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All-star adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel set in 1934 on the Orient Express. A financier travelling from Istanbul to Paris is found dead, stabbed a dozen times, and it's up to celebrated Belgian detective Hercule Poirot to solve the crime. He painstakingly interviews those in the same railway car and through an elaborate re-creation aims to find out just who the killer is.

Keywords:

Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Murder Mystery, Based-on-Novel, Movie, Film, Movies, Films, Oscar Best Actor Nominee

Additional Information:

(1974) (UK) (4 Star)

Cast:

Albert Finney	.... Hercule Poirot
Lauren Bacall	.... Mrs. Hubbard
Ingrid Bergman	.... Greta Ohlsson
Sean Connery	.... Colonel Arbuthnot
John Gielgud	.... Mr. Beddoes
Anthony Perkins	.... Hector MacQueen
Jacqueline Bisset	.... Countess Andrenyi
Martin Balsam	.... Signor Bianchi
Vanessa Redgrave	.... Mary Debenham
Jean-Pierre Cassel	.... Pierre Paul Michel

Supporting Cast:

Wendy Hiller	.... Princess Dragomiroff
Rachel Roberts	.... Hildegarde
Richard Widmark	.... Mr. Ratchett
Michael York	.... Count Andrenyi
Colin Blakely	.... Mr. Hardman

Directors:

Sidney Lumet

Writers:

Agatha Christie
Paul Dehn