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 shot at Denham Studios outside London. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ralph Brinton. It is a remake of the 1932 film Rome Express.
Plot
The setting is almost entirely on a train travelling between Paris and Trieste after World War II. Two rather mysterious people, Zurta (Albert Lieven) and Valya (Jean Kent), 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 robbery. Poole, an accomplice, is passed the diary, but he double-crosses them and attempts to escape with it on the Orient Express. Just in time, Valya and Zurta board the train.
More details
author | Allan MacKinnon |
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contentLocation | Trieste |
director | John Paddy Carstairs |
editor | Sidney Stone |
genre | comedy crime thriller |
keywords | army sergeant french police kill mysterious death orient express ornithologist police inspector train travel world war ii |
musicBy | Benjamin Frankel |
producer | George H. Brown |
productionCompany | Two Cities Films |
publisher | Eagle-Lion Films General Film Distributors |
theme | comedy thriller |