Rome Express

An opportunity to catch a ride aboard this criminally underseen British thriller.

  • Director

    Walter Forde

  • With

    Conrad Veidt, Esther Ralston, Hugh Williams

  • UK 1932. 94min

  • 35mm

  • Certificate

    U

German star Conrad Veidt and ace Austrian cameraman Günther Krampf bring a near-expressionist Weimar sensibility to this riveting British thriller, set aboard a train filled with enjoyably stiff-upper-lipped stereotypes. Deplorably neglected today, this deserves to be remembered both as a classic and as a strangely serendipitous blending of two normally opposed cinematic styles.

The screening of Rome Express on Tuesday 21 July will include an introduction with writer Jonathan Coe, hosted by writer and season curator Kazuo Ishiguro.

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