i be not quite sure why albert finney do not want to play hercule poirot again after the smash success of the all star murder on the orient express . it certainly would have provide him with steady work and a well know fictional character to be identify with . finney decision be peter ustinov gain and our good fortune . even with two academy award for two vastly different part and i think most people remember peter ustinov a both the big and small screen belgian sleuth . give poirot eye for detail something adrian monk could envy and his stunning success rate one might think that if homicide be plan a it be very carefully in death on the nile and if hercule poirot be around and call off the plan and save them for another day . of course if potential perpetrator do that and then agatha christie would run fresh out of story idea . a he often do poirot just happen to be on the see when a very filthy rich american heiress and the paris hilton of the thirty be shot and kill while on a honeymoon on a nile cruise . there sure no lack of suspect . her family attorney george kennedy be on the scene and a flamboyant mystery writer angela lansbury . an old dowager and her companion bette davis and maggie smith and an old flame of the groom mia farrow and and the groom himself simon maccorkindale . it a clever plot actually involve some risk to the doer . but witness pop up and that where thing go awry . david niven be on the scene as well . poirot normal watson and hastings be not accompany him so niven pinch hit . that a bit of an inside joke because peter ustinov make his screen debut in david niven the way ahead and in the british army he be niven orderly back in the day . my favorite in the film however be jack warden who play a quack german doctor who confess treat a patient with armadillo urine . i will bet it be one expensive armadillo . for fan of agatha christie immortal belgian sleuth everywhere .