When her scientist-employer is murdered, a female legal immigrant suddenly finds herself being deported via a train full of criminal aliens, g-men, reporters - and foreign agents trying to smuggle her off and into the hands of the murderous gang.
Acting
Anna Sten's tragic eyes sell nonsense plot at full price.
Production
One train set, infinite criminal economies.
Director
Otis Garrett
Anna Sten
Nadine Nikolas
Alan Marshal
Steve Reynolds
Leonid Kinskey
Lead Henchman David
Jed Prouty
Editor Hanley
Walter Catlett
Reporter Gus
Addison Richards
Chief G-Man Purnell
Etienne Girardot
Hotel Caretaker Herman
Jerome Cowan
Paul Brandt
Harry Davenport
Dr. Hite
Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
Kaishevshy
Stanley Fields
Tony Kassam
George Chandler
Marvln McGee
Maude Eburne
Mrs. Smith
Spencer Charters
Justice Henry P. Smith
Don Brodie
Lead Agent Aboard Train
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released the same year as the St. Louis refugee ship was turned away from Miami—this film's cheery immigration narrative lands very differently in context.
Anna Sten was Goldwyn's failed 'next Garbo'—this B-picture exile from prestige cinema mirrors her character's deportation, cruelly.
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