The Gold Express

Even an inconsequential little potboiler like this, clocking in at under an hour and with obviously post-synced dialogue, is enhanced by the record it provides of the noble age of steam with occasional familiar faces in the cast (inevitably including Sam Kydd), handsome photography and an even more handsome femme fatale in the seductive form of Delphi Lawrence (looking like a character from something far weightier in an expensive-looking black outfit with a gun in her handbag). Veteran stage actress Ivy St. Helier is top-billed, but actually only plays the comic relief.