Jean Kent

Albert Lieven

Derrick De Marney

Paul Dupuis

Rona Anderson

David Tomlinson

Bonar Colleano

Finlay Currie

Grégoire Aslan

Alan Wheatley

Hugh Burden

David Hutcheson

Claude Larue

Zena Marshall

Leslie Weston

Michael Ward

Eugene Deckers

Dino Galvani

George De Warfaz

Gerard Heinz

Michael Balfour

Robert Rietti

Merle Tottenham

John Paddy Carstairs

William Douglas-Home

Clifford Grey

George H. Brown

Benjamin Frankel

Jack Hildyard

Sidney Stone

Ralph W. Brinton

Betty Pierce

Kenneth Heeley-Ray

Charles Staffell

Allan MacKinnon

George Croll

John W. Mitchell

Thriller

Sleeping Car to Trieste

Two Cities Films

George H. Brown Productions

J. Arthur Rank Organisation

United Kingdom

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Usually you can rely on a train to provide for a great vehicle (sorry!) for a crime thriller, and this one uses the most famous of them all - the Orient Express - as the base for this chilling, semi-comical, espionage drama. It's all about the search for a stolen diary that contains secrets that could cause quite an international conflagration. Thing is, it's not just one nation that wants this book - and soon our train becomes quite a perilous hotbed of double crossing and red herrings. Finlay Currie casts aside his usual biblical rod and delivers quite a charming effort as the curmudgeonly author "MacBain" and for me, he stood out in this quite well paced drama. It's got a lot of "Rome Express" (1932) about it, and the strong cast lead by Jean Kent ("Valya") and a very dapper, if maybe just a little on the wooden side, Albert Lieven keep the adventure exciting with lots of shots of this luxurious train and the conclusion is effectively disguised to keep us nicely in the dark. It's perhaps just a touch too long, but I still think it's as good as the original and well worth a watch.

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