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The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
A Non-Stop Suspense Thriller
A Dutch company's owner bankrupts his own company, burns the incriminating ledgers and plans to run to Paris with the company funds but he is caught in the act by his accountant who challenges his actions, leading to a reversal of roles.
- Original title
- The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
- Language
- EN
- Country
- GB
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Sep 9, 2022 · via TMDB
Claude Rains ("Mr. Popinga") discovers that his boss (Herbert Lom) has been fiddling the books, and so bankrupting his company - so he can abscond to Paris with his fancy woman. When he catches his employer in the act of burning his ledgers, the two have a contretemps near a canal that has tragic results. Instead of Lom, it is Rains who heads to Paris where he meets the aforementioned lady (the glamorous, but wooden, Märta Torén), and her rather unpleasant friends - including the real love of her life "Louis" (Ferdy Mayne) - who want the money he brought with him from Holland, and which he has rather prudently hidden. All of this has not gone unnoticed by "Lucas" (Marius Goring) who was already investigating some curious currency transactions before alighting on Lom's company, and now on his suspected former chief clerk. It is quite an nice film to look at - Paris in the early 1950s was an attractive city which this photography shows off well, but the plot takes far too long to get going and though Rains is on good form as the mild mannered man whose attitudes are changed by necessity (and who finds that he has quite a taste for a life that lots of money can buy) really quite well, he receives little by way of support from anyone else - except, perhaps, Goring and the pace is just slow with no real conclusion...
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Claude Rains
Kees Popinga
Marius Goring
Inspector Lucas
Märta Torén
Michele Rozier
Anouk Aimée
Jeanne
Herbert Lom
Julius de Koster, Jr.
Lucie Mannheim
Maria Popinga
Felix Aylmer
Merkemans
Ferdy Mayne
Louis
Eric Pohlmann
Goin
Michael Nightingale
Clerk
Gibb McLaughlin
Julius de Koster Snr.
Roy Purcell
Pierre
MacDonald Parke
American Businessman
Mary Mackenzie
Madame Lucas
Pat Ryan
Joie de Vivre Patron (uncredited)
Otto Heller
Director of Photography
Harold French
Director
Peter R. Hunt
Editor
Georges Simenon
Novel
Harold French
Screenplay
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Chase a Crooked Shadow
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Emperor of the North
Panic
Human Desire
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
Home at Seven
The Grifters
Lassie
The Criminal
Narrow Margin
Anthony Zimmer
Blues in the Night
Bucharest - Vienna, 8:15
The Flanagan Boy
Corridor of Mirrors
They Drive by Night
Our Ten Years
Murder Is My Beat
The Marker
The Desolate Beach
Last Train to Freo
Finders Keepers
Wild Seed
Let the Cat Out of the Bag
Mercy Street
Night and the City
The Unforgivable
The Getaway
High Sierra
The Big Combo
Point Blank
Underworld U.S.A.
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
The Killers
Siberian Education
Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
Hoodlum
Ill Manors
Belly
Fast Charlie
Kill Me Again
True Believer
The Public Eye
Panic
The Most Hated Woman in America
God Is a Bullet
Blood Ties
Inside Man
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Winged Creatures
Cass
Suburbicon
Jun 5, 1953
