Murder on the Orient Express
Sat, 2001-06-09 13:54
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Murder on the Orient Express
I've just watched Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express. Unfortunately because of distractions I missed a lot of the movie, but since it's on cassette, can view it again. I really enjoyed this movie! When I was a teenager, I read many, many Agatha Christie books.
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Directed by Sidney Lumet
Albert Finney .... Hercule Poirot
Lauren Bacall .... Mrs. Hubbard
Martin Balsam .... Bianchi
Ingrid Bergman .... Greta Ohlsson
Jacqueline Bisset .... Countess Andrenyi
Jean-Pierre Cassel .... Pierre Paul Michel
Sean Connery .... Colonel Arbuthnott
John Gielgud .... Beddoes
Wendy Hiller .... Princess Dragomiroff
Anthony Perkins .... Hector McQueen
Vanessa Redgrave .... Mary Debenham
Rachel Roberts .... Hildegarde Schmidt
Richard Widmark .... Ratchett
Michael York .... Count Andrenyi
Colin Blakely .... Dick Hardman
I'm wondering if any other members have seen this or other movies based on books. And while we're at it, where did Agatha Christie live? Any fans out there?
Barry Wood
hehe IFB
lots of sunshine and very strong tea
:-}
iFB
what????? no class A drugs????
Barry Wood
Any suggestions, IFB?
:-}
iFB
... barry have you been licking toads???
Barry Wood
Stop it! I'm laughing too hard.
iFB
.... barry ... what is that glass thing with rubber pipes and water in the bottom that i see on your desk????
Barry Wood
IFB, can't stop laughing. Thanks, IFB. I needed that today.
Chers.
Wolfgirl
Although I am not a Christie expert, I do know that she was born in Torquay, Devon in 1890. She did live abroad for a number of years but I'm not quite sure exactly where she settled upon returning to England. However, my father-in-law actually met her when he was a boy. Obviously she was a white-haired old lady by then, not unlike Miss Marple. He described as as very sharp and inquisitive, bright as a buttin. I shall pick his brains on the subject. One intriguing fact about her is that in 1926, she 'disappeared' for eleven days. It is still an area of controversy and mystery, the subject of a film as well, starring Dustin Hoffman and Vanessa Redgrave. There's something for you to investigate Barry. (The mystery, not the film) Intrigue!
wolfgirl
Note: A buttin is similar to a button but is a word used by sloppy writers who spell button incorrectly.
iFB
i like buttin ... it is similar to curtin ...
Taj
Pretty stunning cast. It's been ages since I saw the film, though (can't remember a thing).
olive
thought blakely was on the buses, not the orient express
iFB
*been out for toad*
robert
does it have to be a toad, specifically?
don't think there are any toads round here. do you think i could get a similar buzz from a slug?
iFB
well ... perhaps if you smoke it robert ...
robert
*cough*
well that wasn't too bad...if you don't inhale they taste a bit like marlboro....
iFB
you smoked it already??? ... and i was just going to check with barry wood ... world expert on mind altering substances ...
Andrea
Oh, Fish, yuk! (We have FAR better things here).
Confession time: I used to really like AC and still, on occasion, readthe odd (very odd) AC book. 'Tis light relief between all the Russian and French classics.
Ahem.
Hell, peecee playing up again, hence the lack of coordination (nothing to do with Bone's pipes and water, I do assure you...
robert
* tries to remember the cast of On The Buses *
Andrea
Reg Varney??? Et al...
stormy
Andrea, please don't say "tis" you remind me of one that has left us for pastures of tis and twas. I think I got the last word right. Never sure whether to spell it with an s or a t.
Liana
*has slug up each nostril, in desperate attempt to get writing again*
Andrea
Sorry to offend, Stormy, but I have a fondness for ''tis'.
Also: Thus, hitherto, wherefore, henceforth and oft (sometimes).
'Twats' is nice, too.
iFB
liana ... maybe nostril not right place for slug ...
stormy
;->
I also have a fondness for tis.
