Murder On The Orient Express (1974)


Albert Finney           Hercule Poiret
Lauren Bacall           Mrs Hubbard
Martin Balsam           Bianchi
Ingrid Bergman          Greta
Jacqueline Bisset       Countess Andrenyi
Jean-Pierre Cassel      Pierre
Sean Connery            Colonel Arbuthnott
John Gielgud            Beddoes
Wendy Hiller            Princess Dragomiroff
Anthony Perkins         McQueen
Vanessa Redgrave        Mary Debenham
Rachel Roberts (III)    Hildegarde
Richard Widmark         Ratchett
Michael York            Count Andrenyi
Colin Blakely           Hardman
George Coulouris        Doctor
Denis Quilley           Fiscarelli
Vernon Dobtcheff        Concierge
Jeremy Lloyd (II)       ADC
John Moffat             Chief Attendant

Directed by:            Sidney Lumet
Produced by:            John Brabourne, Richard Goodwin



Brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot finds himself on board the Orient Express where everyone seems 
to have concluded that hateful financier Ratchett was behind the abduction and murder of the infant 
daughter of a famed aviatrix. Thus, when Ratchett is himself found murdered, everyone is suspect.

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Famous detective Hercule Poirot is on the Orient Express, but the train is caught in the snow. When one 
of the passengers is discovered murdered, Poirot immediately starts investigating.

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The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot boards the Orient Express. One of the passengers requests his protection, 
but Poirot declines. The next day the passenger is found dead in his compartment and Poirot is asked to solve 
the case. The train is forced to stop due to a snow drift blocking the tracks. This gives him a few hours to 
figure out the murderer's identity before the local police take over the investigation. During his 
investigation, Poirot discovers that many of the passengers have some connection to a 5 year old case where 
an infant was kidnapped and murdered in which the mastermind escaped prosecution. This lead to the death 
(during childbirth) of the mother and the suicide of her father. This could be the vital clue to crack the 
case, but can he do it in time?

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Unexpectedly returning to England from Istanbul, famed Belgian detective Hercule Poirot finds himself traveling 
on the Orient Express. One of the passengers, Mr. Ratchett informs Poirot that he has been receiving anonymous 
threats and asks Poirot to act as his bodyguard. Poirot declines but when Ratchett is found the next morning 
stabbed to death, it is apparent that the threats he received were very real. Poirot soon deduces that Ratchett 
was in fact the infamous Cassetti, believed to have been the man behind the kidnapping and murder of 3-year old 
Daisy Armstrong some 5 years previously. As he begins to question the dozen or so passengers on the train, he 
realizes that several of them have a connection to the Armstrong family and he begins to form a solution to a 
very complex crime.