Murder on the Orient Express

This diabolically clever, elegantly escapist Agatha Christie whodunit boasts an incredible international cast of some of the most wonderfully eccentric characters ever created. Albert Finney is the dapper Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, for whom murder-solving is a precise, intellectual exercise. Poirot agrees to interview all aboard the famous train’s Calais coach, hoping to find the killer of an American millionaire before the local police arrive.  But solving this baffling mystery isn’t going to be easy, and danger lurks behind every twist and turn of the fiendish plot.  Among the all-star suspects: Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Rachel Roberts, Richard Widmark and Michael York. Directed by the great Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men; Dog Day Afternoon), packed with sparkling dialogue and visually rich in texture, this incomparable thriller received six Academy Award nominations, with Ingrid Bergman winning Best Supporting Actress for her role as the slightly off-center, Bible-quoting Swedish missionary. (Directed by Sidney Lumet, 1974, UK, 128 mins., Rated PG)