UNUSUAL TYPE OF THRILLER

Evening Star, Issue 21878, 15 November 1934, Page 3

UNUSUAL TYPE OF THRILLER

1 THE SILK EXPRESS ' FOR STRAND Booked for the Strand to-morrow, ‘ Silk Express ’ is a very unusual sort of mystery, photographed almost entirely on board the only train that takes precedence over a President’s private special—the silk express. Spectacular scenes include rolling shots down inside the entire length of the speeding train—and many interesting and exciting shots of the loading silk train.

But it is the mystery aboard the train, the death of two of the passengers,* and the attempted killing of a third by a member of the group riding on the train which gives it the proper fillip of suspense. Everyone is suspected. Everyone, in fact, ,is justified in suspecting everyone else. For everyone else, at some time or another during the running of the film, docs something worthy of being suspected for. It is an excellent example of sustained suspense in a mystery film. The explanation of their presence on the train isf hound up with the state of the silk market of the world with the coming of spring. It is to be a silk year—Paris has sounded the keynote. But in New York the market ,is cornered, and the prices are run sky high. The silk manufacturers determine to run a silk train through from Seattle in record time, despite all efforts of those who have cornered the market to prevent the arrival of tho train in New York. Developments during this run end in the mystery already described.

A large east includes such outstanding players as Neil Hamilton, Sheila Terry, Guy Kibhee, Dudley Digges, Arthur Byron, Allen Jenkins, Harold Huber, Robert Barrat, Ivan Simpson, Arthur Hold, George Pat Collins, Tom Wilson, and others.