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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Murder on the Orient Express [videorecording] / Paramount Pictures Corporation in association with Nat Cohen presents a John Brabourne-Richard Goodwin production ; produced by John Brabourne and Richard Goodwin ; screenplay by Paul Dehn ; directed by Sidney Lumet.

Edition:

Widescreen presentation.

Publisher, Date:

Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount, [2004]

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

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 millionaire before the local police arrive.

Target Audience Note:

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

Series:

Widescreen DVD collection.

Subjects:

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 -- Film and video adaptations.

Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character) -- Drama.

Private investigators -- Drama.

Murder -- Investigation -- Drama.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Brabourne, John.

Dehn, Paul, 1912-1976.

Lumet, Sidney, 1924-2011.

Finney, Albert, 1936-2019.

Bacall, Lauren, 1924-2014

Balsam, Martin, 1919-1996.

Bergman, Ingrid, 1915-1982.

Bisset, Jacqueline, 1944-

Cassel, Jean-Pierre, 1932-2007.

Connery, Sean.

Gielgud, John, 1904-2000.

Hiller, Wendy, 1912-2003.

Unsworth, Geoffrey, 1914-1978.

Coates, Anne V.

Bennett, Richard Rodney.

Walton, Tony, 1934-2022

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. Murder on the Orient Express.

Goodwin, Richard B., 1934-

Paramount Pictures Corporation.

Other Title:

Title on container: Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express.

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.

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

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

ISBN:

0792198247

9780792198246

Publisher Number:

08790

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

193992

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Murder o

Medium:

[videorecording]