Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha Christieliterary work· published 1934
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***While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift.*** Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover that a wealthy American has been brutally stabbed to death in his private compartment. Incredibly, that compartment is locked from the inside. With no escape into the wintery landscape the killer must still be on board.
Adaptations (5)
Murder on the Orient Express has been adapted 5 times, across film, television film, and television series, from 1974 to 2017.
Murder on the Orient Express1974 · film · 128 min · dir. Sidney Lumet · IMDb ↗In 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.
Murder on the Orient Express2001 · television film · 100 min · dir. Carl Schenkel · IMDb ↗IMDb5.1Agatha Christie's classic whodunit speeds into the twenty-first century. World-famous sleuth Hercule Poirot has just finished a case in Istanbul and is returning home to London onboard the luxurious Orient Express. But, the train comes to a sudden halt when a rock slide blocks the tracks ahead. And all the thrills of riding the famous train come to a halt when a man discovered dead in his compartment, stabbed nine times. The train is stranded. No one has gotten on or gotten off. That can only mean one thing: the killer is onboard, and it is up to Hercule Poirot to find him.
Murder on the Orient Express2010 · television film · 89 min · dir. Philip Martin · IMDb ↗IMDb8.0Poirot investigates the murder of a shady American businessman stabbed in his compartment on the Orient Express when it is blocked by a blizzard in Croatia.
Murder on the Orient Express2017 · film · 114 min · dir. Kenneth Branagh · IMDb ↗Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
