ALL OVER THE WORLD.

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 4, 4 July 1940, Page 18

ALL OVER THE WORLD.

When Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stars have to go on a movie trip they have their own private railroad. It is located in the studio's backyard and consists of a station, three Pullman cars, and 250 feet of track. Originally built as a Russian station for "Anna Karenina," the set has since been redesigned a score of times for as many pictures. It was located in Omaha for "Idiot's Delight," New York for "Another Thin Man," and served as Chicago for "The Earl of Chicago," starring Robert Montgomery. The station provides a realistic setting for arrivals and departures in the movies. None of the thrills is omitted. Red Caps scurry by with luggage. Real steam pours out of the pipes of the Pullman cars. The prop man has a special apparatus to get this effect. The car pulls out of the station naturally enough, except for one thing. It is drawn by an automobile truck out of camera rar.|je. The studio doesn't own an engine. In the scene for the picture, Montgomery and Edward Arnold travelled fifty feet to indicate the start of a 4000-mile journey. Story of a Chicago gangster, Silky Kilmount, who inherits a title and vast estates in England, the characterisation is the most unusual Montgomery has yet played on the screen. It is the first American film brought to the screen by Victor Saville, M.-G.-M. British producer of "Good-bye, Mr. Chips" and "The Citadel." Richard Thorpe directed. Together with Montgomery and Arnold the cast features Reginald Owen, Edmund Gwenn,' E. E. Clive, Ronald Sinclair, Norma Varden, Halliwell Hobbes, lan Wulf, Peter Godfrey, and Billy Bevan.