MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (1974): A Lauren Bacall Classic

Lauren Bacall boards the Orient Express

MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (1974) will be airing tonight on Turner Classic Movies at 2:15 am EST as TCM continues to celebrate Lauren Bacall every Wednesday night in Spetember.

Sidney Lumet's 1974 film adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic crime novel Murder on the Orient Express is on of the few versions of her stories of which the author approved. Lumet (director of Katharine Hepburn masterpiece LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (1962)) assembled an all-star cast for this film, headed by Albert Finney in the role of detective Hercule Poirot.

Poirot: “For three days, all these people, these total strangers, meet in a single train whose engine controls their destiny.”

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