Hodnotenie filmu, hereck Hercule Poirot chce pro Death on the Nile) je detekt Death on the Nile (novel) . The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2. The action takes place in Egypt, mostly on the Nile River. Poirot also notices that Jackie (a nickname given to her and used by intimates; short for Jacqueline) is very much smitten and is in love with Simon. The next day, Jacqueline takes Simon to meet her best friend, wealthy young heiress Linnet Ridgeway, in the hopes that Linnet will offer Simon a job. Death on the Nile (Q381756) From Wikidata. Jump to: navigation, search. Language Label Description Also known as; English: Death on the Nile. Smrt na Nilu/ Death on the Nile Agatha Christie. Three months later, Simon has broken off his engagement to Jacqueline and married Linnet. At their shared hotel in Cairo, Poirot sees an apparent chance meeting between the Doyles and Jacqueline. Afterwards, Linnet approaches Poirot and confides that Jacqueline has been stalking them since they were married, which is antagonizing both of them. Poirot says the Doyles have no legal recourse, but tries to reason with Jacqueline in private, urging her to let go of her attachment to Simon and not . To their rage, Jacqueline learns their plans and appears on board with them. Other passengers include. American erotica novelist Salome Otterbourne and her daughter, Rosalie. Mrs. Allerton and her son, Tim. Linnet's American trustee, Andrew Pennington, who happened to run into her in Egypt. Linnet's maid, Louise Bourget. American socialite Marie Van Schuyler and her younger cousin, Cornelia Robson. Miss Van Schuyler's nurse, Miss Bowers. A young traveler named, Mr. Ferguson, an outspoken Socialist. Archaeologist, Signor Richetti. A diffident young man named James Fanthorp. An Austrian physician named Dr. They suspect Jacqueline at first, but find out she was on the boat the whole time and could not have done it. Race tells Poirot that one of the passengers is a deadly criminal who has murdered several other people, only Race has not yet identified him. At Simon's insistence, the two other persons present, Cornelia and Mr. Fanthorp, help Jacqueline back to her cabin, and then fetch Dr. Bessner to see to Simon's wound. Nurse Bowers stays in Jacqueline's room all night. Later, Fanthorp tells Bessner the gun is missing. Race takes charge of the situation and asks Poirot to handle the investigation. Several clues seem to incriminate Jacqueline – a . Bessner also assures Poirot that Simon's leg wound completely incapacitated him, and so he could not have moved from his bed, even if he wanted to. Kupte knihu Smrt na Nilu / Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie s 24% slevou v eshopu za 150 K Vrazda v Orient exprese, Smrt na Nile, Vianoce Hercula Poirota, A neostal ani jeden, Opona Nahl Poirot also notices that Linnet's pearl necklace is missing from her room. Several of them heard a splash shortly after midnight, and Miss Van Schuyler claims that she looked out her window and saw Rosalie Otterbourne throw something overboard. But Rosalie denies this. A short time later, the murder weapon is recovered from the Nile – Jacqueline's pistol, wrapped in Miss Van Schuyler's missing velvet stole. To Poirot this makes no sense, when someone wanting to incriminate Jacqueline would have left her pistol behind to incriminate her. Bessner's cabin, while Bessner is ministering to Simon. She says she saw nothing on the night of the murder, but would have done . This choice of words sounds strange to Poirot. But Poirot examines the string and finds it is a fake, meaning the real necklace was stolen sometime earlier. Rosalie admits this, but firmly denies seeing anyone leaving Linnet's cabin on the night of the murder. Bessner's cabin and tell the doctor and Simon what happened. Salome Otterbourne enters and says she knows who killed Linnet and Louise, because she saw that person enter and leave Louise's cabin. Simon yells at her to tell him. Before she can finish her story, a shot is fired from the deck outside, killing her. Before Poirot and Race can get outside, the shooter is gone, having dropped a gun that Poirot recognizes from Andrew Pennington's luggage. Tim stole the pearls from Linnet's cabin that night and substituted the fake string for them, but, likewise, swears he didn't kill her; he does not know if Linnet was already dead when he entered her cabin; Rosalie admits that she saw Tim enter and leave Linnet's cabin, but she has come to love Tim, and was trying to protect him; Poirot clears Tim of the murder and agrees not to report his thievery to the police; Tim promises to reform and happily asks Rosalie to marry him, to the delight of his mother. Their first idea, that the murder was conceived on the spur of the moment after the scene in the lounge, was mistaken; in fact, the murder was planned months in advance – by Jacqueline and Simon. Simon faked being wounded with red ink, hidden in Linnet's nail polish bottle. While Cornelia Robson left to get Jacqueline back to her cabin and Jim Fanthorp called Dr. Bessner, Simon picked up the gun, ran to Linnet's cabin, shot her, and then came back to the lounge and shot himself in the leg, using the velvet stole as a muffler. He reloaded two bullets back into the gun, wrapped it in the stole and threw the bundle overboard before anyone came back. Bessner then examined him and confirmed that his wound left him unable to have left the lounge. She blackmailed Simon and demanded money for hushing her up. But Simon told Jacqueline about it privately. Jacqueline entered Louise's cabin and stabbed her. Otterbourne saw Jacqueline entering the maid's door. She came to Simon and Poirot to tell what she saw, but Simon yelled at Mrs. Otterbourne in a voice loud enough for Jacqueline to hear it – who acted quickly and shot Mrs. Jacqueline says that she and Simon have always been in love, and Simon never cared for Linnet, even when she tried to steal him away from Jacqueline. Jacqueline tells Poirot that the idea of murdering Linnet for her money was Simon's, but she planned it, knowing Simon was not smart enough to pull it off by himself. Poirot confesses that he knew about the second pistol, and wanted to give Jacqueline the chance to take a more humane way out. Bessner's proposal, to the stupefaction of Mr. Ferguson, who had been courting her, in his own uncouth way, during the whole trip. She scored, I contend, two outers in her last three shots; but she is back on the very centre of the bull with Death on the Nile. It is after that, until the retired but by no means retiring little Belgian chooses to tell us the truth, that we are very angry with ourselves indeed. When he does so, anger is swallowed up in admiration. The appearance of corpse after corse . It is no less likely than the run of such things in fiction, and is built not with many preliminary falsifications but almost in a single carefully premeditated flash of movement. It is a matter of opinion whether this author has a superior in giving an unexpected twist to concluding chapters, but it is arguable that she has none. In Death on the Nile, however, the solution of the mystery does not come with all that sudden shock of surprise to which Agatha Christie 'fans' are accustomed. At least it should not, providing that one carefully reads a certain chapter and is willing to pursue to their ultimate implications certain hints dropped by Poirot. Whether or not the reader will succeed in naming the murderer, by which is meant discovering how the crime was committed, and not just guessing at one of the least likely persons, is another matter. In any case, here is a problem eminently worth trying to solve. Punshon of The Guardian in his review of December 1. Christie always passes successfully, and never more so than in her new book. Poirot's little grey cells had indeed been obliged to work at full pressure to unravel a mystery which includes one of those carefully worked out alibis that seem alike to fascinate Mrs. Christie and to provide her with the best opportunities for displaying her own skill. A fault- finding critic may, however, wonder whether M. Poirot is not growing just a little too fond of keeping to himself such important facts as the bullet- hole in the table. If he is to enjoy all, a reader should also know all. Usually if you get a good plot there is something wrong with the writing or the characters. But with her – you have everything that makes a first- class book. The familiar marital triangle, set on a Nile steamer. Comparatively little local colour, but some good grotesques among the passengers – of which the film took advantage. Spies and agitators are beginning to invade the pure Christie detective story at this period, as the slide towards war begins. Apart from the setting and title, the stories are not similar. This refers to the plot in Murder on the Orient Express. They had been fellow- guests at a very strange dinner party- -a dinner party that had ended in death for that strange man, their host. It may be a reference to the novel The Man in the Brown Suit. The stars were Guy Spaull and Patricia Wheel. Others in the all- star cast included Bette Davis (Mrs. Van Schuyler), Mia Farrow (Jacqueline de Bellefort), Maggie Smith (Miss Bowers), Lois Chiles (Linnet Doyle), Simon Mac. Corkindale (Simon Doyle), Jon Finch (Mr. Ferguson), Olivia Hussey (Rosalie Otterbourne), Angela Lansbury (Mrs. Otterbourne), George Kennedy (Mr. Pennington) Jack Warden (Dr. Bessner) and David Niven (Colonel Race). Slight plot changes were made to the sceenplay, deleting several characters, including Cornelia Robson, the Allertons and Mr. Tim Allerton is replaced as Rosalie's love interest by Ferguson. John Moffatt reprised his role of Poirot. The serial was broadcast weekly from Thursday, January 2 to Thursday, January 3. All five episodes were recorded on Friday, July 1. Broadcasting House. Bessner. Robert Portal as Ferguson. Ioan Meredith as Richetti. Janet Maw as Miss Bowerswith Timothy Bateson, Chris Palvo, Christopher Scott and Ben Thomas. Agatha Christie's Poirot Edit. Death on the Nile, a television adaptation shown in 2. Agatha Christie's Poirot, starred David Suchet as Poirot. This version remained largely faithful to the novel. However, some characters were omitted, such as Miss Bowers, Mr.
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