Murder on the Orient Express (2001 film)

Murder on the Orient Express (2001 film): Murder on the Orient Express (2001 film)

Written by Stephen Harrigan

Directed by Carl Schenkel

Starring Alfred Molina
Meredith Baxter
Leslie Caron
Peter Strauss

Country of origin United States

Language(s) English

Production

Producer(s) Marion Rosenberg

Cinematography Rex Maidment

Running time 100 minutes

Distributor Ardustry Home Entertainment LLC

Murder on the Orient Express is a 2001 made-for-television movie, based on the 1934 novel Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, featuring Hercule Poirot. This version is set in the present day and has a smaller cast than the novel. The original music score was composed by Christopher Franke.

Contents

1 Plot

2 Cast

3 Other versions

4 External links

Plot

Hercule Poirot is travelling on the Orient Express. While on the journey, Poirot meets a very close friend Bouc, who works for the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. The train is stopped when a landslide blocks the line on the second night out from Istanbul, and American millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett is found stabbed to death the next morning.

Since no footprints are visible around the train and the doors to the other cars were locked, it seems that the murderer must still be among the passengers in Ratchett's car. Poirot and Bouc work together to solve the case. They are aided by Pierre Michel, the middle-aged French conductor of the car.

A key to the solution is Ratchett's revealed involvement in the Armstrong tragedy in America several years earlier, in which a baby was kidnapped and then murdered. (The fictitious Armstrong case was apparently inspired by the real-life kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh's baby son.)

Cast

Alfred Molina .... Hercule Poirot

Meredith Baxter .... Mrs. Caroline Hubbard

Leslie Caron .... Sra. Alvarado

Amira Casar .... Helena von Strauss

Nicolas Chagrin .... Pierre Michel

Tasha de Vasconcelos .... Vera Rossakoff

David Hunt .... Bob Arbuthnot

Adam James .... William MacQueen

Dylan Smith .... Tony Foscarelli

Peter Strauss .... Mr. Samuel Ratchett

Fritz Wepper .... Wolfgang Bouc

Kai Wiesinger .... Philip von Strauss

Natasha Wightman .... Mary Debenham

Other versions

Murder on the Orient Express is a 1974 film with Albert Finney as Poirot.

In December 2010 the series Agatha Christie's Poirot, featuring David Suchet as Poirot, aired their own adaptation of this story.

External links

Murder on the Orient Express at the Internet Movie Database

Murder on the Orient Express at AllRovi

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Creator
Agatha Christie

Characters
Hercule Poirot • Arthur Hastings • Sven Hjerson • James Harold Japp • Ariadne Oliver • Colonel Race

Books

Novels

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) • The Murder on the Links (1923) • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) • The Big Four (1927) • The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928) • Peril at End House (1932) • Lord Edgware Dies (1933) • Murder on the Orient Express (1934) • Three Act Tragedy (1934) • Death in the Clouds (1935) • The A.B.C. Murders (1936) • Cards on the Table (1936) • Murder in Mesopotamia (1936) • Death on the Nile (1937) • Dumb Witness (1937) • Appointment with Death (1938) • Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1938) • Sad Cypress (1940) • One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1940) • Evil Under the Sun (1941) • Five Little Pigs (1942) • The Hollow (1946) • Taken at the Flood (1948) • Mrs McGinty's Dead (1952) • After the Funeral (1953) • Hickory Dickory Dock (1955) • Dead Man's Folly (1956) • Cat Among the Pigeons (1959) • The Clocks (1963) • Third Girl (1966) • Hallowe'en Party (1969) • Elephants Can Remember (1972) • Curtain (1975)

Short story
collections

Poirot Investigates (1924) • Murder in the Mews (1937) • The Regatta Mystery (1939) • The Labours of Hercules (1947) • The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (1948) • Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (1950) • The Under Dog and Other Stories (1951) • The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960) • Double Sin and Other Stories (1961) • Poirot's Early Cases (1974) • Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (1991) • The Harlequin Tea Set (1997) • While the Light Lasts and Other Stories (1997)

Film adaptations

Austin Trevor

Alibi (1931) • Black Coffee (1931) • Lord Edgware Dies (1934)

Albert Finney

Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

Peter Ustinov

Death on the Nile (1978) • Evil Under the Sun (1982) • Thirteen at Dinner (1985) • Dead Man's Folly (1986) • Murder in Three Acts (1986) • Appointment with Death (1988)

Other

The Alphabet Murders (1965) • Murder on the Orient Express (2001)

Plays
Alibi (1928) • Black Coffee (1930)

Television
adaptations

David Suchet

Agatha Christie's Poirot (Series One (1989) • Series Two (1990) • Series Three (1991) • Series Four (1992) • Series Five (1993) • Series Six (1995-96) • Series Seven (2000) • Series Eight (2001) • Series Nine (2003-04) • Series Ten (2006) • Series Eleven (2008) • Series Twelve (2009-10)

Other

Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple (2004-05)

Video games
Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express (2006) • Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile (2007) • Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun (2007) • Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders (2009)

See also
Parodies and references • Radio adaptations • Tropes in Agatha Christie's novels • Miss Marple

Category

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Categories:
American television films
Crime drama films
Crime thriller films
Films based on Hercule Poirot books
2001 television films
Rail transport films
Television film stubs

Murder on the Orient Express (2001 film)
Written by	Stephen Harrigan
Directed by	Carl Schenkel
Starring	Alfred Molina Meredith Baxter Leslie Caron Peter Strauss
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
Production
Producer(s)	Marion Rosenberg
Cinematography	Rex Maidment
Running time	100 minutes
Distributor	Ardustry Home Entertainment LLC

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