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The Last Express (1938)

The Last Express poster
Directed by
Otis Garrett
Genre
action film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 03m
Rating
4.0 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man boards a train and finds himself caught up in a mystery involving murder and theft. He must figure out who is behind the crime before the train reaches its destination.

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What happens

The Last Express is a 1938 American mystery film directed by Otis Garrett and written by Edmund Hartmann. It is based on the 1937 novel The Last Express by Baynard Kendrick. The film stars Kent Taylor, Dorothea Kent, Don Brodie, Paul Hurst, Addison Richards, Greta Granstedt, Robert Emmett Keane and J. Farrell MacDonald. The film was released on October 28, 1938, by Universal Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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