Sleeping Car to Trieste

Sleeping Car to Trieste

Infobox Film
name = Sleeping Car to Trieste


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director = John Paddy Carstairs
producer = George H. Brown
writer = William Douglas-Home
Allan MacKinnon
Clifford Grey (story)
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starring = Jean Kent
Albert Lieven
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cinematography =
editing =
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released = October 6 1948 (UK)
April 16 1949 (US)
runtime = 95 minutes
country = U.K.
language = English
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amg_id = 1:45161
imdb_id = 0040799

"Sleeping Car to Trieste" is a film made in 1948. It was directed by John Paddy Carstairs and written by William Douglas-Home, Allan MacKinnon, and Clifford Grey. It is a remake of the 1932 film "Rome Express", with essentially the same characters and many of the same actors.

Plot

The film takes place almost entirely on a train travelling between Paris and Trieste in post-war Europe. Albert Lieven and Jean Kent play two somewhat mysterious people, at ease in sophisticated society. On Valya's behalf, Zurta steals a diary from an unnamed embassy in Paris, but in doing so, is forced to kill an embassy guard. Poole, an accomplice of theirs, is passed the diary, but he double-crosses the other two and attempts to escape with it on the Orient Express. Just in time, Valya and Zurta also board the train.

They are soon involved with not only tracking down Poole (who is hiding in a train compartment and desperately trying to avoid being moved by the train staff) but with several other travellers, including a U.S. Army sergeant with an eye for the ladies, an adulterous couple, an idiot stockbroker, a wealthy, autocratic writer and his brow-beaten secretary/valet, a bird watcher, a French police inspector, and the train's chef, who is forced to listen to a self-styled cooking 'expert' from England.

The diary is discovered by accident and passes through the hands of several people on the train, but when Zurta kills Poole, he is eventually confronted by the police inspector. In an attempt to escape, he leaps from the train, but is hit (and presumably killed) by a train travelling in the opposite direction. The diary is presumed to be lost with him.

Cast

*Jean Kent - Valya
*Albert Lieven - Zurta
*Derrick De Marney - George Grant
*Paul Dupuis - Inspector Jolif
*Rona Anderson - Joan Maxted
*David Tomlinson - Tom Bishop
*Bonar Colleano - Sergeant West
*Finlay Currie - Alastair MacBain
*Grégoire Aslan - Poirier, the chef (as Coco Aslan)
*Alan Wheatley - Karl/Charles Poole
*Hugh Burden - Mills
*David Hutcheson - Denning
*Claude Larue - Andrée
*Zena Marshall - Suzanne
*Leslie Weston - Randall

External links

*imdb title|id=0040799|title=Sleeping Car to Trieste


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