Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single

mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime Dame Agathichristy. I'm Catherine Brobeck and I'm Camper Donovan.

And this week we are following up on last week's episode, which we used to discuss the novel Murder on the Orient

Express.

This week we are actually talking about all of the adaptations, of which there are three and then there is the forthcoming 2017 version.

So we will be discussing all of those although we will note we have not seen the 2017 version so we are only

speculating I know I know for some reason you know they didn't give us an advanced

coffee I know we're doing this podcast.

I don't understand.

Yeah, jeez, go with it guys.

So just a quick rundown.

The book obviously was published in 1934, and it wasn't until 40 years later that the first English

language adaptation was made in 1974 a very star-studded, well-regarded both critically and commercially adaptation.

Sidney Lumet directed that John Braeburn was the producer and this is often

considered the beginning of the quote-unquote good Christie film adaptations

there certainly were adaptations that were

witness for the prosecution yes that being the big one that came before it but

there was also a lot of bad that happened

in the 60s and that really put Ag of the Christie off of film adaptations and

interestingly and this information is coming from yet again Mark Aldridge's book Agith Christie on screen.

The producer for that 74 Murder on the Oregon Express adaptation,

John Braeburn, was the son-in-law of Lord Mount Baton,

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