''Exile Express'' is a 1939 American

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directed by

Otis Garrett Otis Garrett (March 29, 1905 – March 24, 1941) was an American film editor, screenwriter and film director.Shelley p.150 Filmography Director * ''The Last Express (film), The Last Express'' (1938) * ''Danger on the Air'' (1938) * ''The Black Do ...

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

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where she is to be deported after her arrival at

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. With the help of a journalist who has fallen in love with her, she jumps the train and sets out to prove her innocence.

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 *

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as David * Etienne Girardot as Caretaker *

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as Victor * Harry Davenport as Dr. Hite *

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as Purnell * Feodor Chaliapin Jr. as Kaishevshy * Spencer Charters as Justice of the Peace Henry P. Smith *

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as Serge * Don Brodie as Mullins * Henry Roquemore as Constable * Vince Barnett as Deputy Constable * Maude Eburne as Mrs. Smith

Production

It was the first film Sten had made in the United States since leaving her contract with

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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 Grand National Films, Inc (or Grand National Pictures, Grand National Productions and Grand National Film Distributing Co.) was an American independent motion picture production-distribution company in operation from 1936 to 1939. The company ha ...

, which went out of business the same year after producing several large-budgeted films which didn't recoup their costs.

External links

* * 1939 films 1939 drama films American drama films American black-and-white films Grand National Films films Rail transport films Films directed by Otis Garrett 1930s English-language films 1930s American films {{1930s-drama-film-stub