Murder on the Orient Express was written by Agatha Christie in 1934. In 1974, British director SIdney Lumet put together the murder mystery film with an exceptional cast of well known actors including Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Jaqueline Bisset, Sean Connery, Albert Finney, John Gielgud, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave and Micheal York.
The story opens when Famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot must return home from Istanbul. He is friends with the man in charge of the train, Signor Bianchi who gives up his own first class quarters for the detective. Through the night, the train comes to a standstill in Yugoslavia, due to snow on the tracks. An uncouth American businessman, Samuel Rachett is found murdered and the detective must discover who among the other passengers is guilty.
The train is filled with men and women of various ages, nobility and wealth. They include a count and countess, a princess, a governess, the elderly Mrs. Caroline Hubbard, a couple of businessmen, and a missionary, a doctor and a couple of assistants/ attendants. The clues point in all directions and the defective knows that they are planted since he had one article of evidence added to his personal belongings. He relies on interviews and broken tidbits of conversation he overheard prior to the murder and his own intuition and experience to piece together the guilty, the motive and double identities.
It’s a classic who done it, not to be missed.
