A cobbling together of plot elements from 'Stamboul Train', 'Murder on the Orient Express', Rome Express and The Lady Vanishes, with the central McGuffin of a stolen diary which can start wars.
Jean Kent and Albert Lieven are the couple on the trail of the diary, which has been stolen by their former accomplice Alan Wheatley. David Tomlinson is the Most Annoying Man on the Train. Derrick de Marney and Rona Anderson are having an affair, Bonnar Colleano is there for (an ounce of) comic relief, Finlay Currie is the cruel employer of Hugh Burden, Paul Dupuis is the French Inspector, Gregoire Aslan the chef, who has to listen to recipes of disgusting British classics.
Allan Mackinnon wrote it, from an 'original idea' by Clifford Grey. Jack Hildyard shot it. There isn't much of Benjamin Frankel's music in it.
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