WHIRLWIND ACTION

Evening Star, Issue 21716, 10 May 1934, Page 11

WHIRLWIND ACTION

• ORIENT EXPRESS ’ A TENSE DRAMA With a cast that features seven stars, ‘ Orient Express ’ will make its appearance at the Grand Theatre to-morrow. Based upon Graham Greene s best spiling novel, the film is reported as being a tense, dramatic characterisation of seven people who arc swept together from the far corners of the earth to find the course of their lives changed through their journey aboard the Orient Express as it speeds from Ostend to Constantinople.. . The story concerns itself with a dancer, hungry and looking for work; a wealthy young merchant, who tails in love with the dancer; a Cockney, under the thumb of his domineering wife; a thief, fleeing from justice; a beautiful girl, thirsting for love; and a woman reporter, seeping to uncover the plans of a powerful Communist leader. All are aboard the Orient Express, each heading for his own particular destination. As the train reaches the Jugoslavian border, and the Communist leader is about to be arrested, he gives an incriminating letter to the dancer. This leads to her arrest. The thief, the Communist leader, and the dancer are removed from the train and are held as prisoners. While in prison, the thief plans an escape, sends the other two out into the night, and remains behind with the hope of securing a pardon. . The film is said to end in a climax of whirlwind action and tender romance. Heather and Norman Foster play the romantic leads. The other members of the cast are Ralph Morgan, Herbert Mundin, Una 0 Connor, Irene Ware, Dorothy Burgess, Lisa Gora, William Irving, Roy _ D Arcy. Perry Ivins, Fredrik Vogeding, and Marc Lobe!l.