SLEEPING CAR TO TRIESTE
(Rank-Two Cities) N the good old days before the war one of the cheapest and easiest ways of making a thriller was to bundle two or three stars and an assortment of character actors into the wagon-lit section of a trans-Continental train and send them trundling across the frontiers of Europe. It was the old Grand Hotel "slice of life’ technique (with the difference that the train provided an element of movement that might otherwise have been lacking), and it produced several good films of which Rome Express and The Lady Vanishes are perhaps the best remembered, During the war, of course, this traffic was at a standstill and frustrated producers were forced to make do with aeroplanes which had to crash in the Swiss Alps or the Indo-Chinese jungle before the cast, could get room to develop. Now, however, there are indications that we are getting back on to the permanent way again. A few months ago Berlin Express chuffed cautiously through Bizonia and on the Orient route we have now got as far as the Iron Curtain. But like the railway services, the pic_tures are not yet up to pre-war standdards.. Sleeping Car to Trieste contains several neat thumbnail charactersketches, but has not much else to commend it.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 528, 5 August 1949, Page 20
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214SLEEPING CAR TO TRIESTE New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 528, 5 August 1949, Page 20
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