Orient Express is strictly an actors' showcase, and some of the performers have such assured technique that you begin to grin each time you see them.

The idea is that everything will be more interesting if Sean Connery or Ingrid Bergman, rather than the characters they play, is suspected of having committed the foul deed. The device does not work, despite the [actors'] occasionally droll efforts.

Agatha Christie's 1934 Hercule Poirot novel has been filmed for the first time in a bygone film style as it seems to be some treasure out of a time capsule.

The real knockout performance comes from Finney, deservedly Oscar-nominated for an eccentric turn that's unlike anything else he's ever attempted.