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Rail Pirates
Directed byChristian-Jaque
Written byArno-Charles Brun
Christian-Jaque
Oscar Paul Gilbert
Based onRail Pirates
by Oscar Paul Gilbert
Produced byAdolphe Osso
Gilbert Renault-Decker
StarringCharles Vanel
Suzy Prim
Erich von Stroheim
CinematographyAndré Germain
Pierre Lebon
Marcel Lucien
Edited byWilliam Barache
Music byHenri Verdun
Production
companies
Films Renault-Decker
Les Films Osso 
Distributed byComptoir Français du Film
Release date
  • 19 January 1938 (1938-01-19)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Rail Pirates (French: Les pirates du rail) is a 1938 French adventure film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Charles Vanel, Suzy Prim and Erich von Stroheim.[1][2] It was shot at the Victorine Studios in Nice and on location in the Camargue. The film's sets were designed by the art director Pierre Schild. It is based on a novel of the same title by the Belgian writer Oscar Paul Gilbert, who also contributed to the screenplay.[3]

Synopsis

Henri Pierson, an engineer on a railway running through Yunnan in China, tries to resist a series of bandit attacks on the train. Things come to a head when his wife Marie is taken as a hostage but the local warlord.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Lennig p.384
  2. ^ Evans p.37
  3. ^ Goble p.180

Bibliography

  • Crisp, Colin. French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 1, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2015.
  • Evans, Martin. Empire and Culture: The French Experience, 1830-1940. Springer, 2004.
  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Lennig, Arthur. Stroheim. University Press of Kentucky, 2004.

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