BEST-SELLER BROUGHT TO SCREEN
GRAHAM GREEN'S * ORIENT EXPRESS ' Filled with tense drama and vivid romance, and filmed against a rich background, ‘ Orient Express,’ based upon Graham Greene’s best-selling novel, will open at tho Grand Theatre on Friday. The splendid characterisations of the principals, together with tho swiftlymounting suspense, romance, and intrigue, which bring the picture to an exciting climax, should hold the audience from beginning to end. ‘ Orient Express ’ is a story of seven people who meet on board a train from Ostend to Constantinople. Each one has his own ambition and goal in life, but at tho end of their journey they find their lives completely changed. A wealthy young merchant falls in love with a dancer; a woman feporter gets her “ big story ” from a Communist leader; a thief, fleeing from justice, meets with death; a retiring Englishman begins to assert himself before his domineering wife; and a beautiful girl finds the love she has always sought. Heather Angel and Norman Foster have the romantic leads. Other parts are played by Ralph Morgan, Herbert Mundin, and Una O'Connor.
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Evening Star, Issue 21715, 9 May 1934, Page 11
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180BEST-SELLER BROUGHT TO SCREEN Evening Star, Issue 21715, 9 May 1934, Page 11
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