Murder on the Orient Express (2001 film) 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 is travelling on the "Orient Express". While on the journey, Poirot meets a very close friend Bouc, who works for the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. The train
Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews was the initial title of a government memorandum prepared by officials of the United States Department of the Treasury. Dated January 13, 1944, during the Holocaust, its primary author was Assistant to the Secretary Josiah E. DuBois Jr. Focusing on the period from late 1942 to late 1943, the report argued that certain officials within the US State Department not only had failed to use US government tools