Saturday, June 09, 2018

Slaughter of the cash cow

Not too long ago I saw Sidney Lumet's Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Albert Finney as the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and otherwise starring such great people as Sean Connery, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman and so on. Not so many renowned stars in Kenneth Branagh's version, but the movie is visually breathtaking otherwise and even if the bulk of the story remained the same I loved the little things they had enriched it.

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Forlorn friends obliterated

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