Released by Paramount Pictures

Credits:

Director: Sidney Lumet
Producers: John Brabourne and Richard Goodwin
Screenplay: Paul Dehn
Novel by: Agatha Christie
Director of Photography: Geoffrey Unsworth

Editor: Anne V. Coates
Production Design and Costumes: Tony Walton
Music: Richard Rodney Bennett

Running Time: 128 minutes

Cast:

Hercule Poirot: Albert Finney
Mrs. Hubbard: Lauren Bacall
Bianchi: Martin Balsam
Greta: Ingrid Bergman
Countess Andrenyi: Jacqueline Bisset
Pierre: Jean-Pierre Cassel
Colonel Arbuthnot: Sean Connery
Beddoes: John Gielgud
Princess Dragomiroff: Wendy Hiller
McQueen: Anthony Perkins
Mary Debenham: Vanessa Redgrave
Hildegarde: Rachel Roberts
Ratchett: Richard Widmark
Count Andrenyi: Michael York
Hardman: Colin Blakely
Doctor: George Coulouris
Foscarelli: Denis Quilley

Genre:

Crime / Mystery

Synopsis:

Mysterious American financier Ratchett is travelling from Istanbul to Paris on the luxurious Orient Express train, he is found dead in his cabin, stabbed twelve times. Railway detective Bianchi appeals to celebrated Belgian detective Hercule Poirot to solve the crime while the train is trapped in a snowdrift, and before it reaches its destination. He painstakingly interviews those in the same railway car and through an elaborate re-creation aims to establish just who the killer is.

Release Date (USA):

22 November 1974

Academy Awards:

Winner of 1 Oscar (Best actress in a supporting role: Ingrid Bergman)

5 nominations (Best actor in a leading role: 

Albert Finney, Best cinemathography, Best 

costume design, Best music/original dramatic 

score, Best writing adapted from other material)

Budget:

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Links:

The Internet Movie Database - Murder on the Orient Express

Movies.com - Murder on the Orient Express

Rottentomatoes.com - Murder on the Orient Express

Hollywood.com - Murder on the Orient Express

Trailer links:

The Internet Movie Database - Windows Media Player trailer Slow