Film Forum

U.S., 1952
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Starring Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Gordon Gebert
Approx. 72 min. 35mm/DCP.

Train ride from Hell, as taunting prize witness (Marie Windsor as a side-switching gangster's widow) makes things rough for ambivalent dick Charles McGraw, as he fends off non-stop hoods en route to a grand jury. By the author of Detour

Presented with support from The Robert Jolin Osborne Endowed Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s

Reviews

“... charged with very moral nitroglycerine but confers a grace that any sweaty driver of a heavy, slow-moving vehicle might envy.”
– Francois Truffaut

“Breathlessly fast and highly suspenseful sleeper par excellence.” 
– Time Out