29 July 2008
Death on the Nile & Murder on the Orient Express
Posted by Miroslav under: Movie .
I recently watched two great movies based on the famous Agatha Christie novels; “Murder on the Orient Express” (first published in 1934) in and “Death on the Nile” (first published in 1937).
“Murder on the Orient Express”, released by EMI and Paramount Pictures in late 1974 and Directed by Sidney Lumet, contains what is no doubt the largest collection of stars from that era; Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Michael York, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Jacqueline Bisset, Richard Widmark, Martin Balsam, Rachel Roberts, Wendy Hiller, Denis Quilley, Colin Blakely, Jean-Pierre Cassel and George Coulouris.
It is also the only film adaption of a Christie novel to star Albert Finney as detective Hercule Poirot, with the role being played by Peter Ustinov in other films.
Murder on the Orient Express (IMDB - wikipedia)
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Released by Paramount Pictures in 1978, “Death on the Nile” was the first Poirot movie to start Peter Ustinov in the lead role and it also continues the “all-star” cast theme of the previous movie. This time the list of stars being directed by John Guillermin included; Peter Ustinov, Mia Farrow, Bette Davis, Maggie Smith, Angela Lansbury, Olivia Hussey, David Niven, Jon Finch, Jack Warden and Jane Birkin.
Death on the Nile (IMDB - wikipedia)
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“Murder on the Orient Express” was the more successful of the two movies, bringing in $25 million in the US versus only $14.5 million for “Death on the Nile”. I’d have to agree with those figures as “Murder on the Orient Express” is definitely my favourite of the two…though they are both great films :)
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