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Murder on the Orient Express
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Murder on the Orient Express is a 1974 crime, mystery, and drama film directed by Sidney Lumet. The screenplay was written by Paul Dehn and Anthony Shaffer, based on a work by Agatha Christie. The cast includes Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, and Jacqueline Bisset. Production was led by producer John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne, with Geoffrey Unsworth serving as director of photography and Anne V. Coates as film editor. The film was produced in the United Kingdom, United States, and Australia, with filming taking place in Istanbul, Turkey.
The narrative is set in Istanbul, Yugoslavia, on the Orient Express, and in Long Island. The original languages include English, French, German, and Italian. Richard Rodney Bennett composed the score, and Tony Walton served as production designer. The film has a runtime of 128 minutes and was distributed by Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, StudioCanal, and Netflix.
The film received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and was named to the National Board of Review Top Ten Films. It was also nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor, Best Cinematography, and Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay. On IMDb, it holds a rating of 7.2 based on 74,818 votes, while TMDb lists a vote average of 7.147 from 1,572 votes. The production had a budget of 1,400,000 and generated revenue of 35,700,000.
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7.1In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
Cast
- Albert Finney as Hercule Poirot
- Lauren Bacall as Mrs. Harriet Belinda Hubbard
- Martin Balsam as Signor Bianchi
- Ingrid Bergman as Greta Ohlson
- Sean Connery as Colonel Arbuthnot
- Anthony Perkins as Hector MacQueen
Themes
- based on novel or book
- repayment
- detective
- passenger
- investigation
- orient express
- snow
- whodunit
- train
- murder mystery
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Sidney Lumet
- Screenplay by
- Paul Dehn
- Based on
- Murder on the Orient Express , 1934 novel, by Agatha Christie
- Produced by
- John Brabourne , Richard Goodwin
- Starring
- Lauren Bacall Martin Balsam Ingrid Bergman Jacqueline Bisset Jean-Pierre Cassel Sean Connery Albert Finney John Gielgud Wendy Hiller Anthony Perkins Vanessa Redgrave Rachel Roberts Richard Widmark Michael York George Coulouris Denis Quilley Colin Blakely
- Cinematography
- Geoffrey Unsworth
- Edited by
- Anne V. Coates
- Music by
- Richard Rodney Bennett
- Production companies
- G.W. Films Limited, EMI Films
- Distributed by
- Anglo-EMI Film Distributors
- Release date
- 21 November 1974 ( 1974-11-21 ) (UK)
- Running time
- 128 minutes
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $1.4 million
- Box office
- $37.7 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Australia
- Original language
- Swedish
- Followed by
- Death on the Nile
- Based on
- Murder on the Orient Express
- Main subject
- revenge
- Director
- Sidney Lumet
- Screenwriter
- Anthony Shaffer
- Cast member
- Vernon Dobtcheff
- Composer
- Richard Rodney Bennett
- Cinematographer
- Geoffrey Unsworth
- Narrative location
- Long Island
- Filming location
- Turkey
- Duration
- 128
- FilmAffinity ID
- 463461
- Distribution format
- broadcasting
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- Commons category
- Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)
- film editor
- Anne V. Coates
- title
- Murder on the Orient Express
- distributed by
- HBO Max
- production designer
- Tony Walton
- after a work by
- Agatha Christie
- costume designer
- Tony Walton
- publication date
- 1974-00-00
- set in environment
- train
- set in period
- 1935
- review score
- 89%
- box office
- 27634716
- capital cost
- 1400000
- different from
- Murder on the Orient Express
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Encyclopedic overview
Murder on the Orient Express is a 1974 British mystery film directed by Sidney Lumet, produced by John Brabourne and Richard Goodwin, and based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie.
The film has an all-star cast, and features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (Albert Finney), who is asked by a railway director (Martin Balsam) to investigate the murder of an American business tycoon (Richard Widmark) aboard the Orient Express train. The various suspects are portrayed by Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Vanessa Redgrave, Michael York, Rachel Roberts, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Perkins, Denis Quilley, Colin Blakely, and Wendy Hiller. The screenplay is by Paul Dehn.
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