Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

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Murder on the Orient Express is a 1974 film conducted — er, directed — by Sidney Lumet, featuring a first-class-car-load of stars, including Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Anthony Perkins, Jacqueline Bisset, Michael York, and Wendy Hiller. The flick is a highly faithful adaptation of Agatha Christie's famous 1934 classic.

Albert Finney stars as Hercule Poirot, a mustachioed detective settling in for a leisurely train ride on the Orient Express. But for one mysterious fellow passenger, the ride proves to be a one-way-ticket to murder town. Tasked with capturing a vicious killer on the snowed-in locomotive before the local police can railroad someone, Poirot finds himself untangling a web of sinister clues, which all point to connection to an infamous crime from years ago.

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Fun fact: Christie herself appreciated the movie's faithfulness, although she allegedly wished that Finney's facial hair was more fulsome.

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