Q:Build a movie plot around this: Where do Simon and Linnet go on a cruise to? the river Nile
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The film begins with a meeting between wealthy heiress Linnet Ridgeway (Lois Chiles) and her close friend Jacqueline de Bellefort (Mia Farrow). Jackie wants her fiance, Simon Doyle (Simon MacCorkindale), to work for Linnet, but he and Linnet have a whirlwind affair and end up marrying. While honeymooning in Egypt, they are continually hounded by the jilted Jackie. In an attempt to get away, the Doyles pretend to go to the Cairo Railway Station before backtracking to board their booked cruise on a Nile paddle steamer, the S.S. Karnak.When the passengers venture on-shore to examine a nearby temple, a large stone is pushed off a pillar and narrowly misses Simon and Linnet. They again encounter Jacquie, who boards the ship having ignored the warnings of detective Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov) to stay away, revealing that she carries a small pistol. After a late-night game of cards in the ship's lounge, Jackie confronts Simon. In a drunken rage she fires and shoots him in the leg. The next morning, Linnet Ridgeway is discovered murdered in her cabin, shot in the head by a similar weapon. A "J" is written in blood on the wall from Linnet's finger, appearing to implicate Jackie. Also, Jackie's pistol is missing. Poirot and his friend Colonel Race (David Niven), also a passenger, take it upon themselves to investigate.Most of the other passengers on board the ship are found to have had a motive for murdering Linnet: Mrs van Schuyler (Bette Davis, an elderly American kleptomaniac, displayed great interest in her valuable pearls; her nurse Miss Bowers's (Maggie Smith) family was financially ruined by Linnet's father years earlier; Andrew Pennington (George Kennedy), Linnet's American lawyer, embezzled money from the Ridgeway estate; Swiss psychiatrist Ludwig Bessner (Jack Warden) was facing exposure by Linnet concerning his unorthodox methods; romance novelist Salome Otterbourne (Angela Lansbury) was being sued for libel by Linnet due to a likeness between her and one of Mrs Otterbourne's characters; her daughter...