Script adapt . They rush to the station and just manage to board the Orient Express. It's a rattling good yarn, though since we know Zurta is the criminal there's little surprise when Jolif gets to the bottom of the affair. Jean Kent gets to do little except smoulder exotically and the humorous characters are not a patch on Charters and Cauldicott from Night Train to Munich and The Lady Vanishes. The film isn't as good as its reputation, or as the original Rome Express , but it's still very watchable.
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The shrink tries to reform him but naughty Dirk seduces the Doc's wife Alexis Smith. She turns out to be madder than he is. Since this was directed by Joseph Losey on the run from the HUAC, auteurists would have you believe this is a near-masterpiece. Alcoholic bomb disposal expert falls in love and tries to redeem himself. Powell and Pressburger's bleakest film was a financial failure and can be looked at as the start of their decline, but it still provided great roles for David Farrar and Kathleen Byron.