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Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express |  | Director: Sidney Lumet
Actors: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Anthony Perkins
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  126 reviews
Sales Rank: 5889
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 128 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: PARD087904D
ISBN: 0792198247
UPC: 097360879049
EAN: 9780792198246
ASIN: B0002I832C
Theatrical Release Date: November 24, 1974
Release Date: September 7, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
HERCULE POIROTI IS A DAPPER DETECTIVE FOR WHOM MURDER SOLVING IS A PRECISE, INTELLECTUAL EXCERCISE. POIROT AGREES TOINTERVIEW ALL ABOARD THE FAMOUS ORIENT EXPRESS' CALAIS COACH, HOPING TO FIND THE KILLER OF AN AMERICAN MILLIONAIRE BEFORE THE LOCAL POLICE ARRIVE.
Just the name "Orient Express" conjures 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 persnickety 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 setup 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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Showing reviews 1-5 of 126
 Great movie! July 30, 2010
Blanco
I became aware of the 1974 version of Murder on the Orient Express while scanning a computer movie program. They gave it high marks and I have to wholly agree. I noticed some reviewers whining about Albert Finney playing Poirot and, while I am a fan of David Suchet as Poirot, I think Finney did a great job. To say the cast is star-studded would be an understatement. Five stars for a great movie!
Finney doing Poirot--putting on his hairnet & gloves-what a hoot! July 12, 2010
C. Joy (Elkhorn, NE United States)
For those of you giving only one or two stars...Good thing almost no body agrees with you.
Just watching Finney do Poirot--putting on his hairnet, mustache net, gloves & turning pages of newspaper while playing an air violin was a hoot. And Wendy Hiller, as dowager Princess Dragomiroff, was wonderful right down to her painted dark black fingernails as she offered them out to "Bianchi" Martin Balsam to kiss. As was the multiple duels of Poirot wit or charm or anger with train suspects...especially well-played accented parts of "Hildegarde" by the lesser knowns Rachel Roberts, and pivotal cabin steward "Pierre" by actor Jean-Pierre Cassel.
I guess if you want high action you need to go to the plethera of computer generated movies doing all the "acting" as old fashioned dialogue and body language and facial reactions is most of the acting done on this film. The Orient train itself is depicted fabulously and believably. The richness of many scenes...these characters as each arrives to get on the train is unique from the frazzled Christian missionary to the overprotective Count & wife as they huddle together. But Lauren Becall's arrival is the best to watch.
Each one of the actors did a very specific and unique character piece, which is what Agatha Christie writes in her sleuthing novels.
It is extremely rare to have such a huge cast of famous actors plying their trade in a film together. It is a classic movie worth buying and keeping to view without a swear word necessary at all.
murder on the orient express May 19, 2010
jane
This Oscar winning adaptation of Agatha Christie's book of the same title is magnificent. With a stunning all star cast including Albert Finney (outstanding as the incomparable Hercule Poirot), Ingrid Bergman (oscar winner), Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Sir John Gielgud, Dame Wendy Hiller, Rachel Roberts, the wonderful Anthony Perkins, Jacqueline Bisset, Michael York, and the fantastic Richard Widmark as the...this production could not be better. For those who have not seen the film, the climax of this whodunit will prove surprising and, dare I say it, satisfying. I have seen it many times over the years, and, after finding it on Amazon purchased it. In my judgment this film ranks with Witness For The Prosecution as the best of all the screen adaptations of Dame Agatha Christie's novels. Enjoy !
Engaging and elegant adaptation of this classic Agatha Christie mystery. December 16, 2009
Paul Tognetti (Cranston, RI USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When it comes to mystery movies I would have to rank 1974's "Murder On the Orient Express" right at the top of my list. This is a magnificent film that contains just about all of the elements I look for in a mystery movie. It goes without saying that the writing is first rate. The film is based on Agatha Christie's 1934 novel of the same name. "Murder On the Orient Express" is directed by Sidney Lumet who has been the guiding light for more than 50 feature films including such classics as "12 Angry Men", "Fail Safe", "Network", "The Verdict" and "Serpico" to name but a few. Add to the mix an all-star cast including such legendary performers as Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Sean Connery, Ingrid Bergman, Michael York, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Martin Balsam and Anthony Perkins and you would seem to have all the ingredients in place for a first rate motion picture. In my view "Murder On the Orient Express" completely lives up to those lofty expectations.
Clearly the star of this production is Albert Finney who plays one of Agatha Christie's most famous and long-lived charactors, the fictional Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Poirot just happens to be a passenger on the Orient Express when a gruesome murder takes place in the wee small hours of the morning. The victim was a gentlemen who called himself Ratchett. The previous evening Ratchett had attempted to engage Poirot as a personal bodyguard because he had been receiving threatening letters and feared for his life. Poirot turned down that job but would be persuaded to conduct an investigation of the brutal crime right there on the the train. Poirot would quickly discover that Mr. Ratchett was none other than a gangster named Carlo Cassetti who had allegedly masterminded the murder of Daisy Armstrong some years earlier. Daisy was the the baby daughter of a wealthy British Army Colonel who had settled in the U.S. with his American-born wife. This sensational case was headline news all over the world at the time. Poirot would also discover that 12 of the passengers on the Orient Express had some connection to the Armstrong case. After interviewing all 12 of these passengers and sifting through all of the available evidence Poirot would come to a startling conclusion.
"Murder On the Orient Express" proves that a great movie need not be filled with blood, gore and violence to be entertaining. I wish there were more films like it. I recently purchased the DVD and viewed this film for the first time in a good long while. I found it just as entertaining this time as I did when I first saw it in the theater back in 1974. Very highly recommended!
Movies vs. Books November 22, 2009
E. Jands (North Dakota)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For those of you out there who are multi talented, able to read and watch television, you already understand that any book that is later represented by a movie is usually far different so if you take the movie for what it is worth as a movie this is one of my favorites. I feel Albert Finney does a fine job of more closely representing the character of Poirot. Though if you are a fan of Peter Ustinov as Poirot you may not like this movie at all. There are some big names in here for the time when the movie was made though I doubt most people today will know who half of them are. There are two actors in this story that also appear in a later Agatha Christie Movie (Evil Under the Sun). And there is also a young Anthony Perkins (Norman Bates from Pyscho). It is a fairly long movie when it was released on VHS it actually came on two tapes. The movie has a richness to it that seems to capture what we believe or want to believe that time period was like. Honestly at the price you not taking a loss, I hope you enjoy.
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