Rome Express
The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.
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Rome Express is a 1932 British thriller film directed by Walter Forde and starring Esther Ralston and Conrad Veidt. It has been called "one of the most ambitious productions that Gaumont had made up to that time" and "is regarded as the high point of director Walter Forde's career." Based on a story by Clifford Grey, with a screenplay by Sidney Gilliat, the film is a tale about a European express train to Rome carrying diverse characters, including thieves, adulterers, blackmail victims, and an American film star. The film won the American National Board of Review award for Best Foreign Film. Rome Express was remade as Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948).
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- Director
- Walter Forde
- Starring
- Conrad Veidt, Esther Ralston, Hugh Williams, Donald Calthrop, Joan Barry, Harold Huth, Gordon Harker, Eliot Makeham
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