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Agatha Christie's Murder On The Orient Express [VHS] [1974]

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Just the name "Orient Express" conjures up images of a bygone era. Add an all-star cast (including Sean Connery, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset and Lauren Bacall, to name a few) and Agatha Christie's delicious plot and how can you go wrong? Particularly if you add in Albert Finney as Christie's delightfully pernickety sleuth, Hercule Poirot. Someone has knocked off nasty Richard Widmark on this train trip and, to Poirot's puzzlement, everyone seems to have a motive--just the set-up for a terrific whodunit. Though it seems like an ensemble film, director Sidney Lumet gives each of his stars their own solo and each makes the most of it. Bergman went so far as to win an Oscar for her role. But the real scene-stealer is the ever-reliable Finney as the eccentric detective who never misses a trick. --Marshall Fine


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Belgian criminologist, Hercule Poirot, investigates a puzzling murder aboard the famous express. Based on Agatha Christie's classic novel.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely up to Agatha Christie standards, 28 April 2005
By bernie "xyzzy" (Arlington, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express [DVD] [1974] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
The movie was made as a period piece. There are great scenes of the express, landscapes, food and other items. The costumes are also very plush. Even though the movie is star studded the actors to not out shine the characters they play.

As usual Hercule is in earshot of many private conversations that will be used later to his sleuthing advantage once processed by his little gray cells. On the train Hercule (Albert Finney) is approached by an American business man who tries to heir him for protection. Hercule turns him down and the next morning the business man is dead.

This movie has everything that makes Agatha Christie movies great. Everyone is a suspect. Everybody could have done it. Only Hercule Poirot can figure this out. Naturally Hercule Poirot must sort through the red herrings to extract the truth. This time he comes up with two different answers. You need to add this one to your collection.

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3.0 out of 5 stars The Film Does not do Justice to the Story, 1 Mar 2007
By Mr. A. E. Hall "brother_of_sadako" (Liverpool, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Murder on the Orient Express [DVD] (DVD)
I first read Murder on the Orient Express at school. Unlike most books where I ended up desperately trying to finish the book at 3:00 am the day before a test, I was unable to put this one down, and even (I admit with shame), had to check my room and under the bed for some terrible fear of seeing the 'woman in the scarlet kimono' or the 'small dark man with the womanish voice'. How excited I was to see the film.

Unfortunately, I was a bit let down. This is down in part to two reasons. Firstly it is the length of the film which needed AT LEAST another hour to tell the story properly. Secondly, it is the fact that most of the all-star cast fall flat on their faces. Co. Arbuthnott is supposed to cold and unemotional, so what in God's name convinced someone to cast James Bond himself in the role is beyond me. Albert Finney gets many of the eccentricities of Hercule Poirot wrong, and he is no David Suchet. Add to that the brilliant but miscast John Gielgud and the overly jerky and quirky Anthony Perkins and you have a mish mash of great talent being squandered, but all manage to beat the insanely OTT Mrs Hubbard.

Also, the film missed so many particulars of the crime - such as lack of tracks in the snow proving that the murderer is still on the train, and the fact that the body was stabbed after death, with some blows struck with a left hand and some with a right! Some of the characters get almost no attention whatsoever such as Mr Hardman, and crucial particulars of the crime are glanced over in brief such as the pipe cleaner, the broken watch and the complete absence of the 'small dark man with the womanish voice'.

The story is good enough to make it worth watching, but it is far too short, far too lacking in detail and too porrly cast to even touch the book, for Christie nuts only.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Class of a by-gone age., 22 Nov 2000
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One of the best adaptations of an Agatha Christie novel. An excellent cast has been brought together to produce a first class production. The script is well written & very tight, keeping to the matter in hand. The costume & set design are excellent with a lot of time, money & thought going in them. The directors use of space & light gives the impression of the lack of room in the carriages. The pace of the film is very fast as Albert Finney works his way through the passengers to get to his conclusion. The yard stick that all later productions, would work from.
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