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- 1974
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 8 m
- 1974
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 8 m
Summary In December 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
Directed By: Sidney Lumet
Written By: Agatha Christie, Paul Dehn, Anthony Shaffer
- 1974
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 8 m
- 1974
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 8 m
Murder on the Orient Express
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7.3
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Summary In December 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
Directed By: Sidney Lumet
Written By: Agatha Christie, Paul Dehn, Anthony Shaffer
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
63
67% Positive
4 Reviews
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17% Mixed
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1 Review
17% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
63
67% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
17% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
17% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Like the lovely, extravagantly overemphasized nineteen-thirties' costumes and production designed by Tony Walton, Murder on the Orient Express is much less a literal re-creation of a type of thirties movie than an elaborate and witty tribute that never for a moment condescends to the subject.
No matter how good the performer you can’t escape Christie’s leisurely approach to characterisation — simple concoctions of quirk, guilt and red herring. But Lumet is having loads of credible fun with the formula, keeping up a genuine sense of claustrophobia in this isolated railway car surrounded by crisp white snow.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 37 User Ratings
7.3
76% Positive
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
19% Mixed
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5% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 37 User Ratings
7.3
76% Positive
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
19% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
5% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
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Elegant and stylish in the best Agatha Christie tradition--a thoroughly entertaining if poky whodunit.
Murder on the Orient Express is a splendidly entertaining movie of the sort that isn’t made anymore: It’s a classical whodunit, with all the clues planted and all of them visible, and it’s peopled with a large and expensive collection of stars.
This all-star version of an Agatha Christie antiquity promises to be a sumptuous spread, and so it is, but not as tasty as one had hoped.
Murder on the Orient Express falls down so badly as escapist entertainment that it is as if it were designed to prove the proposition that movies and mysteries don't mix.
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations
BAFTA Awards
• 3 Wins & 10 Nominations
Evening Standard British Film Awards
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
