Having enjoyed Death on the Nile, with Kenneth Branagh embracing his inner Belgium Detective, I thought I would try his original outing as the master of the heavily manicured moustache. It was good fun, and although from the previous 1974 film (the one with the gorgeous Richard Rodney Bennett soundtrack) I was well aware of the plot, I enjoyed it very much (spoiler - they all did it). Apparently Christie's original (and not actually very good) novel was inspired by a westbound Orient Express train that was stuck in snow for five days in 1929 at Çerkezköy, eighty-one miles from Istanbul. The cinematography and the setting of the opulence of luxury train travel in 1934 was excellent, and the film, stuffed with both American stars and British National Treasures, was good fun.