Orient Express (1934)

Directed by

Paul Martin

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 13m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman and several other passengers board a train for a journey across Europe. The story follows their intertwined fates and the secrets they carry aboard.

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What happens

Orient Express is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by Paul Martin and starring Heather Angel, Norman Foster and Ralph Morgan. It is based on the 1932 novel Stamboul Train by Graham Greene, the first of his works to be adapted for the screen. It was produced and distributed by Fox Film. Fox were persuaded to hire Martin as director by Lilian Harvey, the actress who was in a relationship with him, and had signed with the studio after starring in several films directed by Martin in Germany. It was his only Hollywood film and he returned to Germany where he again directed Harvey in several more hits. The film is part of a group set almost entirely on trains or ocean liners during the decade. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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