The film stars Edmund Lowe, Ralph Forbes, Shirley Grey, Hedda Hopper, Onslow Stevens, and Jameson Thomas.

The cast of characters include the governor's wife, his two secretaries, a gambler, an entertainer who is not quite what she seems, a mineralogist on his way to claim a ruby field, a pickpocket, an anti-British agitator, and a cobra.

[1][7] The New York Times called it "an agreeably effective little shiver item" that would keep its "audience in a state of confusion" with its plot twists and deaths.

[3] The Michigan Daily compared it unfavorably to Shanghai Express but without the presence of Marlene Dietrich and commented on the "unnatural settings" and "decidedly unlike a train interior", ending with an "it could be worse".

[1] Two of Roemheld's scores from the film, "Shirley Theme #3" and "Bombay Station," were reused in the late 1930s by Universal Pictures in its Flash Gordon series.