William Collier Jr.

Sally Blane

J. Farrell MacDonald

Hobart Bosworth

Axel Axelson

Lina Basquette

Eddie Phillips

Claire McDowell

David Rollins

Robert Ellis

S. Roy Luby

Robert Ross

Laird Doyle

Albert S. D'Agostino

Irving C. Franklin

Donald M. Stoner	

Ross Fisher

Emory Johnson

Drama

Mystery

Romance

The Phantom Express

CinemaSerf

A railway line is being sabotaged and after one such incident an old engineer "Smokey" (J. Farrell MacDonald) - is dismissed. The profligate young son of the owner asks to be allowed to investigate the spate of incidents and soon discovers there are much more sinister goings on afoot. There are a lot of Hornby-style railway effects - especially around the disaster scenes; and the fisticuffs are verging on the comical. The script is also very much of it's time, the dialogue flows like glue. That said, it is quite an engaging tale with a bit of a social conscience too; you do really feel sorry for the wrongly sacked engineer and it's got quite an exhilarating ending.

English