Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

ShangLuda Admirable film.

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Cristi_Ciopron A cool British thriller with Edmund Lowe and Constance Cummings, with an eventful storyline and a thoughtful plot, written by Gilliatt; the idea belongs to the pulp tropes, and in fact to the 19th-early 20th century popular fiction, with sinister secret associations and conspiracies, but the identity of the major villain, though obvious, is nonetheless surprising, anyway highly unusual. There are many piquant one-liners, and a sense of the quaint, well conveyed by a few striking physiognomies, foreboded by the opening scenes at the carnival in Southern France, with the mask …. The leads' performances are very generic, which matches the script (where these characters aren't endowed with exceptional insight, but with wit and dynamism, the leads are keen on clues, but not on moral insight, and the gullible and unsuspecting New York detective tips the villain and provides him with the necessary information), as well as the movie's focus on the villains for the suspense and chills.It has a fantastic, dreamlike feel, feverish; Thomy Bourdelle is a villain as obvious but also as effective, as Mowbray in 'Terror by Night'. It's a reminder of how British were Hitchcock's '30s movies.Those who already like the '30s British cinema don't need any further recommendations. Therefore, I would recommend the British 'Seven Sinners' to both Hitchcock's fans, and 'Fantômas'' fans.

MartinHafer Edmund Lowe was not an especially handsome man, but he had a nice, carefree acting style that I have always found endearing. Because of this, even a relatively routine film like "Doomed Cargo" is well worth watching. In this film, Lowe is ably assisted by Constance Cummings--another American actor--though she later specialized in making British films and moved to the UK for good.The movie begins in an odd way--Lowe is dressed as a devil for a party and his tail is shut in a door--and he cannot move. But that's not the only thing weird about this party, as Lowe finds a dead man--and no one believes him because when they return the corpse is gone. But, to make things even weirder, after a train wreck, Lowe finds this same body among the dead in the wreckage! It seems someone went to a lot of trouble to disguise this as an accident. The film eventually leads to the trail of arms merchants and it's up to Lowe and Cummings to work it all out--with lots of witty repartee along the way. Smooth, easy-going and fun--this is a better B-mystery film--reasonably well written and enjoyable.

vaughan.birbeck Neil-117 is quite correct, the film makers were given permission by the Southern Railway to smash an old locomotive and carriages into a lorry on a disused branch line, hence the spectacular train crash.I think his other comments are a little unfair. The film is taken from a play called 'The Wrecker' by Arnold Ridley (who also wrote 'The Ghost Train' and later became Private Godfrey in 'Dad's Army'). The whole point of the plot is that a serial murderer is staging train crashes to disguise his crimes.Of course the film is dated but it's good, well-paced entertainment. If you enjoy Hitchcock's British thrillers (especially 'The Lady Vanishes', also a Launder and Gilliatt screenplay) you'll like this one.

Neil-117 Mildly amusing scenario of US private detective and female insurance investigator battling for supremacy in solving a series of murders in Europe. Will they kiss and make up in the end? The bad guys are suitably sinister and new ones keep popping up just when you thought you had it all figured out. The script writer must have been short on inspiration as the same device of a train wreck is used no less than three times. But those action sequences are well filmed and I'd swear one of the crashing steam locomotives is the real thing.