A pair of young women board a train to find it packed with entertainers. This flimsy plot provides an excuse for cashing in on the hit TV pop series. Rock 'n Roll may have ruled the world at this time, but here it's skiffle that holds sway. Includes performances from Lonnie Donegan, Petula Clark and Cleo Laine as well as a host of other notables. Hitchcock can't quite get Galsworthy's play right on the screen.
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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. Script adapt .