"Murder on the Orient Express" is a classy film, in so many ways. With an an intriguing plot, based on one of Agatha Christie's best works, it has wonderful settings and costumes, beautiful cinematography, a great score and of course, one of the most AMAZING casts ever. While Ingrid Bergman's Academy Award winning performance doesn't impress me that much, Finney plays a perfect Poirot (in my opinion much better than Peter Ustinov's) and the rest of the cast create many unforgettable characters as well. My personal favourites are Wendy Hiller as creepy princess Dragomiroff, Martin Balsam as delightful Italian signor Bianchi, and Lauren Bacall, who's BIG fun in this. Fine work also from sir John Gielgud, Anthony Perkins and Jean-Pierre Cassel; Sean Connery is remarkably sexy as colonel Arbuthnot. With such a cast this film is really, as its tag line states, "The Who's Who in the Whodunnit!". It offers a good deal of suspense, but also lots of humor, and more, a great, great ending. Even Agatha Christie was completely satisfied with this adaptation of her book, and I am too. My rating is 8/10.
