Film

MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS

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One of the most majestic scenes in Sidney Lumet’s 1974 adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express is when the train’s passengers—key players in the murder mystery about to unfold—arrive on the platform of the Istanbul station to board. Through the steam and chaos of luggage, porters, spivs, vagabonds and an all-star cast (including Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, John Gielgud and Vanessa Redgrave), Michael York and Jacqueline Bisset appear as Count and Countess Andrenyi, flamboyantly costumed by Tony Walton in aristocratically impractical white. There might have been a borzoi or two in tow. Both then and now, the couple seem to be the embodiment of absolute glamour!