the sea, and while standing up to his shins in the water made some breast stroke motions before delicately stepping onto dry land again. Sheer delight!

Thank you! I watched the remake recently released and had to go back and watch this version right after! 1978 version, IMHO is superior and I greatly enjoyed Ustinov as well. Subscribed and following! I love mystery/thriller/espionage movies and hope you review many.

@HildebrandProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment, I very much appreciate it! And all of those genres are right up my alley as well.

That was a fantastic, insightful review! I think that Peter Ustinov gave more humanity to Poirot than any other actor. I was greatly disappointed with the David Suchet “Death on the Nile.” It just fell flat. Nothing can compare to this movie.

@HildebrandProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I really appreciate that! I've actually never seen the David Suchet version of this story. I would like to check it out yet just for comparison sake, but I am anticipating it being a lot more downbeat, judging by where it fell in the series' run.

@bovnycccoperalover3579

2 жыл бұрын

Agree and also with the reviewer's comments about the Poirot series around Season 7. They butchered "Cards on The Table" and "Murder on the Orient Express".

@kaykutcher2103

Жыл бұрын

Kind of like how Colombo in its later years had to compete against more light hearted fair like Murder She Wrote and Matlock so they turned him into the forth stooge.

I've been watching these older Poirot movies after watching the more recent one. I agree the Ustinov Poirot is likeable. I haven't watched the TV series except for the episode "Murder on the Orient Express" and thought it was too humorless, so it's interesting to know about the tonal shift in the series. After I read all the Poirot books, I will watch the series from the beginning.

@kugelweg

2 жыл бұрын

The series with David Suchet is good to watch, but he veers off from the character quite a bit (which is okay since he does a good job in the role). The adaptations veer off from the source material quite a bit too, often. I enjoy seeing the shows, and enjoy Suchet, but REALLY love to watch the old films with Ustinov. It's like comfort food to me.

Great review! Love Peter Ustinov as Poirot! ( David Suchet also..and Philip Jackson as Japp!) I totally agree that the earlier Suchet's were much more enjoyable than the latter ones. But it's still Ustinov for me. Angela Lansbury is fantastic in this film also and her costumes are perfect for the character and period. Mia Farrow is truly wonderful too..as is Lois Chiles. Oh Gosh..the amazing music! So perfect for the grandeur of the locations.

@HildebrandProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! It's so great to hear from a fellow Poirot fan!

Great review ! one of my fav films of all time: superb acting, sumptous costumes, well rounded characters. Ustinov is a joy to watch, so is the entire cast, a must see ! (pd: Salome Otterbournes tango scene is def the highlight)

@HildebrandProductions

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! It's definitely a classic.

Great analysis, very detailed yet concise.

@HildebrandProductions

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I appreciate your comment!

Likewise to me david Suchet is the ultimate Poirot. And yes toward the end the Itv series became so dark. And what a stellar cast in 1978 version.

As a teen I saw this and murder on the orient express and was so ready to travel

I just rewatched this after watching the 2022 version. This was so much better. I especially loved Bette Davis and Maggie Smith together, so campy. What an extraordinary cast.

Enjoyed your review. Rewatched the movie movie this morning

@HildebrandProductions

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I think it's one of the best Agatha Christie adaptations out there.

Nice review. Well done. A pleasure to watch a review from a person with brains and with a thoughtful approach. That is much more pleasant than the hyped-up teenager style of the typical youtube video.

@HildebrandProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

@mmneander1316

2 жыл бұрын

@@HildebrandProductions Thanks for your reply! Blessings and good luck with your channel.

Love this review glad I found your channel . Would you consider reviewing the Poirot version of Death on the Nile with Suchet?

@HildebrandProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, I'm glad to hear that! I would love to review it. For some reason I've never watched it, but it is in my collection, so I hope to get to it soon.

I don’t think Simon MacCorkindale receives enough attention for his role. His character could be a study of temporary insanity and it’s very interesting to see his dread play out after he realizes he has unleashed a homicidal maniac in his lover/accomplice. Even if the two had escaped the caper on the Karnack, there would’ve been a lot of dark skies ahead for them.

Please do a review on the 2022 version !!! I believe 1978 is much better!!!

@HildebrandProductions

2 жыл бұрын

I haven't had a chance to check out the 2022 version yet, but once I do I'm looking forward to comparing them. Thanks for your comment!

@davidvanhouten5576

2 жыл бұрын

I agree, the 1978 film is tops. I'd also be interested in a review of the 2022 version.

@snowangelnc

2 жыл бұрын

I'd like to see a side by side comparison, this one, the 2022 version, and possibly even the one from the tv series.

Ustinov might not be the most authentic, but he’s my favorite Peroit. He is a character you want to spend time with, as your wife pointed out.

the character changes along with his moustache in the tv series. In the beginning his moustache is jaunty and curves up. then it goes down. coincidence?

