The best film version of Murder on the Orient Express won the 47th Academy Awards the following year in 1975. Ingrid Bergman won the Best Supporting Actress Award for her role as the nanny and missionary Swede Orr. Ms. Sen.
The film basically respects the original story. The kidnapping case is first introduced, and then starting in Istanbul 5 years later, Poirot is accompanied by the military to the ferry port and takes the ferry to the train station. Here I met Debeyham and Colonel Arbuthnot. The train leaves at 9:00 pm, and the 12-person collective trial starts at 2:00 am.
Unlike the British drama, the movie tells Armstrong's name is Hamish Armstrong. He and his wife are pilots according to the real events. In addition, there is no governess, and Debeyham is Sonia Armstrong's female secretary. Ratchett claimed to be in the baby food business (so ironic), the Greek doctor was not in the sleeper car, but in the ordinary car with the railway director Bianchi, and he was not a member of the 12-person jury, the added one was a policeman, openly The identity is a theater agent, and he also claims to be an amateur detective hired by Ratchett. In fact, he is the lover or husband of the suicide maid. The maid who committed suicide is not the suicide in prison in the British drama, but jumped off the building at home after being wronged. suicide. There is also the fact that the girl behind the back that Poirot deliberately saw at night was not wearing a red kimono (British drama), but a white nightgown. The buttons were not found by Poirot either, but by Mrs. Hubbard in her handbag. The details of the Duchess (Princess)'s dog are also reproduced in the original. The most cowardly character in the British drama is the maid (the original chef) of Her Royal Highness the Duchess and Princess, who in the movie becomes a Swedish missionary with poor English played by Ingrid Bergman. Of course the berths have also changed, with steward Edward Beddos and driver Gino Foscarelli living in No. 1, No. 2, Oedipal Hector McQueen in No. 4, Chef Heard Gard was alone at No. 5 and No. 6, Debeyham and Olsen shared No. 7 and No. 8. After arriving in Belgrade, Poirot moved into No. 9 in Bianchi, No. 10 was Ratchett, and No. 11 next door was Ha. Mrs. Bird, the order of box berths has not changed since then, except that number 16 has been replaced by a police officer (the so-called amateur detective) Cyrus B Hardman. In the end, the trial order of the villain Ratchett in place of God has also changed. This time, Mrs. Harriet Belinda Hubbard, Colonel John Arbuthnot, Mary Debenham, Greta Olsen, Helena Andreni Grunwald (The Count and Lady start together, which is not the same as replacing the wife in the British drama), Gino Foscarelli, Hildegar De Schmidt, Natalia Dragomirov, Hector McQueen, Bedos, Cyrus B Hardman, Pierre Paul Michel. The film does not explicitly point out that De Beham is the mastermind of the event. Her actors are taller, tougher and more beautiful than those in the British drama.
At the end of the play, the conflict between law and justice did not appear in Poirot, and he easily handed it over to Bianchi for ruling, which is obviously not as reasonable and full as the details before and after the plot in the British drama.
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