Original National Film Library 7 1/2 inch x 9 1/2 inch Still
Film Stills and Portraits
ROME EXPRESS
£160.00
Original National Film Library 7 1/2 inch x 9 1/2 inch Still of JOAN BARRY & HAROLD HUTH in the 1932 Walter Forde Classic British Comedy Thriller ROME EXPRESS, based on a story by Clifford Grey with a screenplay by Sidney Gilliat.
The film was produced by Michael Balcon of Ealing Studios fame.
The action takes place almost entirely on the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits train the Rome Express, travelling between Paris and Rome. A sinister character (Conrad Veidt) boards the train on the trail of a valuable Van Dyke painting, recently stolen from a Paris art gallery. Much to his annoyance he finds the train populated with a motley assortment of passengers. including adulterous lovers, a wealthy philanthropist, a golf fanatic, a French police chief and an American silent-film star – any one of whom could have the painting he desperately seeks…
This was the first film to come from the new Gaumont-British Studios at Shepherds Bush and was described at the time as “the best full length film ever made in this country”.
The still is in very good condition with a fine crease in the lower right corner and glue residue on the reverse corners which does not bleed through to the front.
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