The Silk Express (Warner Bros.) (1933)

WARNER BROS. MERCHANDISING PLAN FO The SILK EXPRESS NEIL HAMILTON — SHEILA TERRY — GUY KIBBEE — ARTHUR BYRC DL SLEY DIGGES— ALLEN JENKINS—HAROLD HUBER— ROBERT BARRA Cast of Characters é Kilgore Neil Hamilton Paula Sheila Terry McDuff Guy Kibbee Clark Arthur Byron Nyberg Dudley Digges Rusty Allen Jenkins Craft Harold Huber Myton : Arthur Hohl Burns George Pat Collins Calhoun : Robert Barrat Dr. Ralph First Associate Silk Manufacturer Vernon Steele Edward Van Sloan Johnson Ivan Simpson Second Associate Silk Manufacturer Douglas Dumbrille Production Staff Directed by Ray Enright Sereen Play by Based on a Story by Houston Branch and Ben Markson Houston Branch Photography by Fila Editor Dialogue Director Art Director Gowns by Tony Gaudio Ralph Dawson Stanley Logan Ksdras Hartley Orry-Kelly Vitaphone Orchestra Conducted by Leo F. Forbstein Length 5,512 Feet Running Time 61 Minutes Official Billing Warner Bros. Pictures. Inc. and The Vitaphone Corp 25% present “THE SILK EXPRESS” 100% Directed by Ray Enright 20% A Warner Bros, and Vitaphone Picture 40% The Story Wallace Myton and associates cor-| sumed that benzine had been poured ner the silk market and try to hold) down a vent and that the fumes had up the manufacturers for an exorbi| killed the wounded sec retary. tant price. Kilgore, a ge cise Kilgore decides to leave the body gets the manufacturers to refuse his | he é til the t terms and import $3,000,000 in. silk ar until the rain reaches a from Japan. They have only a lim-|twn where there is a coroner. But ited time to meet their contracts so aj it is halted at a small station by special silk express is chartered to| McDuff, a hick detective, who has in bring the raw material from Seattle some way received a message telling tn New -Yotk. him of the murder. He refuses to let Silk rust is found in some of the the Ene ee ae bales and the government inspector Kilgore locks him in a stateroom decides to hold up the whole ship-| #4 orders the train to proceed. ment. Calhoun, a special attorney, Burns and Craft believe that Myton arranges for the release of the train. | '§ double crossing them and intends to But before it starts Burns and Craft, | ™plicate them in the murder. They two train guards in the employ of discover that Clark, the conductor, Myton, try to insert a defective | Sent the message to the detective. coupling pin. They are discovered by Later, Clark is found dead. Johnson, Kilgore’s secretary. The} Nyberg indicates he knows someguards hit him over the head and| thing about the murder, but he can throw him in a silk car, leaving him) neither talk nor write. <A_ series of for dead, but are unable to complete | signals are arranged to which the prothe job of switching pins. fessor winks his eyes yes or no. While Just as the train is about to pull he is being questioned by the signals, out, Dr. Ralph rushes up to Kilgore | the train is plunged into darkness. with a Professor Nyberg and_ his Kilgore grabs someone’s hand. When daughter Paula and begs to be taken the lights come on again, they find it to New York. Nyberg has been|!s Craft. The palm of his hand is stricken with sleeping sickness and | wet and Kilgore deducts that Craft will die, according to the doctor, unhad killed € lark with an icicle, by less he reaches the Rockefeller Instithrusting it into his Bat boo and was tute in quick time. Kilgore consents | attempting to kill Nyberg in the is take Shem same way. Burns and Clark hold the ae ss . | crowd up and start to back out of : After the trates peal A the car when Rusty, apparently a is discovered in the car where Johntramp, comes up from behind ‘and son was thrown. The fire is extin guished and the body found. But it raptures. them. ; = is not in the spot where Burns and| Rusty proves to be a representative Craft left it and they realize he must | of Lloyds, who was on the train to have come to and been killed later.| protect the silk because of the heavy As the car was sealed, it is pre-| insurance. Hurtling across the con tinent in a mad race... against miles and minutes...claiming right-ofway over human happiness and human life..., freighted with hate, greed, murder and love « « « roars Cut No. If one minute is lost— A great industry will be paralyzed... A merchant prince will be ruined... A murderer will escape . . . A hero will be dagen . An eminent scientist will die. . . And this girl will pay the greatest penalty of all! SEE THESE 8 STARS Each playing an incredible part in 1933’s most baffling thriller! NEIL HAMILTON SHEILA TERRY ARTHUR BYRON GUY KIBBEE ALLEN JENKINS HAROLD HUBER DUDLEY DIGGES ROBERT BARRAT A Warner Bros. Picture il Cut 40c Mat 10¢ 342 LINES y ec