What about Ronnie Barker as his manservant, eh? Showed what a fantastic actor he really was. And Linus Roache as the doomed young man from the Foreign Office... just marvellous. As for Finney, when he is good, he is very good; when he is bad, he stinks. His Poirot was the only really bad thing in MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, which was otherwise one of the two best Agatha Christie movies ever done (the other is WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION); one would love to see some kind of electronic trickery replace him in all his scenes with David Suchet, leaving the rest of the movie the same. But here, some kind of over-acting was called for - and he was great. How about the scene when he has made Clementine mad and he begs to be let back in? Man, that was acting...