Murder on the Orient Express (TV Movie 2001)

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Alfred Molina

Hercule Poirot

Meredith Baxter

Mrs. Caroline Hubbard

Leslie Caron

Sra. Alvarado

Amira Casar

Helena von Strauss

Nicolas Chagrin

Pierre Michel

Tasha de Vasconcelos

Vera Rossakoff

David Hunt

Bob Arbuthnot

Adam James

William MacQueen

Dylan Smith

Tony Foscarelli

Peter Strauss

Mr. Samuel Ratchett

Fritz Wepper

Wolfgang Bouc

Kai Wiesinger

Philip von Strauss

Natasha Wightman

Mary Debenham

Louis Chamoun

Turk
(uncredited)

Jason Croot

Train Guard
(uncredited)

Director
- Carl Schenkel
Writers
- Agatha Christie
- Stephen Harrigan
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Trivia
Carl Schenkel's last film.

Goofs
In the next exterior shot after departure from Istanbul, a differently colored diesel locomotive is on the train. During the night scenes before the journey is interrupted, a steam locomotive is shown. Then when the train stops at the rockfall, the same EWS diesel is back on it, but now it's facing the other way (the EWS letters and the locomotive number 47744 have swapped places as seen from the same side of the train). Finally, when the journey resumes the next night, the steam locomotive is back.

Quotes
Mr. Samuel Ratchett: Mr. Perot?
Hercule Poirot: Perot? Like the American Presidential candidate? Certainly not! The name is Poirot! Hercule Poirot!

Connections
Referenced in David Suchet on the Orient Express (2010)

This isn't any good.

It's too modernized.

Get it?

No, seriously, they would have been better off sticking to Christie's original source and making it more like the 1974 film starring Albert Finney. (Which is what my TV guide had listed in place of this atrocity.) This made-for-TV version is with Alfred Molina, who lacks energy and umph. No wonder. The material is rather dire and the film is a complete mess. Someone references O.J. Simpson. Please.

Don't see this.

See the 1974 version.