Like all great fictional detectives, Belgian (don’t you dare call him French) sleuth Hercule Poirot has a tendency to be in the right place at the right time. In Murder on the Orient Express, as one may surmise from the title, it’s on board the lavish transcontinental train. Sidney Lumet directed the 1974 film adaptation of Agatha Christie’s classic from the 1930s, in which a wealthy American is murdered and there’s no shortage of suspects from various nationalities and social classes. Among the characters are a Russian princess, an English colonel and a Swedish missionary, while the luminous cast included everyone from Lauren Bacall and Sean Connery to John Gielgud and Ingrid Bergman, who won an Oscar for her role.
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