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FLORENCE-The free film series The Screening Room: Classics, Crowd-Pleasers, Cult Favorites and Neglected Gems returns at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 19, with a special 40th-anniversary showing of Murder on the Orient Express (1974) – an all-star, Oscar-winning adaptation of Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery by director Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, The Verdict) – at the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library, 350 N. Wood Ave., Florence, Alabama.
FLORENCE-The free film series The Screening Room: Classics, Crowd-Pleasers, Cult Favorites and Neglected Gems returns at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 19, with a special 40th-anniversary showing of Murder on the Orient Express (1974) – an all-star, Oscar-winning adaptation of Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery by director Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, The Verdict) – at the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library, 350 N. Wood Ave., Florence, Alabama.Albert Finney stars as Christie’s brilliant Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot, with Lauren Bacall, Sean Connery, Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Perkins, John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Martin Balsam, Rachel Roberts, Wendy Hiller, Jacqueline Bisset, Michael York, Jean-Pierre Cassel, George Coulouris and Denis Quilley in steller support.
Set in 1935, the intelligent, suspenseful thriller takes place on the famed Orient Express, where Poirot is called on to investigate a murder that occurs while the posh, elegant passenger train is trapped in a deep snowdrift.
Bergman won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The critically acclaimed mystery also earned Oscar nominations for 
Best Actor (Finney), Best Adapted Screenplay (Paul Dehn), Best Cinematography (Geoffrey Unsworth), Best Costume Design (Tony Walton) and Best Original Score (Richard Rodney Bennett).
Best Actor (Finney), Best Adapted Screenplay (Paul Dehn), Best Cinematography (Geoffrey Unsworth), Best Costume Design (Tony Walton) and Best Original Score (Richard Rodney Bennett).The Screening Room series – sponsored by the library and Pillar of Fire – is organized and hosted by film historian and Pillar of Fire founder Terry Pace, who teaches English at the University of North Alabama. Admission is free. For details, call the library at 256-764-6564 or Pillar of Fire at 256-366-4512.
“Only by interrogating the other passengers could I hope to see the light, but when I began to question them, the light, as Macbeth would said, thickened.” – Hercule Poirot (Albert Finney) in director Sidney Lumet’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
