Peking Express.

Duration: 85 min.

Genre: adventure

Year Published: 1951

Creator: Paramount Pictures Corp.

Format: 35mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Credits: Cast: Joseph Cotten, Corinne Calvet

Description: Doctor Michael Bachlin (Joseph Cotten) is in Shanghai investigating a missing shipment of medical supplies for the United Nations's World Health Organization. He must travel to Peking on the express train with other passengers, Father Joseph Murray (Edmund Gwenn), and Kwon (Marvin Miller), a mysterious businessman. Another passenger is nightclub singer and former lover, Danielle Grenier (Corinne Calvet) who Michael met earlier in Paris. The train is attacked by counter-revolutionary forces with the soldiers on board surrendering, but summarily shot. Kwon is the attackers' leader who has the passengers driven to

Complete Record: PEKING EXPRESS. Paramount Pictures Corp., 1951. 85 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. A remake of the 1932 picture entitled “Shanghai Express.” Based on the story, “Shanghai Express,” by Harry Hervey. © Paramount Pictures Corp.; 1Aug51; LP1080.

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