Sleeping Car to Trieste
Sleeping Car to Trieste is a 1948 British comedy thriller film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Jean Kent, Albert Lieven, Derrick De Marney and Rona Anderson. It was written by Allan MacKinnon and is a remake of the 1932 film Rome Express.
Plot
Zurta and Valya are at ease in sophisticated society. Zurta steals a diary from the safe of an embassy in Paris while they are guests at a reception there, killing a servant who walks in on the theft. Poole, an accomplice, is passed the diary, but double-crosses them and attempts to flee with it on the Orient Express traveling between Paris and Trieste. Just in time, Valya and Zurta board the train, on which compartments are scarce, leading to unintended consequences.
More details
| author | Allan MacKinnon |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Trieste |
| director | John Paddy Carstairs |
| editor | Sidney Stone |
| genre | comedy crime thriller |
| keywords | army sergeant french police kill mysterious death orient express ornithologist pass police inspector travel unintended consequences world war ii |
| musicBy | Benjamin Frankel |
| producer | George H. Brown |
| productionCompany | Two Cities Films |
| publisher | Eagle-Lion Films General Film Distributors |
| theme | comedy thriller |