Sleeping Car (film)

Sleeping Car
Directed by	Anatole Litvak
Written by	Michael Gordon Anatole Litvak Roland Pertwee Franz Schulz
Produced by	Michael Balcon
Starring	Madeleine Carroll Ivor Novello Laddie Cliff
Cinematography	Günther Krampf Glen MacWilliams
Edited by	Henri Rust
Music by	Bretton Byrd Louis Levy
Production company	Gaumont British Picture Corporation
Distributed by	Ideal Films
Release date	June 1933
Running time	82 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Sleeping Car is a 1933 British romantic comedy film directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Madeleine Carroll, Ivor Novello, Stanley Holloway and Laddie Cliff.

It was made at the Lime Grove Studios in London. The film's art direction was by Alfred Junge.

Synopsis

A young French sleeping car attendant working on the trans-European Orient Express has a string of different lovers at the various stations along the line. However his world is transformed when he meets a young British aristocrat, who he asks out for a date in Vienna but has to abandon because of a lack of funds. Angry with him she returns to Paris, while he is fired for taking time-off without permission. However, discovering that due to various driving offences her stay in France will be cut short unless she marries a French citizen, she decides to marry him.

Cast

• Madeleine Carroll as Anne
• Ivor Novello as Gaston
• Laddie Cliff as Pierre
• Kay Hammond as Simone
• Claud Allister as Baron Delande
• Stanley Holloway as Francois
• Vera Bryer as Jenny
• Ivor Barnard as Durande

Bibliography

• Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
• Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

• Sleeping Car at IMDb