{"id":5078,"date":"2010-07-11T04:22:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T10:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=5078"},"modified":"2010-07-11T04:22:55","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T10:22:55","slug":"hercule-poirot-murder-on-the-orient-express-agatha-christie-pbs-new-masterpiece-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/hercule-poirot-murder-on-the-orient-express-agatha-christie-pbs-new-masterpiece-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Hercule Poirot : Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie – PBS NEW Masterpiece Mystery!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do NOT forget that the latest version of Murder on the Orient Express<\/em> will be airing tonight, July 11, 2010. Yes, it’s true! The (British) actor David Suchet<\/strong> will deliver yet another perfect portrayal of the Belgian private investigator. (What Jeremy Brett is to Sherlock Holmes, David Suchet is to Hercule Poirot!)<\/p>\n

I recently re-watched the 1974 movie version of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express <\/em>(directed by Sidney Lumet)\u00a0just so that I could compare that particular version to tonight’s Masterpiece Mystery!<\/strong> 90-minute version. (Having already read the Agatha Christie<\/a> mystery, and seen both the 1974 version of the movie, and a 1930\/1940 movie,\u00a0I knew I wouldn’t be spoiling the actual plot.)<\/p>\n

The 1974 movie stars Albert Finney as Hercule Poirot, and has a dream cast of actors from the 1970s. (Watching the 1974 Albert Finney Murder on the Orient Express<\/em> reminded me of watching Murder, She Wrote… and having all of the “A-list” guest stars in one 2-hour movie…)<\/p>\n

If you have a\u00a0yearning for seeing: Albert Finney and (by alphabetical order) Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller,\u00a0Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark,and Michael York… all in the confines of a very luxurious, absolutely splendorous train setting, with\u00a0gorgeous chandeliers that shimmer and shine, mother-of-pearl inlays in the\u00a0(\u00bfmahogany?) wood paneling of the walls, private sleeping cars that are without doubt unequal today, shared sleeping berths that would make you wish you could travel in the second-class section >>>Well then, this 1974 Murder on the Orient Express<\/a><\/em> is for you!<\/p>\n

BUT >>> If you have a desire for watching Hercule Poirot as only David Suchet can portray him, then make sure you\u00a0are either sitting in front of your television tonight (on your local PBS station) OR you don’t forget to set your mode of recording!<\/p>\n

I only wish that Hugh Frasier (Capt. Hastings) and Pauline Moran (Miss Lemon) could have come aboard!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do NOT forget that the latest version of Murder on the Orient Express will be airing tonight, July 11, 2010. Yes, it’s true! The (British) actor David Suchet will deliver yet another perfect portrayal of the Belgian private investigator. (What Jeremy Brett is to Sherlock Holmes, David Suchet is to Hercule Poirot!) I recently re-watched […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,16,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-british-moviestv-shows","7":"category-dvds","8":"category-movies","9":"category-moviestv-shows","10":"entry","11":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-1jU","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}