John Wayne

Tully Marshall

Conway Tearle

Shirley Grey

Edmund Breese

Lloyd Whitlock

Al Bridge

Matthew Betz

Joseph W. Girard

James P. Burtis

Ernie Adams

Charles King

J. Farrell MacDonald

Al Ferguson

Glenn Strange

Fred 'Snowflake' Toones

Yakima Canutt

Wyndham Gittens

J.P. McGowan

Nat Levine

Harold Tarshis

Barney A. Sarecky

Colbert Clark

Armand Schaefer

George Morgan

Ray Snyder

Carl Wester

Ernest Miller

Lee Zahler

Adventure

Mystery

Crime

Action

The Hurricane Express

Mascot Pictures

United States of America

English

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John Wayne is "Larry", an airline pilot who only just manages to land his plane in a field and rush to the scene of a railway accident in which his father, the driver, has perished. He is livid and when he discovers that this was sabotage, he determines to track down the culprit. Meantime we discover just who is behind these attacks - but that he has quite a legitimate axe to grind against an all-conquering railroad that rode rough shod over people and townships alike during it's construction. There's no doubt as to the conclusion of this feature film - a condensed version that is based around the first few and the last few parts of a twelve part serialisation, and it is largely filmed as if it were a silent movie with a sound effects disc running efficiently now and again in the background to liven it up. What dialogue there is, is delivered in a seriously stilted fashion suggesting the actors were reading cue cards just out of shot and so isn't the most natural. The photography is basic, but it's also quite exciting at times when it's on the trains and we are whizzing around at speed. I don't think this abridged version is particularly good nor memorable but I do reckon it could have made for quite an entertaining week-to-week serial with cliffhanger endings each time. It's watchable as a piece of low-budget cinema nostalgia - it illustrates gently that just as the plane is overtaking the train, sound movies are overtaking the silent ones.

The Hurricane Express

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