Exile Express
| Exile Express | |
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| Directed by | Otis Garrett |
| Produced by | Eugene Frenke (producer) |
| Written by |
Ethel La Blanche (writer) Edwin Justus Mayer (writer) |
| Starring |
Anna Sten Alan Marshal Jerome Cowan Walter Catlett |
| Music by | George Parrish |
| Cinematography | John J. Mescall |
| Edited by |
Edward Curtiss Robert Bischoff |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Grand National Pictures |
Release dates | May 27, 1939 |
Running time | 71 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Exile Express is a 1939 American drama film directed by Otis Garrett and starring Anna Sten, Alan Marshal and Jerome Cowan.
Plot
After being wrongly implicated in the murder of her scientist boss by foreign agents, a young immigrant woman is placed on board an "exile express" from California to New York City where she is to be deported from Ellis Island. With the help of a journalist who has fallen in love with her, she jumps the train and sets out to prove her innocence.
Production
It was the first film Sten had made in the United States since leaving her contract with Samuel Goldwyn after The Wedding Night (1935). Since then Sten had appeared in a single film A Woman Alone (1936) in Britain. Exile Express was made by the small Grand National Pictures, which went out of business the same year after producing several large-budgeted films which didn't recoup their costs.
Cast
- Anna Sten as Nadine Nikolas
- Alan Marshal as Steve Reynolds
- Jerome Cowan as Paul Brandt
- Walter Catlett as Gus
- Jed Prouty as Hanley
- Stanley Fields as Tony Kassan
- Leonid Kinskey as David
- Etienne Girardot as Caretaker
- Irving Pichel as Victor
- Harry Davenport as Dr. Hite
- Addison Richards as Purnell
- Feodor Chaliapin Jr. as Kaishevshy
- Spencer Charters as Justice of the Peace Henry P. Smith
- Byron Foulger as Serge
- Don Brodie as Mullins
- Henry Roquemore as Constable
- Vince Barnett as Deputy Constable
- Maude Eburne as Mrs. Smith
External links
- Exile Express at the Internet Movie Database
- Exile Express is available for free download at the Internet Archive