Assassinio sull'Orient Express

Titolo originale: Murder on the Orient Express
Regia: Sidney Lumet |
Anno: 1974
Origine: United Kingdom |
Generi: Dramma Thriller Mistero
Tag: based on novel or book | repayment | detective | passenger | investigation | orient express | snow | whodunit | train | murder mystery | 1930s |
Cast: Albert Finney | Lauren Bacall | Martin Balsam | Ingrid Bergman | Sean Connery | Anthony Perkins | Jean-Pierre Cassel | Wendy Hiller | Vanessa Redgrave | Jacqueline Bisset | John Gielgud | Richard Widmark | Michael York | Colin Blakely | Rachel Roberts | George Coulouris | Denis Quilley | Vernon Dobtcheff | Jeremy Lloyd | John Moffatt | Vic Tablian | Leon Lissek | Andrew Andreas | David de Keyser |

Il detective Hercule Poirot deve rientrare a Londra da Istanbul, dove si trova. Qui incontra il suo vecchio amico Bianchi, che lavora come dirigente della Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits e gli trova un posto sul vagone-letto di prima classe dell'Orient Express. Durante la seconda notte del viaggio il treno attraversa una regione dei Balcani sotto un'abbondante nevicata e la mattina seguente uno dei viaggiatori, il ricco uomo d'affari americano Samuel Edward Ratchett, viene trovato morto nel suo scompartimento, ancora chiuso dall'interno, ucciso da dodici colpi di pugnale. Il treno è bloccato dalla neve e Poirot, su richiesta di Bianchi, assume le indagini del caso, con la collaborazione del dott. Constantine, un medico che si trovava a bordo di un'altra carrozza del treno.

