Rome Express

+ intro with writer Jonathan Coe, hosted by writer and season curator Kazuo Ishiguro

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.

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