Conrad Veidt

Esther Ralston

Hugh Williams

Donald Calthrop

Joan Barry

Harold Huth

Gordon Harker

Eliot Makeham

Cedric Hardwicke

Frank Vosper

Finlay Currie

Muriel Aked

Walter Forde

Clifford Grey

Ralph Stock

Fredrick Y. Smith

Andrew Mazzei

Günther Krampf

Phil C. Samuel

Leighton Lucas

Michael Balcon

Albert Jullion

Ian Dalrymple

W.J. Dodds

Pat Morton

Victor A. Peers

R.K. Neilson-Baxter

Gordon Conway

Louis Levy

George Gunn

Bill Salter

Stan Jolly

Gordon Dines

T.S. Lyndon-Haynes

Jack Whitehead

Carl Laemmle

Bernard Knowles

George Stevens

Stephen Dade

S.R. Bonnett

Sidney Gilliat

Thriller

Rome Express

Gaumont-British Picture Corporation

United Kingdom

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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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Conrad Veidt in Rome Express (I)