Her other films at this time include "Murder by Death" (1976) with Vincent Canby of "The New York Times" writing, that the film had one of Simon's "nicest, breeziest screenplays," with James Coco "very, very funny as the somewhat prissy take-off on Hercule Poirot" and David Niven and Maggie Smith "marvelous as Dick and Dora Charleston, though they haven't enough to do." Smith also starred in "Death on the Nile" (1978) alongside Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, Peter Ustinov, and David Niven.