*SPOILERS On The Orient Express*
Early '30s: a man, Ratchett (Richard Widmark) is murdered, stabbed twelve times, in his own cabin on the Orient Express. Poirot (Albert Finney) is on that very train, and begins to work on the case as soon as he can, finding out that Ratchett was none other than a mafioso called Cassetti (funny trivia - the name is actually the Italian word for 'drawers'), who had been responsible of the kidnapping and the brutal murder of a little girl, Daisy Armstrong, five years before, which also brought the death of five other people - Daisy's mother, her unborn child, Daisy's father, the falsely accused maid and the maid's mother, and that revenge for Daisy could be a motive.
Any of the twelve passengers whose cabins were situated in the same carriage as Cassetti's becomes automatically a suspect, but who actually did it?
The secretary (Anthony Perkins)? The butler (John Gielgud)? The Russian Princess (Wendy Hiller)? Her German Maid (Rachel Roberts)? The Hungarian Count (Michael York) and his wife (Jacqueline Bisset)? The American chatterbox (Lauren Bacall)? The train controller (Jean-Pierre Cassel)? The Swedish Missionary (Ingrid Bergman)? The Colonel (Sean Connery)? The Teacher (Vanessa Redgrave)? The PI (Colin Blakely)? The Italian (Denis Quilley)?
Find it out in one of the most interesting, most involving and overall better movies based on Agatha Christie's mystery novels.
The acting is top notch, the script is tight, the director knows how to work with such a rich cast in a handful of locations... long story short, a movie not to miss!
Murder On The Orient Express: 9/10.
Early '30s: a man, Ratchett (Richard Widmark) is murdered, stabbed twelve times, in his own cabin on the Orient Express. Poirot (Albert Finney) is on that very train, and begins to work on the case as soon as he can, finding out that Ratchett was none other than a mafioso called Cassetti (funny trivia - the name is actually the Italian word for 'drawers'), who had been responsible of the kidnapping and the brutal murder of a little girl, Daisy Armstrong, five years before, which also brought the death of five other people - Daisy's mother, her unborn child, Daisy's father, the falsely accused maid and the maid's mother, and that revenge for Daisy could be a motive.
Any of the twelve passengers whose cabins were situated in the same carriage as Cassetti's becomes automatically a suspect, but who actually did it?
The secretary (Anthony Perkins)? The butler (John Gielgud)? The Russian Princess (Wendy Hiller)? Her German Maid (Rachel Roberts)? The Hungarian Count (Michael York) and his wife (Jacqueline Bisset)? The American chatterbox (Lauren Bacall)? The train controller (Jean-Pierre Cassel)? The Swedish Missionary (Ingrid Bergman)? The Colonel (Sean Connery)? The Teacher (Vanessa Redgrave)? The PI (Colin Blakely)? The Italian (Denis Quilley)?
Find it out in one of the most interesting, most involving and overall better movies based on Agatha Christie's mystery novels.
The acting is top notch, the script is tight, the director knows how to work with such a rich cast in a handful of locations... long story short, a movie not to miss!
Murder On The Orient Express: 9/10.