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Colonel Arbuthnot praises the trial by jury system and how being judged by twelve people is the [...] D
When Poirot is bantering with the British officer on the Istanbul ferry, he reports feeling no [...] D
In her 1991 autobiography, Vanessa Redgrave described her outrage when Sidney Lumet suggested t [...] D
Although the producers agreed to all of the other suggestions from casting director Dyson Lovel [...] D
The final toast between the principals served two purposes: After two hours of role playing, it [...] D
Colin Blakey and Denis Quilley would appear in another Agatha Christie film adaptation, Evil Un [...] D
The actual Orient Express trains were no longer in existence at the time of shooting. However, [...] D
After Poirot finds the white kimono in his luggage, and brings it into the car, where Bianchi, [...] D
84-year-old Agatha Christie attended the movie premiere in November 1974. It was the only movie [...] D
Anthony Perkins and Martin Balsam had previously appeared together in Psyco (1960). D
In the murder sequence, Princess Dragomiroff (Wendy Hiller) can be seen dropping the mysterious [...] D
Sound mixer Peter Handford pioneered the use of radio mikes in a feature film on this productio [...] D
A set of lyrics was composed for the main title theme but was never used. The first line went, [...] D
Lauren Bacall and Ingrid Bergman were famous for starring alongside Humphrey Bogart in many 194 [...] D
The film takes place in December 1935. D
Agatha Christie stayed at Room 411 at the Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul, Turkey, where she alle [...] D
A ticket in 1896 from Constantinople to Paris cost approximately $1,800.00 (inflation adjusted [...] D
In the final flashback scene, five of the thirteen conspirators (Mrs. Hubbard, Mary Debenham, C [...] D
After nearly forty years' work in English-language movies, Ingrid Bergman's Swedish accent was [...] D
The Orient Express was the first long-distance train to operate in Europe with sleeping and din [...] D
Mrs. Hubbard mentions several times that she was married twice. Lauren Bacall was really marrie [...] D
The poem that the Princess' maid reads aloud is "Kennst Du das Land" by German poet Johann Wolf [...] D
The photo gallery on the German DVD by Kinowelt includes one photo hinting at a scene not used [...] D
After several disappointing movie adaptations, Agatha Christie initially refused to sell the mo [...] D
There is a frequent mention of the place "Shimoga" in this movie. At the time that the novel wa [...] D
During promotion and publicity junkets, many of the stars admitted, independently of one anothe [...] D
Sean Connery appeared in this movie with Albert Finney, who joined the James Bond film franchis [...] D
With so many suspects in the plot, and none of them expendable, director Sidney Lumet decided t [...] D
Albert Finney's summation at the movie's climax runs eight pages. D
Upon accepting her Oscar for this movie, Ingrid Bergman apologized to fellow actress Valentina [...] D
Lauren Bacall and Sir John Gielgud appeared in another Agatha Christie movie: Appuntamento con [...] D
When she has finished giving her evidence, Poirot (Albert Finney) thanks Mrs. Hubbard (Lauren B [...] D
In 1974, John Gielgud also worked with Ingrid Bergman when he directed her on-stage in "The Con [...] D
Although the film opens with a wealth of onscreen text during the credits and subsequent montag [...] D
The Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul, Turkey was one of several hotels that the luxury train compa [...] D
Ingrid Bergman played the title role in Il segreto della vecchia signora (1973), and Lauren Bac [...] D
Culture clash and multiple language barriers are an essential thread of the story's fabric; ind [...] D
In 1929, a westbound Orient Express train was stuck in snow for five days at Çerkezköy, [...] D
This movie boasts fifty-eight Oscar nominations and fourteen wins (not including two honorary w [...] D
When Paramount Pictures acquired the U.S. distribution rights, it was necessary to create new m [...] D
In contrast to the novel, in which the passengers admit to Poirot's accusation, and then expand [...] D
In the novel, there was no way for Agatha Christie to specify which twelve hands delivered the [...] D
The mention of a woman falling to her demise is eeriely prescient of the death of American Kiki [...] D
Wendy Hiller, Vanessa Redgrave, and Colin Blakely appeared in A Man for All Seasons (1966). D
In bed, Beddoes (John Gielgud) reads the fictional novel "Love's Captive" by Mrs. Arabella Rich [...] D
Mafioso Casetti/Ratchett masterminded the kidnapping of the Armstrong baby, but his henchman co [...] D
Virtually all of Ingrid Bergman's Oscar-winning performance is contained in one scene: her inte [...] D
While at first glance a traditional murder mystery, the resolution of this movie is one of few [...] D
Richard Rodney Bennett's Academy Award-nominated score is a tour de force, the centerpiece of w [...] D
Poirot's summation scene, from his laying out of the evidence on the table to his final line of [...] D
Albert Finney, who was then 37 years old, was the third choice for the much-older Poirot. The r [...] D
Wendy Hiller was not first choice for the role of Princess Dragomiroff. Director Sidney Lumet i [...] D
The saloon car in which the final scene takes place is modeled after the 1929 Côte d'Azur Pu [...] D
Since Albert Finney required many hours of make-up procedures before shooting each day, and bec [...] D
Vanessa Redgrave (Mary Debenham) later played Agatha Christie in Il segreto di Agatha Christie [...] D
Five of the primary cast members were starring in stage plays by night as this movie was being [...] D
The youngest of the twenty cast members was Jacqueline Bisset (Countess Andrenyi), who was 30 y [...] D
A steam engine and four cars, the Baggage, Restaurant, Sleeping, and Pullman, made up he film's [...] D
Beddoes is bringing Ratchett his amber moon for breakfast when he finds him murdered. An Amber [...] D
According to Sidney Lumet, Paramount Pictures decided to release this movie on a Sunday in only [...] D
Of the seventeen cast members, four are American, one is French, and one is Swedish. The eleven [...] D
Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Perkins, and Jean-Pierre Cassel appeared in Le piace Brahms? (1961). D
Seven of the thirteen characters from the Calais Coach can be seen in the kidnapping sequence t [...] D
There are two references to Alfred Hitchcock's La signora scompare (1938), in which Vanessa Red [...] D
Academy Award winner Wendy Hiller was only 62 when she played the elderly Russian aristocrat, P [...] D
One of the earliest clues that something is not usual is when it is stated that the sleeping co [...] D
The Cordon Bleu chef aboard the Orient Express, seen preparing elaborate gourmet meals for the [...] D
The luxury food that is inspected and carried aboard the train early in the movie had been stol [...] D
John Moffatt (Chief Attendant) provided the voice of Poirot in the BBC audio dramatization of " [...] D
Throughout the 20th century, Compagnie International Wagon-Lit ran multiple routes that used "O [...] D
Although Anthony Perkins mentions Persia, in March, 1935 (some months before the film timeline) [...] D
Albert Finney, Vanessa Redgrave, Ingrid Bergman and John Gieguld appeared for certain scenes on [...] D
Colonel Arbuthnot uses the phrase "three-pipe yarn," a takeoff on a phrase used by another fict [...] D
When Ratchett fails to answer the door on the morning after his murder, Pierre (Jean Pierre Cas [...] D
The "fourteen thousand dollars and twenty-seven cents" that Greta Ohlsson raises in America wou [...] D
There are two musical references to Shirley Temple movies: (1) in the restaurant where Bianchi [...] D
During the murder sequence, John Gielgud becomes so carried away in his knifing of Ratchett tha [...] D
As in Psyco (1960), Anthony Perkins plays a man who lost his mother at an early age, and who ha [...] D
At the station in Istanbul, a cart full of oranges is deliberately upset by the driver operatin [...] D
The first of four Agatha Christie movie and television productions featuring Sir John Gielgud. [...] D
The Orient Express in the 1930s as now, with the exception of twenty-first century train suites [...] D
This movie may hold the record for the largest number of major acting awards for its cast. Of t [...] D
In an interview, co-producer Richard Goodwin said that Vanessa Redgrave "would spend all of her [...] D
Three cast members, Colin Blakely, Denis Quilley, and George Silver, appeared in other Agatha C [...] D
One of only two plots that Agatha Christie derived from a real-life event. The other was Assass [...] D
The sedative brought in by Sir John Gielgud is said to be Valerian. Valerian root is an old her [...] D
Sir Sean Connery had appeared in another movie that featured the Orient Express: A 007, dalla R [...] D
In the opening moments, a local shepherd is seen. He wears a traditional woolen cloak that has [...] D
Richard Rodney Bennett was originally hired to arrange 1930s tunes for the soundtrack, but pers [...] D
Richard Widmark and Lauren Bacall appeared together in The Cobweb. D
Vernon Dobtcheff (The Concierge) has appeared alongside two different Poirots: Albert Finney he [...] D
The final scene, in which Poirot relates his solution to the crime, had to be shot countless ti [...] D
The character of Bianchi, played by Martin Balsam, was originally conceived in the novel as a F [...] D
There are many re-pairings from several other movies: Martin Balsam and Anthony Perkins were in [...] D
During principal photography, shooting schedules were intricately plotted, as three actors and [...] D
When this story takes place, the Orient Express and CIWL, Compagnie Inernationale des Wagons-Li [...] D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2005 list of 250 movies nominated for AFI's 100 Ye [...] D
Agatha Christie's story was inspired by the notorious kidnapping, and subsequent murder, of fam [...] D
One clue to the mystery's solution is the fact that several of the passengers in the Calais Coach, n [...] D