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DEATH ON THE NILE Directed by John Guillermin Screenplay by Anthony Shaffer
Directed by Robert Mulligan Screenplay by Walter Newman...
...whose hit-'em-over the head style should confine him to urban crime thrillers, shoves his disgusting images into our faces in a manner reminiscent of Linda Blair shoving a crucifix into her crotch. Crunch, crunch. Blatty's novel needed: a) someone less pretentious than Blatty to write the screenplay, and b) a director with more of a sense of lyricism and wit, a modern James Whale, or a Hitchcock, or even a DePalma. Friedkin and Blatty successfully induce nausea, not terror--unless you're one of the impressionable innocents who gave this film its reputation, in which case, frankly...
...Screenplay by Wendell Mayes
...Screenplay by Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins...