The movie featured a threat against Poirot’s life, after his resolution to the case. The Greta Ohlsson character was younger in this film. The brains behind Rachett’s murder turned out to be a different character. Rachett aka Casetti became a man who desired forgiveness for his kidnapping and murder of young Daisy. The characters of Doctor Constantine (a Greek doctor who volunteered to assist Poirot) and an American private detective named Cyrus Hardman were combined into a new character – an American obstetrician named. In this adaptation, screenwriter Stewart Harcourt decided to allow Poirot to witness the stoning of an adulterous Turkish woman. All three movies featured changes from the novel. To protect the passengers from the Yugoslavia police, Monsieur Bouc hires Poirot to investigate the American’s murder.Ĭonsidering this film turned out to be the third, well-known adaptation of Christie’s novel, there were bound to be comparisons with the previous films – especially the famous 1974 version. As it turned out, Poirot discovered that Rachett was a criminal named Casetti, who was guilty of kidnapping and murdering one Daisy Armstrong, the five year-old daughter of a wealthy Anglo-American couple. After the Orient Express becomes caught in a snowdrift in the middle of Yugoslavia, Rachett is found murdered in his compartment – stabbed to death twelve times. The latter tries to hire Poirot’s services to protect him from unseen enemies but the detective refuses due to a dislike toward the American. Among the passengers are Colonel Arbuthnot, Miss Debenham and a sinister American businessman named Samuel Rachett. Thanks to an old acquaintance named Monsieur Bouc, a director of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (which owned the Orient Express lines), the detective manages to book passage aboard the famed continental train, the Orient Express. There, Poirot witnesses the stoning of a Turkish woman for adultery with a Colonel Arbuthnot and a Miss Mary Debenham.

Upon completion of said case, Poirto travels over to Istanbul, the first step of his journey back to England. But this latest version starred David Suchet (considered by many to be the ultimate Hercule Poirot) in the starring role.ĭirected by Philip Martin and written by Stewart Harcourt, 'MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS' opened with Hercule berating a British Army officer, who has been revealed to be a liar in regard to a case. Although there have been two other well known adaptations of the novel – the famous 1974 movie that starred Albert Finney and the 2001 teleplay that starred Alfred Molina. 'MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS' (2010) ReviewĪfter being on the air for two decades, 'Agatha Christie’s POIROT' decided to air its own version of the mystery writer’s 1934 novel, 'Murder on the Orient Express'.

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