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Exile Express is a 1939 American drama film directed by Otis Garrett and starring Anna Sten, Alan Marshal and Jerome Cowan.

SYNOPSIS
Foreign spies, relentless in their quest to obtain a deadly poison formula, resort to murder against American scientists. Meanwhile, a young immigrant woman finds herself wrongly accused of her scientist boss's murder by these foreign agents. Sentenced to deportation on an "exile express" from California to New York City, she joins forces with a journalist who harbors affection for her, evading authorities as they embark on a mission to clear her name.

CAST & CREW
Anna Sten as Nadine Nikolas
Alan Marshal as Steve Reynolds
Jerome Cowan as Paul Brandt
Walter Catlett as Gus
Jed Prouty as Hanley
Stanley Fields as Tony Kassan
Leonid Kinskey as David
Etienne Girardot as Caretaker
Irving Pichel as Victor
Harry Davenport as Dr. Hite
Addison Richards as Purnell
Feodor Chaliapin Jr. as Kaishevshy
Spencer Charters as Justice of the Peace Henry P. Smith
Byron Foulger as Serge
Don Brodie as Mullins
Henry Roquemore as Constable
Vince Barnett as Deputy Constable
Maude Eburne as Mrs. Smith

Directed by: Otis Garrett
Written by: Ethel La Blanche, Edwin Justus Mayer
Produced by: Eugene Frenke
Starring: Anna Sten, Alan Marshal, Jerome Cowan, Walter Catlett
Cinematography by: John J. Mescall
Edited by: Edward Curtiss, Robert Bischoff
Music by: George Parrish
Production company: Grand National Pictures
Distributed by: Grand National Pictures
Release date: May 27, 1939
Running time: 71 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English

NOTES
It was the first film Sten had made in the United States since leaving her contract with Samuel Goldwyn after The Wedding Night (1935). Since then Sten had appeared in a single film A Woman Alone (1936) in Britain. Exile Express was made by the small Grand National Pictures, which went out of business the same year after producing several large-budgeted films which didn't recoup their costs.

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