Rome Express
The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.
The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.
Conrad Veidt
Zurta
Esther Ralston
Asta Marvelle
Hugh Williams
Tony
Donald Calthrop
Poole
Joan Barry
Mrs. Maxted
Harold Huth
George Grant
Gordon Harker
Tom Bishop
Eliot Makeham
Mills
Cedric Hardwicke
Alistair McBane
The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.
f this were to be a variant on the famous Agatha Christie train story, then "Hercule Poirot" may have ended up having an entire train's worth of murders to investigate. Rarely, can any one journey involve so many miscreants as this one from Paris to Rome. Geographically, it isn't that far - but when a man goes aboard intent on acquiring a recently stolen van Dyke painting - the folks who originally pinched it are also on the hunt - it takes on dangerously risky proportions. Conrad Veidt is particularly effective, as is Sir Cedric Hardwicke as the publicity-seeking magnate who would give "Scrooge" a run for his money in private, and Esther Ralston as the wannabe actress "Asta". Frank Vosper (who co-wrote some of this with Sidney Gilliat and Clifford Grey), Hugh Williams and Finlay Currie all contribute well to the quickly paced, frequently pithy dialogue with a gently increasing degree of suspense aided by some convincing looking sets and a genuinely good story. Some of the travelling effects are dated, now - but that doesn't impact too much on what is an enjoyable crime caper with plenty of twists.
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