Rome Express is a 1932 British thriller film directed by Walter Forde and starring Esther Ralston and Conrad Veidt.

Another passenger, McBain, a wealthy businessman travelling with his brow-beaten secretary/valet, Mills, learns that a painting by Van Dyck, which he had previously tried to buy and which had later been stolen, has not been recovered and says he would do anything to obtain it.

Also on the train are an adulterous couple, an annoyingly sociable Englishman, a French police inspector, and an American film star who is tiring of her fame, accompanied by her manager/publicist.

When he agrees to join a poker game, he finds that one of the other players is Zurta, and Poole's reaction shows that they know each other.

As the police inspector begins to suspect him, Zurta leaps from the train in an attempt to escape, but is killed.