With these and the evidence in mind, Poirot thinks about the case, going into a trance-like state. "[37] Trace Thurman of Bloody Disgusting gave the film three and a half skulls and said, "For those looking for an involving murder mystery that is respectful of its source material and filled with an all-star cast, look no further than Murder on the Orient Express. [32], Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B+, calling it "a lushly old-fashioned adaptation wrapped in a veritable turducken of pearls, monocles, and international movie stars. Richard Rodney Bennett's Orient Express theme has been reworked into an orchestral suite and performed and recorded several times. [40], On the negative side, Matthew Jacobs of The Huffington Post was impressed by the cast, but ultimately felt "Agatha Christie's whodunit has no steam. The Orient Express, snowed up in Yugoslavia, provides the ideal 'closed' set-up for a classic-style exercise in detection, as well as an excuse for an international cast-list. The next morning, Ratchett is found stabbed to death, and Bianchi asks Poirot to solve the case. The main character, Suguro Takeru, modeled on Hercule Poirot, was played by actor Nomura Mansai. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. Poirot realises that Arbuthnot, a former army sniper, never meant to kill him. The elegant train of the 1930s, the Orient Express, is stopped by heavy snowfall. As Poirot begins interviewing everyone on the train, he discovers MacQueen is directly involved as he knows about the Armstrong note and believed it was destroyed and that Hubbard believes the murderer was in her cabin. In the train car are two other passengers: Colonel Arbuthnot, a British officer stationed in India, and Mary Debenham, a young English governess. WebBased on the novel by Agatha Christie, Branagh's colorful, fluid Murder on the Orient Express is a worthy companion to the book's previous big-screen adaptation, Sidney Lumet's 1974 version. [28], A first look at the film and cast was released on May 3, 2017, in an exclusive article by Entertainment Weekly. [14] In August 2016, Leslie Odom Jr. joined the cast. Other passengers include American widow Caroline Hubbard; English governess Mary Debenham; Swedish missionary Greta Ohlsson; American businessman Samuel Ratchett, with his secretary/translator Hector MacQueen, and his English valet Edward Henry Masterman; Italian-American car salesman Antonio Foscarelli; Russian Princess Natalia Dragomiroff and her German maid Hildegarde Schmidt; Hungarian Count Rudolph Andrenyi and his wife Elena; English Colonel John Arbuthnot; American salesman Cyrus B. Hardman; and Greek medical doctor Stavros Constantine. Colonel Armstrong, consumed by grief from the loss of his family, committed suicide. 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[13], Two less notable events helped inspire her novel: Agatha Christie's first journey on the Orient Express in late 1928, and a blizzard near erkezky, Turkey, that marooned the Orient Express for six days just a few months later, in February 1929. The case of the vanishing mystery writer: Christie liked only two of the 19 movies made from her books. The suspects are portrayed by an all-star cast, including Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Vanessa Redgrave, Michael York, Rachel Roberts, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Perkins, Richard Widmark and Wendy Hiller. When Poirot shows him the photo of Paulette, he is visibly moved. WebRunning Time: 2 Hours and 15 Minutes (including a 15 Minute Intermission) Its 1934, just after midnight, and a snowstorm has stopped the opulent Orient Express sleeper train in its tracks. John Brabourne, I've never seen anything like it. The piano soloist was the composer himself. WebSummary. In 1995, the novel was included in Mystery Writers of America's The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time list. Murder on the Orient Express: Official Clip - The Night of the Murder, Murder on the Orient Express: Official Clip - Colonel Arbuthnot, Murder on the Orient Express: Official Clip - Stabbed Twelve Times, Murder on the Orient Express: Official Clip - Ratchett's Murder, Murder on the Orient Express: Official Clip - They're All Connected, Murder on the Orient Express: Official Clip - The Armstrong Case, Murder on the Orient Express: Official Clip - Getting Away with Murder, Murder on the Orient Express: Official Clip - Poisoning Ratchett, Murder on the Orient Express: Official Clip - Memories of Murder, Murder on the Orient Express: Official Clip - Ratchett's Request. [15] In September 2016, Tom Bateman, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Daisy Ridley, Michael Pea, Judi Dench, Lucy Boynton and Derek Jacobi joined the cast. Hubbard grabs the gun and attempts suicide, but it is empty; Poirot wanted to see how the suspects would react. Hubbard.[14]. When a murder occurs on the train on which he's travelling, celebrated detective Hercule Poirot is recruited to solve the case. The film won nine awards in total and had an additional sixteen nominations in 1975. However, heavy snowfall the night before the shooting made the extra snow unnecessaryjust as well, as the snow-laden backup trucks had themselves become stuck in the snow.[9]. Murder on the Orient Express is Christies most famous work, with 3 movies based on it. Isolated and with a killer on board, Poirot must identify the murdererin case he or she decides to strike again. A wealthy American businessman is discovered dead, and the brilliant and beautifully mustachioed Hercule Poirot must solve the mystery before the murderer strikes again. The second is that all the clues except the handkerchief and pipe cleaner were planted and that Michel and all the passengers in the coach, except Helena, stabbed Cassetti, acting as their own jury. The train is stopped by a snowdrift between Vinkovci and Brod in Yugoslavia, and Poirot is awoken from sleep several times, once by a scream from Ratchett's cabin. The second, more complex and far-reaching solution links all the suspects in the coach to the Armstrong case. When he surfaces from it, he deduces the solution. When a murder occurs on the train on which he's travelling, celebrated detective Hercule Poirot is recruited to solve the case. Murder on the Orient Express wasn't made into a movie 40 years ago, and after you see the Sidney Lumet production that opened yesterday at the Coronet, you may be both surprised and glad it wasn't. Murder on the Orient Express is a work of detective fiction by English writer Agatha Christie featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. A board game based on the novel named Orient Express was released in 1985. While the passengers and Pierre all provide suitable alibis for each other, Poirot notes that some of them observed the woman in the red kimono walking down the hallway on the night of the murder. The novel used many elements of the real life case: a young child, firstborn of the family, was kidnapped for ransom directly from the crib, the parents were famous, the father was a well-known pilot and the mother pregnant, and the ransom was paid but the child found dead soon after. Bianchi, in sympathy with the suspects after learning how evil Cassetti was, proposes the first solution, and Dr. Constantine and Poirot agree, although he will struggle with his conscience. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. [32] In its second weekend, the film took in $13.8million (a drop of 51.9%), finishing fifth, behind Justice League, Wonder, Thor: Ragnarok and Daddy's Home2. Mrs Christie makes an improbable tale very real, and keeps her readers enthralled and guessing to the end. WebMurder on the Orient Express. He learns McQueen was the son of the Armstrong case's District Attorney and was very fond of Mrs. Armstrong; Beddoes had been a British Army batman; Greta Ohlsson appears to have limited knowledge of English but has been to America; Countess Andrenyi is of German descent, and her maiden name is Grnwald (German for "Greenwood", Mrs. Armstrong's maiden name); Pierre Michel's daughter died five years earlier of scarlet fever; Colonel Arbuthnott, who displays knowledge of Armstrong's military decorations, reveals his plans to marry Miss Debenham once his divorce from his philandering [18] On 29 September 2016, the studio issued a press release announcing much of the cast, including Johnny Depp as Ratchett, Michelle Pfeiffer as Mrs Hubbard, Penlope Cruz as Pilar Estravados (a Spanish version of Greta Ohlsson, the name coming from a character in Hercule Poirot's Christmas),[19] Judi Dench as Princess Dragomiroff, Derek Jacobi as Masterman, Leslie Odom Jr. as Dr Arbuthnot, Daisy Ridley as Mary Debenham, Lucy Boynton as Countess Andrenyi, Tom Bateman as Monsieur Bouc,[20] Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Biniamino Marquez (a Cuban version of Antonio Foscarelli),[21] Josh Gad as Hector MacQueen,[22] Marwan Kenzari as Pierre Michel,[23] Sergei Polunin as Count Andrenyi,[24][25] Willem Dafoe as Cyrus Hardman,[26] and Olivia Colman as Hildegarde Schmidt. Roger Ebert gave the film three stars out of four, writing that it "provides a good time, high style, a loving salute to an earlier period of filmmaking". On the film's opening weekend, 51% of the audience was over the age of 35. The image is an example of a ticket confirmation email that AMC sent you when you purchased your ticket. "[39] Jo Livingstone of The New Republic praised the film's "stylized gorgeousness," but wrote that Branagh's change of "Poirot's fussiness into obsessive compulsive tendencies" was "less distinct and, ultimately, less interesting". In addition to self-incriminating revelations Poirot had managed to extract from Hardman, McQueen, Schmidt, and the Princess, the detective has deduced Countess Elena is actually Mrs. Armstrong's younger sister, Helena. Production Co: In 1934, famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot solves a theft at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. WebMurder on the Orient Express Summary Next Part 1 Chapter 1 At a train platform in Aleppo, Syria, a detective named Hercule Poirot boards a train to Istanbul. Hercule Poirot, the best detective in the world, decides to travel on the Orient Express. Hubbard rings her bell and tells Michel a man passed through her room. "[8], The reviewer in The Guardian of 12 January 1934 noted that the murder would have been "perfect" (i.e. wife is finalized, which he claims was what the cryptic discussion Poirot overheard in Istanbul was about. On vacation. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed eight times, his door locked from the inside. WebHaving concluded a case, detective Hercule Poirot (Albert Finney) settles into what he expects will be a relaxing journey home aboard the Orient Express. Regal "[44] Christopher Orr of The Atlantic said the film was "visually sumptuous yet otherwise inert" and summed up, "Murder on the Orient Express is not a bad movie per se, merely one that feels self-indulgent and thoroughly unnecessary. Poirot's timeline of passenger activities the night before indicates that Cassetti was murdered at about 1:15a.m., the time of the smashed watch and the scream. The uniform is later found, as is the red kimono in Poirot's own suitcase. Je me suis tromp." Antonio Foscarelli the Armstrongs' former chauffeur who had loved little Daisy. The film was a success at the box office, given its tight budget of $1.4 million,[10] earning $36 million in North America,[10][11] making it the 11th highest-grossing film of 1974. An avalanche derails the train's engine, stranding the passengers. A sequel titled Death on the Nile was released in 2022. 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