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This week, we discuss Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express!

In this episode, we read and watched:

• Agatha Christie’s novel, originally published in 1934. Buy on Amazon or iBooks.
• The 1974 movie, directed by Sidney Lumet, and starring Albert Finney as Hercule Poirot. Buy on Amazon or iTunes.
• The 2001 made-for-television movie, starring Alfred Molina. Watch on YouTube (we literally couldn’t find it anywhere else).
• The 2010 feature-length episode of Agatha Christie’s Poirot, starring David Suchet. Buy on iTunes.
• The 2017 movie, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh. Buy on Amazon or iTunes.

Some of the stuff we talked about in this episode:

• Clue
• The Lindbergh Kidnapping
• “It’s the Juice! Run, OJ, run!”
• Gosford Park
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
• Arthur, starring John Gielgud as a butler
• Ranking Every Episode of Agatha Christie’s Poirot
• The original trailer for Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express
• Michael Green, screenwriter of the 2017 Murder on the Orient Express and Logan