Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express

Buy This Item Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express by Paramount  Available from Amazon  $9.99  on 11-14-2008     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. <I>--Marshall Fine</I> Reader Reviews I love mysteries and I love Agatha Christie. Though not overly exciting or suspensful, this is a gem of a film. It features wonderful performances and a great favorite character of mine, Hercule Poirot. He is just a very likeable man and he kept me guessing the whole while. Its more of a character film than a true mystery, though it definitly contains that element. I read the book in school and it certainly remains loyal, I believe, to the text, which is such a rarity.

Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express Available from Amazon Price: $9.99 Updated on 11-14-2008.

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