@HildebrandProductions

2 жыл бұрын

That's a very good point. I've always liked the earlier moustache better than the later one, but I never put that together. You may be onto something...

@bovnycccoperalover3579

2 жыл бұрын

They changed production companies at some point. Tried to turn Christie into Shakespeare!

Maggie & Bette, Angilla, Jane I loved that movie

Thoroughly enjoyed your review!

@HildebrandProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'm glad to hear it!

Came here from your Witness for the Prosecution reaction!

I like this review and am glad you shared it. I admire the part where you mentioned Ustinov's Poirot being "grandfatherly". This is true, and is actually in keeping with the books and stories Christie wrote. The man, Poirot, was meant to be in his SIXTIES when we first meet him in 1917 in "The Mysterious Affair at Styles". He would have been MUCH older and wiser in THIS story, which is set some 20 years later. PSSTT--it's CAPTAIN Hastings, not Colonel Hastings!

@HildebrandProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! And thank you for pointing that out, I'm surprised at myself that I made that mistake! I'm thinking the fact that David Niven's character is a Colonel is what tripped me up.

Lansbury deserved an Oscar nomination

@lizlunch7066

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely - she is fabulous in this!

@curtisevans4100

10 күн бұрын

She was definitely in the running that year.

1:11 - Yes! David Suchet is *THE* Hercule Poirot! All others are cheep imitations!

@alancrisp1582

7 ай бұрын

🤫 Absolute nonsense. Everyone wants to be a critic !..

Great video thanks for this!! Note: CAPTAIN Hastings :-)

@HildebrandProductions

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! I think someone mentioned that back when I first put this video out. As a lifelong fan of the Hastings character and Hugh Fraser, it still bugs me that I misspoke.

@DeltaStar777

10 ай бұрын

@@HildebrandProductions I think Hastings deserves the promotion:-))

Your fanfare, is that the fanfare from "The Avengers"?

@HildebrandProductions

2 жыл бұрын

It certainly is. Although the name may have been usurped by a certain group of superheroes in the last few years, John Steed and Emma Peel will always be the real Avengers to me.

@BjoernarEricSven

2 жыл бұрын

@@HildebrandProductions The one and only true Avengers.

i saw this year's (2022) D on the Nile, and I thought it was HORRIBLY politically correct!

Et alia . . . All-star cast? Oh yes! As no other. My Hercule Poirot? Only one exists really -- Ustinov's. No humorless hard edginess there, just polished erudition and sophistication loudly lacking within his immediately pre- and post-ceding would-be imitators. One single thing was seemingly lacking tho > NO STEREOPHONIC SOUND Nino Rota seems to have taken credit fully for his scoring, a part of which I think he might better not have. I'll leave the matter at-that for the moment, resisting successfully the severe temptation toward specificity. In the meantime, others might puzzle this out as to my meaning? No matter really re that seeming technical omission -- all the rest comes together and proceeds-through to perfection. Most notable is that, Agatha Christie herself described investigative character Poirot in early 1930 thusly, as according here to Wikipedia . . . "By 1930, Agatha Christie found Poirot "insufferable", and by 1960 she felt that he was a "detestable, bombastic, tiresome, egocentric little creep". CHECK! Accordingly, to this Finney (one time) and Suchet (forever-on) proved as perfection itself, utterly! Much later as compliments same-source: " Christie's daughter Rosalind Hicks observed Ustinov during a rehearsal and said, ' That's not Poirot! He isn't at all like that! ' Ustinov overheard and remarked ' He is now! ' " An excellent rejoinder of Mr. Ustinov's, to which I'd have added if having been there to "And thank GOD for it!!" and shall here for underscoring of that so obvious again -- and thank GOD for it! The Finney and Suchet additions do their jobs JUST as author Christie intended and wrote-of as above but, Mr. Ustinov created a Belgian sleuth that is far the more humanly palatable for repetition, than were his two lessers. Upon investigation we find that, (apropos for instance most all of the commentary left here?) popular votes as sampled from among the non-Christie cognoscenti (i.e. those as not yet pickled postjudicially), serve as backup pro- my assertion quite nicely.

No it is not a good movie. It is enjoyable due to the star-studded cast, the stunning scenery, Peter Ustinov's interpretation of this character. Yet, I don't think very much of Agatha Christie as a writer. The plot is totally unbelievable, the dialogues stunted. Furthermore, I don't have a particular high opinion of a sleuth when he is on a ship with 10 people and can't solve a murder until 3 additional murders are committed. At that point Hercule Poirot shouts out: "It is time for al these murders to stop!" Yeah, do you think you could arrange that, mister master detective? Until now your little grey cells haven't done very much for you.🙄 Yet, I must confess, I saw the movie at least three times.

@alancrisp1582

7 ай бұрын

🤔🤫 Everyone wants to be a critic, I would not give up your day job if I was you !!..

@curtisevans4100

10 күн бұрын

Love the plot, the deception is brilliant.