I think I spelt that right
Andrea
Alas, poor Stormy...
big dave
pssst, liana...i can score yer a 50 gram garden black if you're interested...top quality...
dave's sister
I knew him well.
I can score too.
unlike owen
W H Audenary
Yes, I remember Adlestrop --
The name, because one afternoon
Of sweat the express-train blew up there
Unwarrantedly. I was with June.
The driver, pissed. Someone grabbed my throat.
No one died but no one came round
On the burnt platform. What I saw
Was Adlestrop -- stupid name
And ambulances, firemen, a nurse,
And TV crews from CNN and Sky,
Those witless nits, the Tabloid Press were there.
Then the engine blew and flew into the sky.
And for that minute a black cloud hung
Close by, and round it, rubbernecking
Nearer and nearer, all the nerds
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
Liana
WOW!!
Yes please...
lve been stuck with all these second rate brownish ones with dots on
Just not the same....
Fishwife, l was wondering where you would suggest l put them?
Only lve had enough slugs elsewhere.....
Eddie
I wrote a poem about slugs:
Slug
I am a horned ingot of night,
my trail is a freeze-frame
comet spray; a stream
of glit and slimy light.
ok, please yerselves.
Andrea
...and that's what little boys are made of...
andrew pack
Barry, I recommend reading 'Who killed Roger Ackroyd?' (I can dig the author's name out if need be) - a deconstruction of Christie's greatest classic and suggesting that Poirot was wrong when he unmasked the killer. It is very entertaining and a reminder of what a genius Christie was in her particular field. Sure, her characters were cardboard, but at what she did, she was the best there has ever been. Except Sparkling Cyanide - which is a cheat, do not read or watch on television, the murderer is on screen/page for a blink of an eye.
Barry Wood
Thanks for the suggestion, Andrew; I'll add it to my "must read" list.
andrew pack
Actually Barry, if you like crime fiction, Chesterton was also a bit of a giant in the field of puzzle-crime. Tends to stretch the genre more than Christie - everything that you take as a given in a crime story is not to be relied on with Chesterton, whose best short story is "The Absence of Mister Glass" in one of the Father Brown collections. Utter genius and with a real sense of human warmth as well.
Sigh, first rumours that I watch Crossroads (untrue, but I do watch a lot of Hollyoaks) and now I confess to loving English "cosy" crime fiction. This is killing the image.
Andrea
Bugger the image, Andrew, who needs it? I like Christie, Chesterton, Wodehouse, Chandler, Doyle, Mitford, Weldon, Murdoch, Drabble...
Image! Pah!
iFB
barry! never mind licking toads i can thoroughly recommend sloe gin ...
sp
I thought it was fast gin ivy?
andrew pack
Andrea, your first four would be in my top ten. There's a brief tribute to Wodehouse essay in one of my sets.
Andrea
I'll go look it up, Andrew, thanks - he made miserable schooldays bearable...
reba
Have you got the author Of "Who killed R. Ackroyd"? And thanks for the Chesterton suggestion. I'm listening to Agatha C. and Sherlock H. tapes to relieve the boredom while washing-up (there are a lot of us in my family!!). Haven't been able to read a book for ages - prayers please from all bookworms that I can find a niche.....
Andrea
Wasn't 'Roger Ackroyd' Christie? Have to admit to not reading any AC for years.
Dear ol' Sherlock! He, too, made schooldays less of a nightmare (especially under the desk in the RI lessons)
Dave Randall
I am now more confused by the detective genre than I was previously. I must admit that when the forensic scientist explained they had been able to identify the slug they were referring to a bullet used that had caused the mysterious death. Indeed at other times I had assumed that the victim had been hit from behind with a heavy object when it stated they had been slugged. Now I find that the humble garden slug in all it's varieties is a narcotic and wonder if when taken in sufficient quantities could have caused some of the fatalities I have encountered when reading AC and others.
Can anyone enlighten me without suggesting I try any particular slug?
iFB
*wants some of whatever barry is on*