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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300216723
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6300216721
Label: Paramount
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageAnalogFrenchOriginal LanguageAnalogGermanOriginal LanguageAnalogItalianOriginal LanguageAnalogSwedishOriginal LanguageAnalogTurkishOriginal LanguageAnalog
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: February 13, 1998
Running Time: 128 minutes
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: November 24, 1974
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
Just the name "Orient Express" conjures images of a bygone era. Add an all-star cast (including Sean Connery, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, and Lauren Bacall, to name a few) and Agatha Christie's delicious plot and how can you go wrong? Particularly if you add in Albert Finney as Christie's delightfully persnickety sleuth, Hercule Poirot. Someone has knocked off nasty Richard Widmark on this train trip and, to Poirot's puzzlement, everyone seems to have a motive--just the setup for a terrific whodunit. Though it seems like an ensemble film, director Sidney Lumet gives each of his stars their own solo and each makes the most of it. Bergman went so far as to win an Oscar for her role. But the real scene-stealer is the ever-reliable Finney as the eccentric detective who never misses a trick. --Marshall Fine
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
I'd heard about this movie and had great expectations but was sadly disappointed in the performance by Albert Finney. With Poirot movies, he explains the murder at the end and so his spoken words are vital to the film. Albert Finney's voice modulation (with a profound American 'accent') was extremely difficult and mostly impossible to understand. Oddly, he did not even attempt a French or European accent, but only relied on changing the modulation of his voice - it was very odd and disappointing. ... Read More
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The film begins at the Armstrong home in 1930. Their baby Daisy was kidnapped in the middle of the night. The ransom was paid but Daisy was found slain. Five years later Hercule Poirot is returning from a job. Others arrive on the ferry to Istanbul and the Orient-Express train to Paris. The scenes and costumes provide entertainment and padding. [Would those peddlers be allowed in the train station?] The train travels through the countryside while the people dine and converse. Mr. Ratchet has been threatened, ... Read More
Rating: -
This movie drags on for the first 35 minutes or so. They could have easily condensed introducing the enormous ensemble of characters into 10 minutes or so.
The first 6 minutes does not have any dialogue. However, it contains important information for the movie. You may want to watch it twice, so that you can catch everything that is going on in the introduction.
The only things that kept me from turning this movie off in the beginning were the costumes and the sets. This movie ... Read More
Rating:  -
This movie is a spectacle to the eye. Scenery and costumes had a definite Art Deco flavor, and the special effects were perfectly combined with one of the greatest casts ever assembled.
The music for the opening credits is polished and sophisticated. The train theme is quite unique and lively.
The only negatives are Mr. Finney's makeup and portrayal, which seemed overly exaggerated and hammy. David Suchet and Peter Ustinov gave more subtle performances with a wider range of emotions ... Read More
Rating: -
Being a great Agatha Christe fan of her written word it is with great pleasure that I have begun colleting her works to be viewed. A business man with a very shady past is found murdered on the Orient Express and that master of the whodunnit, Hercule Poirot, is there to solve the mystery and identify the guility person before the train reaches the international border crossing point and the local police take over; he agrees to interview the passengers in the Calais Coach to accomplish this. In true Agatha Christe ... Read More
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