Rail Pirates

{{short description|1938 film}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Rail Pirates

| image = File:Rail Pirates.jpg

| caption =

| director = Christian-Jaque

| producer =Adolphe Osso
Gilbert Renault-Decker

| based_on = {{based on|Rail Pirates|Oscar Paul Gilbert}}

| writer = Arno-Charles Brun
Christian-Jaque
Oscar Paul Gilbert

| starring = Charles Vanel
Suzy Prim
Erich von Stroheim

| music =Henri Verdun

| cinematography =André Germain
Pierre Lebon
Marcel Lucien

| editing = William Barache

| studio =Films Renault-Decker
Les Films Osso

| distributor =Comptoir Français du Film

| released ={{Film date|1938|01|19|df=yes}}

| runtime = 89 minutes

| country = France

| language = French

| budget =

}}

Rail Pirates (French: Les pirates du rail) is a 1938 French adventure film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Charles Vanel, Suzy Prim and Erich von Stroheim.Lennig p.384Evans p.37 It was shot at the Victorine Studios in Nice and on location in the Camargue. The film's sets were designed by the art director Pierre Schild. It is based on a novel of the same title by the Belgian writer Oscar Paul Gilbert, who also contributed to the screenplay.Goble p.180

Synopsis

Henri Pierson, an engineer on a railway running through Yunnan in China, tries to resist a series of bandit attacks on the train. Things come to a head when his wife Marie is taken as a hostage but the local warlord.

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References

Bibliography

  • Crisp, Colin. French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 1, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2015.
  • Evans, Martin. Empire and Culture: The French Experience, 1830-1940. Springer, 2004.
  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Lennig, Arthur. Stroheim. University Press of Kentucky, 2004.