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Richard Rodney Bennett's Academy Award-nominated score is a tour de force, the centerpiece of which is his extended "Orient Express" suite. Fulfilling director Sidney Lumet's intention of making the locomotive a focal character in the story, the piece begins as the train pulls out of the Istanbul station and continues uninterrupted, often under dialogue, for nearly twenty minutes until the moment Poirot recognizes the stillness brought on by the snowdrift and "the night of red herrings" comes to an end. Ironically, following an early screening of this movie, legendary composer Bernard Herrmann accosted Bennett for his decision to primarily use major as opposed to minor chords in his score. While Herrmann thought the main theme should have emphasized the fact that "these people were travelling on a train to their doom", Bennett defended his choice, stating that Lumet wanted the music to reflect not the crime, but the lush, glistening and extravagant era the movie hoped to evoke.

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