Murder on the Orient Express [4K Ultra HD Blu-ray]

Director: Sidney Lumet Sidney Lumet

Overview

Like many of Agatha Christie's mysteries, Murder on the Orient Express is predicated on an actual event, in this case the Lindbergh kidnapping. In the movie, everyone on board the Orient Express seems to have concluded that hateful financier Ratchett (Richard Widmark) was behind the abduction and murder of the infant daughter of a famed aviatrix. Thus, when Ratchett is himself found murdered, everyone is suspect. Normally, the police would handle the investigation, but the train has been stalled by a snowslide halfway between Istanbul and Paris. Thus, it's up to the insufferable but brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (an unrecognizable Albert Finney) to activate his "little grey cells" and determine who's guilty. Among the suspects are colorful characters played by Lauren Bacall, Jacqueline Bisset, Sean Connery, Wendy Hiller, John Gielgud, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, and Ingrid Bergman, whose performance won her a third Academy Award. (In her acceptance speech, Bergman apologized for her win, insisting that Day for Night's Valentina Cortese deserved the prize.) The first and best in a long line of contemporary Christie adaptations, the film scores on atmosphere, period detail, and richness of characterization.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/24/2024
UPC:	0738329267834
Original Release:	1974
Source:	Kl Studio Classics
Language:	English
Format:	Blu-ray
Sales rank:	250

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Albert Finney	Hercule Poirot
Lauren Bacall	Mrs. Hubbard
Ingrid Bergman	Greta Ohlsson
Sean Connery	Col. Arbuthnot
Martin Balsam	Bianchi
Jacqueline Bisset	Countess Andrenyi
Jean-Pierre Cassel	Pierre Paul Michel
John Gielgud	Beddoes
Wendy Hiller	Princess Dragomiroff
Anthony Perkins	Hector McQueen
Vanessa Redgrave	Mary Debenham
Rachel Roberts	Hildegarde Schmidt
Richard Widmark	Ratchett
Michael York	Count Andrenyi
Colin Blakely	Dick Hardman
George Coulouris	Dr. Constantine
Jeremy Lloyd	A.D.C.
Vernon Dobtcheff	Concierge
John Moffatt	Chief Attendant
George Silver	Chef
Denis Quilley	Foscarelli
David De Keyser	Turkish Ticket Collector
Leon Lissek	Dining Car Steward
Robert Rietty	Loudspeaker
Vic Tablian	Hawker
Leslie Soden	Turkish pianist in the hotel
Nubar Terziyan	Traveling Salesman
Richard Rodney Bennett	Composer

Technical Credits

Paul Dehn

Agatha Christie

Anthony Shaffer

Sidney Lumet	Director
Paul Dehn	Screenwriter
John Brabourne	Producer
Richard Goodwin	Producer
Agatha Christie	Screenwriter
Anthony Shaffer	Screenwriter
Charles Staffell	Special Effects
Jonathan Bates	Sound Effects
Peter Handford	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Bill Rowe	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Jeremy Hume	Sound Effects
David Stephenson	Sound Effects
Lord John Brabourne	Producer