Cruel Train
(2022, original release: 1996)

Fiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

Details

PUBLISHED
BBC Studios, 1996
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2022
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
13643333
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Title from title frames

Based on Emile Zola's 'La Bete Humaine', this stylish film noir is set in Britain during the Blitz. Ruben Roberts discovers he owes everything - job and home - to the sexual favours forced upon his wife by her rich and powerful godfather. Assisted by his wife, Ruben murders him on the Brighton Express. A witness has to be silenced

Film

In Process Record

Adrian Dunbar, David Suchet, Minnie Driver, Richard Ridings, Saskia Reeves, Sheila Reid

Originally produced by BBC Studios in 1996

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In English

Additional Credits