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The Silent Battle (1939)

The Silent Battle poster
Directed by
Herbert Mason
Genre
thriller film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 13m
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Secret agents work to stop terrorists on the Orient Express. The story involves danger and espionage aboard a moving train.

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What happens

The Silent Battle (also lnown as Continental Express and Peace in our Time) is a 1939 British thriller film directed by Herbert Mason and produced by Anthony Havelock-Allan for Pinebrook Studios. The cast includes Rex Harrison, Valerie Hobson and John Loder. It marked the film debut of Megs Jenkins. It was inspired by the novel Le Poisson Chinois by Jean Bommart. Secret agents try to defeat terrorists on the Orient Express. The film was distributed by Paramount British Pictures. It is a remake of the French film The Silent Battle (1937). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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