Bombay Mail (1934)

Directed by

Edwin L. Marin

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 10m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Passengers ride a train called the Bombay Mail across India. The story involves secrets and suspicion among the travelers.

old-fashionedmysterioussuspensefultraveloguestagedconventionalperiod

What happens

Bombay Mail is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by Edwin L. Marin and written by Tom Reed. The film stars Edmund Lowe, Ralph Forbes, Shirley Grey, Hedda Hopper, Onslow Stevens, and Jameson Thomas. The film was released on January 6, 1934, by Universal Pictures. The film is based on the Lawrence Blochman novel of the same name which was originally published in 1933 in the pulp magazine Complete Stories. According to Lal Chand Mehra, an Indian who acted in and advised numerous Hollywood films in the first half of the 20th century, the entire movie was filmed in elaborate sets. "it was necessary to build an entire Indian train —the ‘Imperial Indian Mail'—to construct several stations and to see that each and every character, from brahmins to untouchables, were correctly costumed and correctly dressed", he said in an interview in the Madera Tribune. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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