Murder on the Orient Express (2001 film) years earlier, in which a baby was kidnapped and then murdered. (The fictitious Armstrong case was apparently inspired by the real-life kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh's baby boy.) Murder on the Orient Express (2001 film) Murder on the Orient Express is a 2001 made-for-television mystery film directed by Carl Schenkel based on the 1934 novel "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie, featuring Hercule Poirot. This version is set in the present day and has a smaller cast than the novel. The screenplay was written by Stephen Harrigan and the original music score was composed by Christopher Franke. Hercule Poirot
Murder on a Honeymoon Pepper Tree", which was the title of the 1933 Stuart Palmer novel on which it was based. Some scenes for the film were shot on Santa Catalina Island, a well-known resort 26 miles off the California coast. Murder on a Honeymoon Murder on a Honeymoon is an American 1935 mystery film starring Edna May Oliver and James Gleason. This was the third and last time Oliver portrayed astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers; the two previous films were "The Penguin Pool Murder" (1932) and "Murder on the Blackboard" (1934). The film was directed by Lloyd Corrigan from a screenplay by Seton I.