Sleeping Car to Trieste

1948
Approved
1h 35m

IMDb RATING

YOUR RATING

Jean Kent and Albert Lieven in Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948)

Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

737

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

More like this

6.6

Gideon of Scotland Yard

6.8

6.6

6.9

6.1

6.5

7.3

5.4

7.2

Night Train to Munich

6.7

Hollywood Story

6.2

Candlelight in Algeria

7.2

Jigsaw

Storyline

Edit

Did you know

Edit

Trivia
Finlay Currie had appeared in the earlier "Rome Express" as the brash American publicist of a movie star, a character not used in this film.

Goofs
When the sergeant and the bird enthusiast are getting acquainted, the background seen through the train window includes two large signs, both mirror-reversed.

Quotes
Poirier, the chef: ...cover with white wine, put it into the oven, and voilà, it's cooked.
Denning: I say, that's very neat isn't it? But do you really think cod's worth all that trouble?
Poirier, the chef: Trouble?
Denning: Yes, you see at home we just lower the jolly old creature into the boiling water, let it boil, serve it up with greens and chips.
Poirier, the chef: But you get no sauce...?
Denning: Oh good Lord yes - there's always a bottle of sauce around somewhere.

Connections
Remake of Rome Express (1932)

This is a remake of 1932's Rome Express, which is a far better film and stars the seedy and sinister Mr Dane Calthrop. This version is slow and plodding, and the humour is mainly heavy handed. There is an unnecessary subplot about an Englishman trying to explain English cookery to a French chef (I'm not going back to the Good Old Days - I remember that food).

Best things about this version are David Tomlinson as the old schoolfriend who turns up inappositely, and Hugh Burden as the put-upon secretary. The McGuffin is a diary containing secrets that might start a war with an unspecified country, rather than a stolen painting. The adulterous couple are sexless as only the English can be.

Jean Kent is always worth watching, but whoever designed her frumpy wardrobe should be condemned to selling long underwear in British Home Stores. That hat with the two horns - or are they ice cream cones? There is a subplot about two French girls who are smuggling model hats, and they are rather good, as is Bonar Colleano as a wisecracking American soldier. His wisecracks really are funny. His mate the birdwatcher is good, too.

But overall - it's as stodgy as an English suet pudding.