Consider The Ray Bradbury Theater: On the Orient, North, Bradbury’s version of Murder on the Orient Express, which is even referenced at the very beginning of the episode. It features Magali Noel as Minerva Halliday who offers to help someone described only as ‘the ghastly passenger’. Frankly, I don’t get the fascination. The lighting is very dark for their first conversation so that only their
faces are lit. You don’t really see anything else.
Some of the conversation is very poetic, almost sweeping you away in the words themselves. Somehow, though, the words have brought these two people together. They exit the train and end up at a cemetery which he says is quiet and serene and at which a lot of favorite people are buried, including Chopin. Soon, he’s hearing ...
