"ROME EXPRESS” AT KING’S

Taranaki Daily News, 6 October 1934, Page 20 (Supplement)

"ROME EXPRESS” AT KING’S

The most distinguished cast ever assembled for a British picture is seen in “The Rome Express,” which will be screened at the King’s Theatre next Saturday, the first talkie made at the New Gaumont-British £250,000. studios, situated at Shepherd’s Bush, just outside of the great metropolis of London. All the action in this film takes place on the famous trans-Continental train and it is a film without a hero. Actually the subject was thought of long before the present fashion began for films in one setting, like “Grand Hotel” and “Shanghai Express.” Joan Barry appears in “Rome Express” as a married woman who is having an affair with a married man, Harold Huth. Muriel Aked is a spinster who pesters Miss Barry on the train, and Gordon Harker is a friend who gets in Harold Huth’s way. Donald Calthrop is a crook fleeing from his associates, and the chief of these is Conrad Veidt, the famous German actor. Cedric Hardwicke is a parsimonious Scotch millionaire and Esther Ralston is a film star on board the train. There is a murder on the train, and the dead body of the crook found in Harold Huth’s compartment causes no little inconvenience to his intrigue with Joan Barry.