Sleeping Car to Trieste

1948
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1h 35m

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Jean Kent and Albert Lieven in Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948)

Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.

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6.6/10

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Trivia
Finlay Currie had appeared in the earlier "Rome Express" as the brash American publicist of a movie star, a character not used in this film.

Goofs
When the sergeant and the bird enthusiast are getting acquainted, the background seen through the train window includes two large signs, both mirror-reversed.

Quotes
Poirier, the chef: ...cover with white wine, put it into the oven, and voilà, it's cooked.
Denning: I say, that's very neat isn't it? But do you really think cod's worth all that trouble?
Poirier, the chef: Trouble?
Denning: Yes, you see at home we just lower the jolly old creature into the boiling water, let it boil, serve it up with greens and chips.
Poirier, the chef: But you get no sauce...?
Denning: Oh good Lord yes - there's always a bottle of sauce around somewhere.

Connections
Remake of Rome Express (1932)

This a delightful detective thriller, made in the inimitable British post-war manner. The cast is comprised of more than a dozen unusual characters who have taken the Orient Express to Trieste. A few of them are innocent and charming, but most of them are law-breakers on one level or another, their crimes ranging from evading customs duties to adultery, theft, assault, and murder.

The plot concerns a stolen diary, but the real action is trying to figure out who is in whose compartment at any given time, because as the police move in on the murderer, the matter of timing and alibis becomes of paramount importance.

The documentary shots of the train itself are exemplary. If you are a train buff, you will greatly enjoy this crude, lumbering, noisy hunk of iron, a giant boiler on wheels, barreling down the tracks as the people inside change compartments, eat, drink, and plot their petty and grand crimes.