Murder on the Orient Express: Book vs. Movie
Kenneth Branagh's 2017 film Murder on the Orient Express adapts Agatha Christie's book. Branagh also plays Hercule Poirot, investigating a passenger's death aboard a train stranded in the snow.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Year
- 1934
- Pages
- 288Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 6 hr 37 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Dan Stevens
- Series
- Hercule Poirot
Hercule Poirot boards the Orient Express expecting a journey home, not a case. When an American passenger is stabbed in his compartment and snow leaves the train stranded, Poirot must question the travelers before help arrives. Their accounts offer an abundance of clues, but the evidence points in so many directions that finding a consistent explanation becomes the real puzzle.
- Director
- Kenneth Branagh
- Writer
- Michael Green
- Year
- 2017
- Runtime
- 1 hr 54 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Kenneth Branagh, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench
- Genre
- crime, detective, drama, mystery
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Hercule Poirot hopes to rest aboard the Orient Express after completing a case, but a passenger's murder interrupts the journey. With the train derailed by an avalanche, he questions a carriage full of strangers whose stories conceal private wounds and competing loyalties. Finding the killer requires him to confront a crime that challenges his confidence in the line between right and wrong.
Other adaptations of this book
Murder on the Orient ExpressMovie · 1974Details
- Director
- Sidney Lumet
- Writer
- Anthony Shaffer, Paul Dehn
- Year
- 1974
- Runtime
- 2 hr 8 min
- Cast
- Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman
A threatening encounter with an American businessman gives Hercule Poirot little reason to expect a peaceful train journey. By morning the man is dead, and snow has trapped the Orient Express far from the police. With help from a railway official and a doctor, Poirot reconstructs the night's movements from interviews in which every passenger seems to have something to conceal.
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