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Death on the Nile (1978) More at IMDb Pro »

• Filming had to be stopped every day at noon because temperatures reached 130 degrees F at that time.
  
  
• Aboard ship, no one was allowed his or her own dressing room, so Bette Davis, Maggie Smith, and Angela Lansbury all shared a room.
  
  
• The movie was shot aboard the paddle steamer 'Memnon' (in the movie named 'Karnak'), one of the few paddle steamers remaining on the Nile.
  
  

• Albert Finney was initially asked to reprise his role as Poirot from Murder on the Orient Express (1974). However, he had found the make-up he had to wear for the first movie very uncomfortable in the hot interior of the train, and on realizing that he would have to undergo the same experience, this time in temperatures exceeding 100 degrees Fahrenheit, he declined the role.
  
  
• Michael York was attached to this project at one stage.
  
  
• Cybill Shepherd turned down the role of Linnet Doyle
  
  
• David Niven as Colonel Johnny Race boards the Karnak wearing a straw boater hat with a Royal Green Jackets hatband, and later in the film wears a Royal Green Jackets necktie. The Royal Green Jackets (formed in 1966) were, at the time the film was made, the descendant regiment of Niven's wartime regiment the King's Royal Rifle Corps.
  
  
• In this Agatha Christie story Angela Lansbury plays the author Salome Otterbourne; in "Death 'N Denial" of _"Murder She Wrote" (1984)_ (also whodunits, where Lansbury is the heroin sleuth), playing in Egypt, a character is called Sally Otterburn.
  
  

• SPOILER: The song Jackie is singing in the lounge just before she shoots Simon is "Frankie and Johnny," a folk song about a woman who shoots her lover after discovering that he is cheating on her.
  
  

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