Orient Express (1934 film)

Orient Express is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by Paul Martin and starring Heather Angel, Norman Foster and Ralph Morgan.

It is based on the 1932 novel Stamboul Train by Graham Greene, the first of his works to be adapted for the screen.

The film is part of a group set almost entirely on trains or ocean liners during the decade.

Reviews were generally negative with the New York Herald Tribune noting "the story is a tangle of loose ends and rough edges which grows increasingly obscure as the tale unwinds" while the New York Times critic felt "the earlier sequences are pieced together in a crude way, and the latter ones are unbelievable".

[4] This was in line with a wider poor reception of releases by Fox before the merger with Darryl F. Zanuck's Twentieth Century Pictures revived the company's production quality.