This week, we discuss Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express!
In this episode, we read and watched:
- Agatha Christie’s novel, originally published in 1934. Buy on Amazon or iBooks.
- The 1974 movie, directed by Sidney Lumet, and starring Albert Finney as Hercule Poirot. Buy on Amazon or iTunes.
- The 2001 made-for-television movie, starring Alfred Molina. Watch on YouTube (we literally couldn’t find it anywhere else).
- The 2010 feature-length episode of Agatha Christie’s Poirot, starring David Suchet. Buy on iTunes.
- The 2017 movie, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh. Buy on Amazon or iTunes.
Some of the stuff we talked about in this episode:
- Clue
- The Lindbergh Kidnapping
- “It’s the Juice! Run, OJ, run!”
- Gosford Park
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
- Arthur, starring John Gielgud as a butler
- Ranking Every Episode of Agatha Christie’s Poirot
- The original trailer for Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express
- Michael Green, screenwriter of the 2017 Murder on the Orient Express and Logan