Film · Paramount · 1974
Pass it on
Murder on the Orient Express
53Watch it awake.
A great puzzle, and I will not call that shared killing a court.
The review
They all did it. Poirot is on the Orient Express, a man has been stabbed, and the train has stopped in the snow. Every passenger had a reason. Under the reasons is a child the dead man kidnapped and killed. The detective's job is noticing, and he finishes it. As a mystery it respects your attention.
I stop where the film calls the result a private verdict. Grief for a child is a real weight. It is not a bench. Watch it with someone who likes a puzzle and will not get romantic about the knives. When the solution lands, say that the law never got the case.
Journal
Keep Murder on the Orient Express in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 53. Yours can differ.
The glance
Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
The Sheep Detectives
68 instead of 53
The Sheep Detectives is still a mystery film, and it scores 68 instead of 53. What you gain is stewardship: It hands on the habit of reading to the weak.
The eight
- 8Industry
Poirot's job is the case, and the stalled train gives him nothing but time.
- 5Household
A kidnapped, murdered child is the wound behind every passenger's reason.
- 5Piety
They answer a child's death with a killing and call the answer justice.
- 6Courage
Every passenger risks being named, for a child the dead man already killed.
- 3Republic
The law never gets the case. The train reaches its own verdict.
- 4Temperance
Revenge is shared out until it feels orderly, which is the danger.
- 7Truth
The detective uncovers the real story, then the truth stays on the train.
- 4Stewardship
You leave with a perfect puzzle and a court that never sat.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
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