Kees Popinga has been the head clerk for the Dutch DeKoster Company for a couple of decades. Kees has a wife, two children and he owns a small home Detective Marius Goring visits the firm and he has been investigating the them. Julius de Koster, Jr., the owner of the company has become infatuated with a Parisian girl, Micelle Rozier. He has cooked the books and there isn’t any money left in the company?? When Kees learns this information, he gets into a confrontation with Julius. There is an accident, Julius falls into the water near their building and he drowns. Earlier, Kees saw Julius kissing Michelle and he put her on the Paris Express train. Kees takes the suitcase full of money that Julius was carrying. He goes on the Paris Express to confront Michelle about the money!!
Kees has been working in his tiny office for a long time and he doesn’t know much about the world and especially Paris!! He loves trains and he has always wanted to take the Paris Express. He does have a suspicious nature about people wanting to suddenly become his friend? His reactions cause him to become very paranoid and unhinged. He’s really out of his element!! 3 ½* (I liked this movie)
82 min, Crime directed by Harold French with Claude Rains, Marta Toren, Marius Goring, Herbert Lom, Anouk Aimee, Felxi Aylmer, Ferdy Mayne, MacDonald Parke, Lucie Mannheim, Eric Pohlmann, Gibb McLaughlin, Michael Nightingale, Robin Alalouf, Joan St. Clair.
Note: Imdb 6.3 out of 10, Letterboxd average 3.2 out of 5*, Amazon 3.4* out of 5* with 8 reviews, Blu-ray.com 3 ½* with two ratings.
Special Note: Originally, actor Glenn Ford was to produce this film in 1950 with Hildegard Knef in the role of Michelle. The 100,000 guilders stolen from the company would equal about $26,320 in 1952 or $245,140 in 2017. Claude Rains started acting in 1920 and he was in many films until 1965. He was born November 10, 1889 in Clapham, London, England, UK. He died May 30, 1967 at the age of 77 in Laconia, New Hampshire.
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