Streamline Express (1935)
1935 · Feature film · 70 min · dir. Leonard Fields
- Comedy
- Drama
- Mystery
Synopsis
A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director's feisty leading lady.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Leonard Fields
- Writer
- Wellyn Totman
- Cinematography
- Ernest Miller
- Studio
- Mascot Pictures
- Released
- 1935-09-15
- Running time
- 70 minutes
Cast & crew
- Leonard Fields Director
Victor Jory
Evelyn Venable
Esther Ralston
Erin O'Brien-Moore
Ralph Forbes
Sidney Blackmer
Vince Barnett
Clay Clement
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · This is a good one! · kareneliot · 2010-09-15
I really enjoyed this one, and I too found it predictable but I still highly recommend watching it. And I really dug that crazy-looking rocket train. The picture is crisp, and the volume is great. I wish all of the movies here had such outstanding picture and sound.
★★★★ · Funny · barticle · 2013-06-08
I actually thought this was a pretty funny movie, even the end. The film was originally released five days I was born. My parents might well have seen it on the weekend, for 25 cents admission. Not a great movie, but a good one.
★★★ · Lightweight Barely Amusing Skeeball Comedy · Poohbah70 · 2019-10-02
A paint by numbers script that is by turns interesting, almost humorous, slow-moving, and very predictable. An unfortunate take on Howard Hawkes brilliant "Twentieth Century" of 1934. IMO, Victor Jory made a better dramatic than comedic actor, but does his best and is not awful, just not funny. Evelyn Venable is okay. Actually, Sidney Blackmer and Esther Ralston add more to the movie than the nominal stars, as does Ralph Forbes. Otherwise, the movie is flat, and lacks that spark which makes screwball comedy both screwball and comedy. Nice on a very rainy afternoon. Three stars because its not…
★★★ · A rainy day romance-comedy · awww · 2026-02-11
Generally enjoyable, and as someone else points out, a comfortable rainy day movie. I didn't feel heavily invested in the characters, the sub-plots feel a bit macguffined, and the background stories are hardly memorable - although the expectant father has a funny twist at the end, as does the wandering lush! 3 out of 5 stars.
I had this copied direct from 16mm · filmbuff63 · 2013-06-08
I had this title direct from a 16mm print copied direct from 16mm without any of those foolish, needless and invasive watermarks "distributors" feel they need to deface the movies with. I would never consider putting a logo or a watermark on a public domain title to denote that I ''own" the rights to that particular copy.
