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Streamline Express


Date: 1935
Type: Drama / Comedy
Rating: 2 Stars 2/5
Colour: Black and White
Director: Leonard Fields
Producer: Nat levine

Comment/Synopsis

A group of disparate passengers travel across America on a futuristic high speed monrail train. This includes a theatrical producer (Victor Jory) trying to get his leading lady (Evelyn Venable) back to perform instead of running away to marry and a woman (Mary O'Brian-Moore) trying to stop her husband running away with another woman (Esther Ralston). The plot is not great and most of the film is shot inside the train which is more like a small art decco hotel than a train. It is meant to be futureistic but is not realistic as a train. The best performances are from Evelyn Venable as the actress and Esther Ralston as the woman having an affair as part of one of the minor plots. the plot has similarities to Twentieth Century made the year before by Howard Hawks.

Actors


Victor JoryVictor Jory
Evelyn VenableEvelyn Venable
Esther RalstonEsther Ralston
Erin O'Brian-Moore
Ralph ForbesRalph Forbes
Sydney Blackmer
Vince BarnettVince Barnett
Clay Clement

Oscars

None
Production
Mascot Pictures
Streamline Express