Sleeping Car to Trieste
A Thousand Miles of Thrills, Drama and Excitement!
1948 | 95m | English
Popularity: 3 (history)
| Director: | John Paddy Carstairs |
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| Writer: | William Douglas-Home, Clifford Grey, Allan MacKinnon |
| Staring: |
| Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express. | |
| Release Date: | Oct 06, 1948 |
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| Director: | John Paddy Carstairs |
| Writer: | William Douglas-Home, Clifford Grey, Allan MacKinnon |
| Genres: | Thriller |
| Keywords | spy, embassy, espionage, chef |
| Production Companies | Two Cities Films, J. Arthur Rank Organisation, George H. Brown Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Apr 30, 2024 Entered: Apr 30, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Jean Kent | Valya |
| Albert Lieven | Zurta |
| Derrick De Marney | George Grant |
| Paul Dupuis | Detective Inspector Jolif |
| Rona Anderson | Joan Maxted |
| David Tomlinson | Tom Bishop |
| Bonar Colleano | Sergeant West |
| Finlay Currie | Alastair McBain |
| Grégoire Aslan | Poirier, the chef |
| Alan Wheatley | Karl/Charles Poole |
| Hugh Burden | Mills |
| David Hutcheson | Denning |
| Claude Larue | Andrée |
| Zena Marshall | Suzanne |
| Leslie Weston | Randall |
| Michael Ward | Elvin |
| Eugene Deckers | Jules |
| Dino Galvani | Pierre |
| George De Warfaz | Chef du Train |
| Gerard Heinz | Ambassador |
| Michael Balfour | Spiegel |
| Robert Rietti | Vincent (voice) |
| Merle Tottenham | Miss Smith |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Charles Staffell | Special Effects |
| John Paddy Carstairs | Director |
| William Douglas-Home | Writer |
| Clifford Grey | Story |
| Benjamin Frankel | Music |
| Jack Hildyard | Director of Photography |
| Sidney Stone | Editor |
| Ralph W. Brinton | Art Direction |
| Betty Pierce | Assistant Art Director |
| Kenneth Heeley-Ray | Sound Effects Editor |
| Allan MacKinnon | Screenplay |
| George Croll | Sound Recordist |
| John W. Mitchell | Sound Recordist |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| George H. Brown | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Usually you can rely on a train to provide for a great vehicle (sorry!) for a crime thriller, and this one uses the most famous of them all - the Orient Express - as the base for this chilling, semi-comical, espionage drama. It's all about the search for a stolen diary that contains secrets that cou ... ld cause quite an international conflagration. Thing is, it's not just one nation that wants this book - and soon our train becomes quite a perilous hotbed of double crossing and red herrings. Finlay Currie casts aside his usual biblical rod and delivers quite a charming effort as the curmudgeonly author "MacBain" and for me, he stood out in this quite well paced drama. It's got a lot of "Rome Express" (1932) about it, and the strong cast lead by Jean Kent ("Valya") and a very dapper, if maybe just a little on the wooden side, Albert Lieven keep the adventure exciting with lots of shots of this luxurious train and the conclusion is effectively disguised to keep us nicely in the dark. It's perhaps just a touch too long, but I still think it's as good as the original and well worth a watch.