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The Silk Express

4.7 61 mins Drama   Mystery   Thriller   1933
Warner Bros. Pictures  
Director(s): Ray Enright

As the demand for raw silk goes sky high, crooked businessman Wallace Myton corners the market with plans to drive up the price. Determined to fulfill his contracts, manufacturer Donald Kilgore imports $3 million worth of silk to Seattle and accompanies it by special train to New York. But when his secretary is found murdered, Kilgore soon discovers Myton has planted three killers on board with orders to stop the express and its passengers dead in their tracks.

Casts of The Silk Express

Neil Hamilton

as Donald Kilgore

Sheila Terry

as Paula Nyberg

Arthur Byron

as Conductor Clark

Guy Kibbee

as Railway Detective McDuff

Dudley Digges

as Professor Axel Nyberg

Arthur Hohl

as Wallace Myton

Allen Jenkins

as Robert 'Rusty' Griffith

Harold Huber

as Train Guard Craft

G. Pat Collins

as Train Guard Harry Burns

Robert Barrat

as Mr. Calhoun, Attorney

Vernon Steele

as Dr. Harold Rolph

Ivan F. Simpson

as Johnson, Kilgore's Secretary

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