1930年，天才推理纽约发生了一起骇人听闻的绑票撕票案，天才推理主谋卡塞蒂携赎金逍遥法外。 5年后，侦探赫丘里·波罗（艾伯特·芬尼 饰）乘船渡过博斯普鲁斯海峡，并在朋友比安奇（马丁·鲍尔萨姆 饰）的安排下登上东方快车，去往伦敦。一日凌晨，波罗被隔壁10号包间的叫声惊醒。随后，因雪堆掩埋铁轨，列车被迫停于南斯拉夫境内。波罗再次睡下不久，又被吵嚷声惊醒。贵妇哈里特·贝琳达·哈伯德（劳伦·巴考尔 饰）声称10号包间的富翁雷切特（理查德·威德马克 饰）潜入了自己的11号包间。天亮后，雷切特的管家贝多斯（约翰·吉尔古德 饰）端来了饮料，却敲不开10号包间的门。列车员皮埃尔·保罗·米歇尔（让-皮埃尔·卡塞尔 饰）用钥匙开了锁，但是里面挂了门链。波罗与皮埃尔合力扳开门，发现雷切特口角流血死不瞑目。经医生康斯坦丁（乔治·库鲁里斯 饰）检查，雷切特被下了药，身中12刀，死亡时间为0点至2点间……
回复 :7年前，杰克（理查•基尔 饰）丢下了自己已怀孕的妻子劳瑞（朱迪•福斯特 饰）参加了美国内战。7年来毫无音讯，劳瑞承担起照顾孩子照顾家庭的责任。7年后的某天，杰克突然出现了。而且这时候的杰克，已不再是粗鲁刻薄，简直像变了一个人似的。本来就是地主的他带着村民一起勤奋耕作，希望尽力提高大家的生活水平。可是劳瑞初感到这种幸福感不久，事情发生了变化。杰克被控告与一宗谋杀案有关，当局要拘捕杰克，沉默的杰克并没有反抗，他接受拘捕。事实上，这是假的杰克，他是真杰克的教师朋友，真正的杰克早已死去了。假杰克愿意承受罪名，是因为他要把杰克最美好的一面留在大家的心中……
回复 :亚历克斯（卢克·威尔逊 Luke Wilson 饰）是一个失败的作家，由于负债累累，追债人在教训了他一顿后砸掉了他用以谋生的电脑，并且警告他，如果不能在一个月内还清债务，他的性命将面临危险。好在亚历克斯的脑中已经有了一个他自认为精妙的构思，无奈没有了电脑，他只得雇佣了速记员艾玛（凯特·哈德森 Kate Hudson 饰）协助他完成创作。没想到艾玛竟然是个个性固执的女人，对于亚历克斯的叙述，她总是会提出这样或是那样的反对意见，让亚历克斯抓狂的是，艾玛所提出的构思似乎才是正确和有趣的。就这样，在矛盾和争吵之中，亚历克斯的小说创作还算顺利的进行着，眼看着大限将到，他能够顺利完成吗？
回复 :The history of Danish country church architecture is told by showing scenes of how the church was used by the congregation, beginning with the celebration of mass in a small and simple wooden church 800 years ago, and ending with the congregation singing in a village church of to-day. The development and the growth of the pattern of church architecture is shown.Dreyer in this film shows a series of churches from different periods with churchgoers in period clothing. Each period is separated by a shot of a church bell double-exposed on the sky. Although the film has a vibrant and instructive way of communicating the different epochs and styles to students, it does not exhibit the artistic quality that usually distinguishes a Dreyer film, except perhaps in some of the costumes, which were originally made for Day of Wrath.The board of Dansk Kulturfilm in autumn 1945 decided that their planned church film would exclusively be about village churches. Dreyer would rework the script that was written by editor and folk high-school principal Bernhard Jensen, aided by a committee of experts consisting of architect H. Lønborg-Jensen and Victor Hermansen, curator at the National Museum of Denmark. Dreyer had a first draft ready in mid-March, entitled Kirken er et gammelt Hus ("The Church Is an Old House"), which was distributed to the members of the committee for their comments.In the last half of July, Dreyer and Victor Hermansen travelled the country to look at suitable churches. They researched the details and at Dreyer’s request a number of technical changes were made to the churches, including the removal of porcelain holders for electrical wiring in Tveje Merløse Church.On 4 July, Dreyer went in advance to Ringkøbing. Shooting was set to start a few days later with the arrival of the director of photography, Preben Frank, who had fallen off a ladder and broken his leg, Fortunately, he was ready to cautiously start working again within a few days, with his leg in a cast.Otherwise, the production went without a glitch. Everywhere, Dreyer said, they were well received at the vicarages and they had no problem getting enough extras. On 1 august, they returned to Copenhagen with almost all their footage in the can. They only needed to film the church in Skelby, where the weather had been against them, plus a Swedish wooden church in Hedared. The economy was distressed so soon after the war, especially when it came to foreign currency, but there were no real wooden churches left in Denmark and building an interior set in the studio would be too expensive.The finished film was shown for the first time on 24 September 1947 to a small, closed circle, which included the Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs. In December 1947, as was Dansk Kulturfilm’s standard practice, the film was presented to the press, politicians and others on a programme with four other short films.
