Kenneth Branagh
Hercule Poirot
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Cast
- Johnny DeppEdward Ratchett
- Michelle PfeifferCaroline Hubbard
- Penélope CruzPilar Estravados
- Willem DafoeGerhard Hardman
- Judi DenchPrincess Natalia Dragomiroff
- Josh GadHector MacQueen
- Derek JacobiEdward Henry Masterman
- Leslie Odom Jr.Dr. Arbuthnot
- Daisy RidleyMary Debenham
Marwan KenzariPierre Michel- Olivia ColmanHildegarde Schmidt
- Agatha Christie
- 1934
- Hercule Poirot. A retired Belgian police officer. Poirot is Christie's most famous detective and is known for his short stature and long, curly moustache.
- M. Bouc. The director of the Compagnie Wagon Lits and formerly worked for the Belgian police force with Poirot. Traveling on the Orient Express, M. Bouc asks Poirot to take the case.
- Dr. Constantine. The coroner aboard the Orient Express. Dr. Constantine is often Poirot or M. Bouc's sidekick and is present for most of the evidence gathering.
- Mary Debenham. Daisy Armstrong's governess. Mary Debenham is a calm, cool and unruffled lady, instrumental in the planning of Ratchett's murder. Poirot is most suspicious of Mary because of conversation he overhears between herself and Colonel Arbuthnot on the train to Stamboul.
- Hercule Poirot. Hercule Poirot, the protagonist of the story, is a celebrated Belgian detective who stumbles on a murder investigation when a man in his train car, Mr. Ratchett, is murdered.
- M. Bouc. M. Bouc, who is a friend of Poirot’s, is a high-ranking employee of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, the company that operates the Orient Express.
- Mr. Ratchett / Cassetti. Mr. Ratchett is an older man in his sixties traveling with Mr. MacQueen, whom Poirot first encounters at a hotel in Istanbul. Ratchett immediately gives off a sinister impression to Poirot, to the extent… read analysis of Mr. Ratchett / Cassetti.
- Hector MacQueen. Hector is an American man around the age of thirty who took a job as an assistant to Mr. Ratchett, primarily helping him navigate the various languages of Europe in his travels.
Murder on the Orient Express is a work of detective fiction by English writer Agatha Christie featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 1 January 1934. In the United States, it was published on 28 February 1934, [1] [2] under the title of Murder in the Calais Coach ...
- Agatha Christie
- 256 (first edition, hardcover)
- 1934
- 1 January 1934
M. Bouc is an old friend of Poirot's and a fellow Belgian. He works for the Compagnie Wagon Lits, which owns the Orient Express. He is Poirot's constant companion, both serving to help him take charge of the train when necessary and acting as a stand-in for the reader. It is Bouc who asks Poirot to take the case of the murdered Mr. Ratchett.
Learn about the characters, themes, plot, and historical context of Agatha Christie's classic mystery novel Murder on the Orient Express. Find out how the author used her own experiences, influences, and inspirations to create the characters of Hercule Poirot, Ratchett, and other passengers on the train.
Daisy Armstrong is the three-year-old daughter of actress Sonia Armstrong. She is kidnapped for ransom and murdered, and her murderer, Cassetti—who later goes by the name Samuel Ratchett—is acquitted on a technicality. Sonia Armstrong. Sonia Armstrong is a world-famous actress and Daisy Armstrong's mother.
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Poirot is a retired Belgian police officer turned private detective. As a private detective he tours Europe and the Mid-East solving murder mysteries. Because he is a private detective and has no apparent family, Hercule Poirot has a great deal of freedom. He is independently wealthy and the decisions he makes are not subject to law or otherwise.
