Murder on the Orient Express | Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall

Murder on the Orient Express | Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall | Classic Worthy of Many Watchings

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highly recommended

True to the original material

If you like the book, you will like this movie. Of course, movies are never quite as good as the book is, but if you account for that ahead of time, you will like this movie.

Classic Worthy of Many Watchings

This was a great book, and an even greater movie. A stellar cast came out for this one, including Sean Connery, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Berman, Michael York and many others. Albert Finney plays Hercule Poirot, the obsessively clean Belgian detective who pre-dates Adrian Monk as an incredibly intelligent but quirky detective.

Right away it's clear that this storyline is based on the Lindbergh kidnapping. The child of a rich couple is stolen and then slain. Only a short while into the train ride, a man is slain - and it's the main accused of having killed that child. Poirot immediately sees the connection and starts questioning all of the riders, one by one, while the train is stopped by a snowdrift.

The sets and plotting are brilliant. You really get the sense that the occupants are all part of a "well decorated, lavish prison". The rooms are tiny. The people are all jammed together. There isn't any privacy or room to think. The personalities chafe against each other.

Each actor and actress is given their special time on the screen. The interviews are done one by one, giving each personality a chance to develop and shine. I have to say that Finney isn't my favorite actor in the set - I find his interpretation of Poirot a little "reedy" and as if he is hobbling around at times. I accept that each actor that has played this character has his own interpretation of it. That's normal. I just personally like another actor's interpretation better.

I love how the movie takes the time to poke fun at its own genre. One character keeps saying "HE did it!" with each new discussion. He even says "The Butler Did It!" at one point. I love the glass-clinking sequence at the end.

As much as I adore this movie, I do have to point out a few tiny problems. SPOILERS ALERT!!

Surely, if these people all plotted the death of this man, they would have known it would be VERY obvious to police that they all had a common tie. This wasn't a vagrant that was slain, it was a rich, wealthy man. His death would have been seriously investigated. Surely a great alibi would have been arranged for the situation. Instead they all claim they didn't know him at all. This would have been spotted as a lie almost immediately.

I love rewatching this movie even though I know who-done-it - it's just great fun to experience.

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Murder on the Orient Express

This is one of the best Agatha Christie books made into a movie.

A movie to pay all the attention

This movie's events all take place within luxurious but rather doomish scenarios, very dark ones and some characters seem to have played in Dracula movie before this one. Poirot's (the movie hero) hair gel is plain disgusting and the camera focused too much on it. On the hand the movie may do a good job portraying people from those times, so Conservative that you see it even in the way the walk, like Poirot, he moved so stuffily and bending his back. However the case for Mr. Poirot was highly difficult this time. You have the hints all in front of you, yet finding the bad guy is like finding a needle in a haystack. What I can state most in favor of this movie is that you won't figure how the murder and the explanation will be totally awesome and far out even by Agatha's standars! It couldn't happen in real world but it's great for a novel and movie.

This movie should only be seen when you actually own it or have it because it is too dense on content. If you watch it on TV you'll risk too loose countless details and may not understand the case

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One of the best adaptions of Agatha Christie

Though it`s hard to forget the solution once u have seen it once, it remains a treat because of the starpower and the fact that they don`t make`m like that any more.

Ingrid Bergman is good as Greta Olsson and claimed that she was originally offered the Wendy Hiller-role, but wanted to be Swedish(She was of course, with a German mother who died when Ingrid was two years old. Her father died when she was 12 and being a photographer, filmed her at all times. But times damaged the negative and her heritage was thought lost forever. It was only when she came to Hollywood that her boss David O. Selznick restored the footage and she was able to see her mother Friedel on film for the first time).

Lauren Bacall is to my mind - the standout here - in a drama borrowed from the tragic Lindbergh-kidnapping case in 1932.

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