Collingswood Public Library

Notes

• Originally released as a motion picture in 1974

• Based on the novel by Agatha Christie

• Special features: Agatha Christie: a portrait; 4 part series: making’Murder on the Orient Express’, All aboard, The ride, The passengers, The end of the line; theatrical trailer

• Director of photography, Geoffrey Unsworth; editor, Anne V. Coates; music composer, Richard Rodney Bennett; costume designer, Tony Walton; production designer, Tony Walton

• Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean Pierre Cassel, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Rachel Roberts, Richard Widmark, Michael York

• Hercule Poirot is a dapper detective, aboard the Orient Express, for whom murder-solving is a precise, intellectual exercise. When murder occurs, Poirot agrees to interview all aboard the famous trains Calais coach, hoping to find the killer of an American millionarie before the local police arrive

• MPAA rating: PG; some materials may not be suitable for children

• DVD; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 1.0 mono

• Soundtrack in English and French; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired