![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Where Orient Express featured a proverbial all-star cast, Death downsizes to a somewhat less stellar line-up of fading stars, rising talents, and reliable character actors playing a gallery of arrogant, greedy, and resentful suspects. This time Peter Ustinov plays the fussy Belgian sleuth who puts his "little gray cells" to work when an heiress (Lois Chiles) is murdered on a small passenger ship while on her honeymoon. After the success of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express (1974), starring Albert Finney as detective Hercule Poirot, producers John Brabourne and Richard Godwin moved on to a follow-up. ![]()
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