---
title: 'Murder on the Orient Express (1974)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Sidney Lumet'
released: '1974-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 128
certification: 'PG'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Mystery'
  - 'Crime'
countries:
  - 'Australia'
  - 'United Kingdom'
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/murder-on-the-orient-express-1974'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071877/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

1974 · PG · 128 min · Drama, Mystery, Crime · Australia, United Kingdom, United States


## Synopsis

Murder on the Orient Express is a 1974 British mystery film directed by Sidney Lumet, produced by John Brabourne and Richard Goodwin, and based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie.

## Credits

- **Original Music Composer:** [Richard Rodney Bennett](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-rodney-bennett)
- **Director:** [Sidney Lumet](https://cinepixo.com/people/sidney-lumet)
- **Screenplay:** [Anthony Shaffer](https://cinepixo.com/people/anthony-shaffer), [Paul Dehn](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-dehn)
- **Producer:** [John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-knatchbull-7th-baron-brabourne), [Richard Goodwin](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-goodwin)
- **Director of Photography:** [Geoffrey Unsworth](https://cinepixo.com/people/geoffrey-unsworth)
- **Editor:** [Anne V. Coates](https://cinepixo.com/people/anne-v-coates)

## Cast

- [John Gielgud](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-gielgud) as Edward Beddoes
- [Vernon Dobtcheff](https://cinepixo.com/people/vernon-dobtcheff)
- [Anthony Perkins](https://cinepixo.com/people/anthony-perkins) as Hector McQueen
- [George Coulouris](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-coulouris)
- [Colin Blakely](https://cinepixo.com/people/colin-blakely)
- [Jacqueline Bisset](https://cinepixo.com/people/jacqueline-bisset) as Countess Helena Andrenyi
- [Wendy Hiller](https://cinepixo.com/people/wendy-hiller) as Princess Natalia Dragomiroff
- [Rachel Roberts](https://cinepixo.com/people/rachel-roberts) as Hildegarde Schmidt
- [Vanessa Redgrave](https://cinepixo.com/people/vanessa-redgrave)
- [Sean Connery](https://cinepixo.com/people/sean-connery) as Colonel Arbuthnot
- [Robert Riettii](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-riettii)
- [Lauren Bacall](https://cinepixo.com/people/lauren-bacall) as Mrs. Hubbard
- [Jean-Pierre Cassel](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-pierre-cassel) as Pierre Paul Michel
- [Denis Quilley](https://cinepixo.com/people/denis-quilley)
- [Richard Widmark](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-widmark)

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