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Paradise Express
USA 1937
produced by Nate Levine, Sol C. Siegel (associate) for Republic
directed by Joseph Kane
starring Grant Withers, Dorothy Appleby, Arthur Hoyt, Maude Eburne, Harry Davenport, Donald Kirke, Arthur Lofte, Lew Kelly, Anthony Paley, Fern Emmett, John Holland, Robert McClung, Bruce Mitchell, Guy Wilkerson, George Cleveland, Ralph McCullough
story by Allan Vaughan Elston, Paul Perez, screenplay by Jack Natteford, Betty Burbridge
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Upstart Armstrong (Donald Kirke) tries to by and by run the competition
to his truck company out of business by cutting their rates and the like.
Old man Carson's (Harry Davenport) train company is especially hard hit,
and it's put under receivership soon enough. Carson hates his receiver
Doyle (Grant Withers) without ever even meeting him, too, but Doyle
actually cares for Carson's company, throws in with Carson's granddaughter
Kay (Dorothy Appleby), and together they try to win back customers from
Armstrong ... but their efforts are answered with sabotage, culminating in
the derailment of a freight train that kills its engineer and almost
causes a mutiny among Carson's workers. However, Doyle eventually
challenges Armstrong to a train versus truck race, and despite all efforts
of Armstrong to sabotage the train's progress, the train wins by a hair -
plus Doyle and company could collect enough evidence along the way to put
Armstrong behind bars ... Oh, and Doyle gets the girl (Kay) of course. Paradise
Express is most certainly not a great film or even something you'll
remember for long - but it's a nice straight-forward little thriller that
might be on the simplistic side, but is well-paced enough to make one
forget that, and it doesn't skimp on truck and train action, so even if
you're not too much into the film's run of the mill story, you'll at least
some good vintage engines and cars ...
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