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Murder on the Orient Express

  • TV Movie
  • 2001
  • 1h 40m
IMDb RATING
5.1/10
1.1K
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Alfred Molina, Leslie Caron, and Peter Strauss in Murder on the Orient Express (2001)
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Hercule Poirot, now in modern times, investigates the famous crime on the famed train with a modern twist.Hercule Poirot, now in modern times, investigates the famous crime on the famed train with a modern twist.Hercule Poirot, now in modern times, investigates the famous crime on the famed train with a modern twist.

  • Director
    • Carl Schenkel
  • Writers
    • Agatha Christie
    • Stephen Harrigan
  • Stars
    • Alfred Molina
    • Meredith Baxter
    • Leslie Caron
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.1/10
    1.1K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Carl Schenkel
    • Writers
      • Agatha Christie
      • Stephen Harrigan
    • Stars
      • Alfred Molina
      • Meredith Baxter
      • Leslie Caron
    • 44User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
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    Alfred Molina
    Alfred Molina
    • Hercule Poirot
    Meredith Baxter
    Meredith Baxter
    • Mrs. Caroline Hubbard
    Leslie Caron
    Leslie Caron
    • Sra. Alvarado
    Amira Casar
    Amira Casar
    • Helena von Strauss
    Nicolas Chagrin
    • Pierre Michel
    Tasha de Vasconcelos
    Tasha de Vasconcelos
    • Vera Rossakoff
    David Hunt
    David Hunt
    • Bob Arbuthnot
    Adam James
    Adam James
    • William MacQueen
    Dylan Smith
    Dylan Smith
    • Tony Foscarelli
    Peter Strauss
    Peter Strauss
    • Mr. Samuel Ratchett
    Fritz Wepper
    Fritz Wepper
    • Wolfgang Bouc
    Kai Wiesinger
    Kai Wiesinger
    • Philip von Strauss
    Natasha Wightman
    Natasha Wightman
    • Mary Debenham
    Louis Chamoun
    • Turk
    • (uncredited)
    Jason Croot
    • Train Guard
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Carl Schenkel
    • Writers
      • Agatha Christie
      • Stephen Harrigan
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    • Trivia
      Carl Schenkel's last film.
    • Goofs
      In the next exterior shot after departure from Istanbul, a differently colored diesel locomotive is on the train. During the night scenes before the journey is interrupted, a steam locomotive is shown. Then when the train stops at the rockfall, the same EWS diesel is back on it, but now it's facing the other way (the EWS letters and the locomotive number 47744 have swapped places as seen from the same side of the train). Finally, when the journey resumes the next night, the steam locomotive is back.
    • Quotes

      Mr. Samuel Ratchett: Mr. Perot?

      Hercule Poirot: Perot? Like the American Presidential candidate? Certainly not! The name is Poirot! Hercule Poirot!

    • Connections
      Referenced in David Suchet on the Orient Express (2010)

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    2/10
    An insult to the memory of the original and a betrayal of Poirot
    Having seen the theatrical film version of "Murder on the Orient Express" when it was first released back in the 1970's, and having thoroughly enjoyed it, I was very skeptical about a remake of it, especially knowing that this production was made for CBS-TV and being giving its first airing on commercial television, instead of being done on PBS's "Mystery".

    My radar shot up the minute I heard John Leonard's favorable review of it on "CBS Sunday Morning". Leonard is an extremely articulate, pseudopoetic writer, and more often than not, a sardonic and harsh critic, and he does not endorse remakes of popular hits easily--except, perhaps, when they air on CBS, the network he just happens to work for.

    My fears were fully justified. This film is the most crass retelling of an Agatha Christie novel I have ever seen. The story has been updated from 1934 to the present in order to give Hercule Poirot the oh-so-trendy oppotunity to work on the case by plugging into a laptop. The glamorous aspects of the original film, with its elegant, stylish, upper-class look, are totally gone.

    So, instead of getting butlers and former army colonels as suspects, we get fitness experts and trainers who run around in T-shirts and sports coats, and who speak with Bronx accents. And Meredith Baxter, of all people, plays Mrs. Hubbard, the compulsive talker played so well in the original by the legendary Lauren Bacall. In fact, none of the performances here are memorable, especially when they have to compete against the likes of Ingrid Bergman, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Sean Connery, Richard Widmark (whose character is played here by Peter Strauss!), Martin Balsam, Jacqueline Bisset, Wendy Hiller, and Michael York. And Alfred Molina, while quite good as Hercule Poirot, still can't hold a candle to Albert Finney in the original, not to mention Peter Ustinov and David Suchet as later incarnations of the detective.

    Worse yet, while some seemingly small details have been left the same, some vitally important ones have been changed, one of them being the number of passengers, an important element in the original. Some of Poirot's deductions, rather than being revealed as surprises toward the end, are explained about two-thirds of the way through.

    But the vilest crime committed in this film, is the implication, at the end, that Poirot has been having, shall we say, a less-than-platonic relationship with a beautiful woman! (She appears out of nowhere in the final scene, smiling at him, and calling him "Hercule".) This, an utter desecration of the 'cold-fish" Poirot that we all know and love, is a betrayal as sacrilegeous as William Gillette having Sherlock Holmes fall in love in his 19th century stage play!

    Avoid this, unless you are masohistic, have a relative in the cast, or think that TV remakes are always better than the original films.
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    • Release date
      • April 22, 2001 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Вбивство в Східному експресі
    • Filming locations
      • Istanbul, Turkey(on location)
    • Production companies
      • Daniel H. Blatt Productions
      • Agatha Christie
      • Chorion
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 40 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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