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Rome Express
(GB, Walter Forde, 1932)
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Production Company: Gaumont-British
Pictures Corporation Ltd., London
Country: Britain
Producer: Michael Balcon
Director: Walter Forde
Screenplay: Clifford Grey
Dialogue: Frank Vosper, Ralph Stock
Additional Dialogue: Sidney Gilliat
CAST
Conrad Veidt as Zurta
Esther Ralston as Asta Marvelle
Cedric Hardwicke as Alistair McBane
Frank Vosper as Inspector Jolif
Gordon Harker as Tom Bishop
Donald Calthrop as ‘Poole’
Hugh Williams as Tony Rency
Harold Huth as George Grant
Joan Barry as Mrs Maxstead
Finlay Currie as Sam,
Miss Marvelle’s Manager
Eliot Makeham as Mills,
Mr McBain’s Secretary
Muriel Aked as the Pessimistic Spinster
SYNOPSIS
An assortment of passengers board the Rome Express departing from Paris, including: Police Inspector Jolif (Frank Vosper), golf bore Tom Bishop (Gordon Harker), American film star Asta Marvelle (Esther Ralston) and her publicity-minded Manager, Sam (Finlay Currie), pompous millionaire Alistair McBane (Cedric Hardwicke) and his bullied secretary Mills (Eliot Makeham), George Grant (Harold Huth) and his companion Mrs Maxstead (Joan Barry), the twitchy Mr Poole (Donald Calthrop) and, at the last moment, gangsters Zurta (Conrad Veidt) and Tony (Hugh Williams). Their lives become entangled in an interweaving storyline involving a stolen painting, murder and intrigue…
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