Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film) movie 40 years ago (when it was published here as "Murder on the Calais Coach"), it would have been photographed in black-and-white on a back lot in Burbank or Culver City, with one or two stars and a dozen character actors and studio contract players. Its running time would have been around 67 minutes and it could have been a very respectable B-picture. "Murder on the Orient Express" wasn't made into a movie 40 years ago, and after you see the Sidney Lumet production that opened yesterday at the Coronet, you may be both surprised and glad it wasn't. An
The Murder on the Links in the 1928 short story "Double Sin" which was published in book form in the US in "Double Sin and Other Stories" in 1961 and in the UK in "Poirot's Early Cases" in 1974. Some plot twists are inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange". The novel received its first true publication as a four-part serialisation in the "Grand Magazine" from December 1922 to March 1923 (Issues 214–217) under the title of "The Girl with the Anxious Eyes" before it was issued in book form by The Bodley Head in May 1923. This was Christie's