Editing Murder on the Orient Express (section)

===Television===
====German adaptation (1955)====
The novel was first adapted as a 1955 episode of the West German television series ''Die Galerie der großen Detektive''. [[Heini Göbel]] played the role of Poirot.

====''Murder on the Orient Express'' (2001)====
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A thoroughly modernized and poorly received [[Television film|made-for-TV]] version starring [[Alfred Molina]] as Poirot was presented by CBS in 2001. This version co-starred [[Meredith Baxter]] as Mrs Hubbard and [[Leslie Caron]] as Señora Alvarado (based on Princess Dragomiroff, and portrayed as the widow of a South American dictator). Poirot is portrayed as significantly younger and less eccentric than Christie's detective, and is given a subplot involving a romantic relationship with Vera Rosakoff, who is loosely based on an infrequently recurring character of the same name. The story is updated to a contemporary setting, and four of the suspects (Hildegarde Schmidt, Cyrus Hardman, Edward Masterman and Greta Ohlsson) are deleted, as is Dr Constantine.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279250/combined IMDb profile], imdb.com; accessed 31 January 2015.</ref>

====''Agatha Christie's Poirot'': "Murder on the Orient Express" (2010)====
[[David Suchet]] reprised the role of [[Hercule Poirot]] in "[[List of Agatha Christie's Poirot episodes#Series 12 (2010–11)|''Murder on the Orient Express'']]" (2010), a 90-minute movie-length episode of the television series ''[[Agatha Christie's Poirot]]'' co-produced by [[ITV Studios]] and [[WGBH-TV]], adapted for the screen by Stewart Harcourt. The original air date was 11 July 2010 in the United States, and it was aired on Christmas Day 2010 in the UK.

The cast includes [[Eileen Atkins|Dame Eileen Atkins]] as Princess Dragomiroff, [[Hugh Bonneville]] as Masterman, [[Jessica Chastain]] as Mary Debenham, [[Barbara Hershey]] as Mrs Hubbard, [[Toby Jones]] as Ratchett, and [[David Morrissey]] as Colonel Arbuthnot.

The character Cyrus Hardman (the former American police officer turned private detective) has been largely amalgamated with the chauffeur Foscarelli (inasmuch as being the lover of the dead maid) and Dr Constantine (who in the novel is unrelated to the murders) becomes a coconspirator, depicted as having been the Armstrong family's doctor in America.

As in the 2017 film, MacQueen's father was the prosecutor rather than the Armstrongs' lawyer, whose career was ruined after he was threatened into acquitting Cassetti. The adaptation's treatment of Ratchett's murder is much darker than the novel. The killers gather in his cabin and stab him one by one while he is drugged but awake, rather than stabbing him independently while he is unconscious. The ending dwells on Poirot's horror at the act of mob justice and his moral conflict, in view of his Catholic faith and commitment to the law, when he decides not to tell the Yugoslavian police what he knows.

The interior of the Orient Express was reproduced at [[Pinewood Studios]] in [[London]], while other locations include the [[Freemason Hall]], [[Nene Valley Railway]], and a street in [[Malta]] (shot to represent Istanbul).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Murder on the Orient Express |url=http://www.agathachristie.com/poirot-tv/murder-on-the-orient-express |access-date=8 August 2014 |publisher=AgathaChristie.com}}</ref>

====Japanese TV adaptation (2015)====
A Japanese adaptation was broadcast over two nights in January 2015 on [[Fuji Television]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=オリエント急行殺人事件 – フジテレビ |trans-title=Orient Express Murder Case – Fuji Television |url=http://www.fujitv.co.jp/orientexpress/index.html |access-date=10 March 2016 |website=フジテレビ}}</ref> titled ''{{illm|Orient Kyuukou Satsujin Jiken|ja|オリエント急行殺人事件 (2015年のテレビドラマ)}}'', and it featured several famous actors, including [[Kazunari Ninomiya|Ninomiya Kazunari]], [[Nanako Matsushima|Matsushima Nanako]], [[Hiroshi Tamaki|Tamaki Hiroshi]], [[Michiko Kichise|Kichise Michiko]], [[Toshiyuki Nishida|Nishida Toshiyuki]], and [[Ikki Sawamura|Sawamura Ikki]]. The main character, Suguro Takeru, modeled on Hercule Poirot, was played by actor [[Mansai Nomura|Nomura Mansai]].

The first night featured a storyline true to the original text, but set in Japan in 1933. In this version, the train ''Orient Kyuukou'' ran from the western city of [[Shimonoseki]] to [[Tokyo]], with the train stopped by a small avalanche near [[Sekigahara, Gifu]].

The second night was an original story.

====Chinese TV adaptation (2022)====
The first four episodes of ''Checkmate'' (''Min guo da zhen tan'') is based on the story. [[Hu Yitian]] plays Si Tu Yan, a young lawyer from Peking who was dismissed from his post for sticking to his principles. He comes to Harbin to become a detective where he meets the forthright and wealthy friend Luo, played by [[Zhang Yunlong]].<ref>{{Citation |title=Checkmate (TV Series 2022) – IMDb |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt22798340/reference/ |access-date=2023-11-11}}</ref>