Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express (1974) is Sidney Lumet's adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel, ready to watch online on iFILM. A luxury train bound across Europe grinds to a halt in a snowdrift, and by morning a passenger is found stabbed a dozen times behind a locked compartment door.

Lucky for the case, Hercule Poirot (Albert Finney) happens to be aboard. The Belgian detective starts work without leaving his carriage: the train is buried in snow, no one has gone anywhere, so the killer must be one of the thirteen strangers sharing the coach. Each has a tidy alibi, each is hiding something, and nearly every thread leads back to an old kidnapping in America.

Lumet packed a single railway car with a staggering cast — Lauren Bacall, Sean Connery, Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Michael York. Bergman won an Oscar for a few minutes of screen time, and Finney earned a nomination of his own. It is a closed-room puzzle that prizes deduction over chases. Stream Murder on the Orient Express (1974) online on iFILM.