Death on the Nile

Nothing out of the ordinary here, but with a star-studded cast like this, one really can’t go wrong. I am of course in love with the dashing David Niven, whose very serious character’s inability to understand Poirot’s French provide half the laugh-out-loud jokes:

Poirot: Mon Dieu, j’ai faim.
Race: [whispers] Poirot! You have a woman?
Poirot: Not femme, faim! I am… peckish.

The other half belong to Angela Lansbury, as the often-plastered romance novelist. It really is a shame she is only remembered as Jessica Fletcher, though make no mistake, Murder, She Wrote was also a great childhood love of mine.

For the cast and a good mystery, it’s a fun way to spend a couple hours.