Movie summary: "Like many of Agatha Christie' s mysteries\, Murder on the Orient Express is predicated on an actual even t\, in this case the Lindbergh kidnapping. In the movie\, everyone on boar d the Orient Express seems to have concluded that hateful financier Ratche tt (Richard Widmark) was behind the abduction and murder of the infant dau ghter of a famed aviatrix. Thus\, when Ratchett is himself found murdered\ , everyone is suspect. Normally\, the police would handle the investigatio n\, but the train has been stalled by a snowslide halfway between Istanbul and Paris. Thus\, it's up to the insufferable but brilliant Belgian detec tive Hercule Poirot (an unrecognizable Albert Finney) to activate his "lit tle grey cells" and determine who's guilty. Among the suspects are colorfu l characters played by Lauren Bacall\, Martin Balsam\, Jacqueline Bisset\, Sean Connery\, Wendy Hiller\, John Gielgud\, Anthony Perkins\, Vanessa Re dgrave\, and Ingrid Bergman\, whose performance won her a third Academy Aw ard. The first and best in a long line of contemporary Christie adaptation s\, the film scores on atmosphere\, period detail\, and richness of charac terization." ~ Hal Erickson\, Rovi
\nOriginally released as a motion picture in 1974.
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