Murder on the Orient Express / Nat Cohen presents for EMI Film Distributors Ltd. ; a John Brabourne, Richard Goodwin production ; screenplay by Paul Dehn ; directed by Sidney Lumet.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 59188419000 | Paramount2073473 | ParamountLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English Publisher: Hollywood, California: Paramount Pictures , [2017]Description: 1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express
- Music, Richard Rodney Bennett ; photographed by Geoffrey Unsworth ; edited by Anne V. Coates
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Like many of Agatha Christie's mysteries, Murder on the Orient Express is predicated on an actual event, in this case the Lindbergh kidnapping. In the movie, everyone on board the Orient Express seems to have concluded that hateful financier Ratchett (Richard Widmark) was behind the abduction and murder of the infant daughter of a famed aviatrix. Thus, when Ratchett is himself found murdered, everyone is suspect. Normally, the police would handle the investigation, but the train has been stalled by a snowslide halfway between Istanbul and Paris. Thus, it's up to the insufferable but brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (an unrecognizable Albert Finney) to activate his "little grey cells" and determine who's guilty. Among the suspects are colorful characters played by Lauren Bacall, Jacqueline Bisset, Sean Connery, Wendy Hiller, John Gielgud, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, and Ingrid Bergman, whose performance won her a third Academy Award. (In her acceptance speech, Bergman apologized for her win, insisting that Day for Night's Valentina Cortese deserved the prize.) The first and best in a long line of contemporary Christie adaptations, the film scores on atmosphere, period detail, and richness of characterization. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
DVD ; NTSC, region 1 ; widescreen enhanced for 16:9 TVs ; English 5.1 Dolby Digital/English mono/French mono.
English or French dialogue; English subtitles.
Title from opening credits.
Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean Pierre Cassel, Sean Connery.
Music, Richard Rodney Bennett ; photographed by Geoffrey Unsworth ; edited by Anne V. Coates
Originally released as a motion picture in 1974.
Rating: PG.
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.