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Death in the Snow: ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ (1974)

July 15, 2018 By retromoviebuff 8 Comments

This post is part of the Winter in July blogathon, hosted by Moon in Gemini. See the other posts here. The phrase ‘all-star cast’ can seem hackneyed these days, done to death alongside trailers that begin “in a world” and posters with faces overlaid with text. Yet Sidney Lumet’s Murder on the Orient Express is […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Agatha Christie, Albert Finney, Anthony Perkins, Blogathon, British Films, Crime, Ingrid Bergman, Lauren Bacall, Mystery, Sidney Lumet, Wendy Hiller

A Spot of Murder: ‘Evil Under the Sun’ (1982)

April 1, 2015 By retromoviebuff 1 Comment

Take an all-star cast, stick them in an exotic location and have one of them drop dead. Voila, you have the basic ingredients of the Lavish Agatha Christie Production, a peculiarly English brand of murder-mystery that in the seventies and early eighties brought us death on a train in Murder on the Orient Express, death […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Agatha Christie, British Films, Crime, James Mason, Maggie Smith, Mystery, Peter Ustinov, Roddy McDowall

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