The Silk Express (1933)
As the demand for raw silk goes sky high, crooked businessman Wallace Myton corners the market with plans to drive up the price. Determined to fulfill his contracts, manufacturer Donald Kilgore imports $3 million worth of silk to Seattle and accompanies it by special train to New York. But when his secretary is found murdered, Kilgore soon discovers Myton has planted three killers on board with orders to stop the express and its passengers dead in their tracks.
- Date of release
- 1933-06-01
- TMDB
- 5.0 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 1m
- Genres
- Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Director
- Ray Enright
Casting
- Neil Hamilton — Donald Kilgore
- Sheila Terry — Paula Nyberg
- Arthur Byron — Conductor Clark
- Guy Kibbee — Railway Detective McDuff
- Dudley Digges — Professor Axel Nyberg
- Arthur Hohl — Wallace Myton
- Allen Jenkins — Robert 'Rusty' Griffith
- Harold Huber — Train Guard Craft
- G. Pat Collins — Train Guard Harry Burns
- Robert Barrat — Mr. Calhoun, Attorney
- Vernon Steele — Dr. Harold Rolph
- Ivan F. Simpson — Johnson, Kilgore's Secretary
Interesting facts
The Silk Express is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Ray Enright and written by Houston Branch and Ben Markson. The film, starring Neil Hamilton, Sheila Terry, Arthur Byron, Guy Kibbee, Dudley Digges and Arthur Hohl, was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on June 10, 1933.
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