A motley assortment of well-to-do people get aboard the Streamline Express, a new luxurious train, New York to California, non-stop in 20 hours. Victor Jory wants to get Evelyn Venable back for his new stage production; she has just walked out on dress rehearsals and is traveling with Ralph Forbes to get married in Santa Barbara. Erin O'Brien-Moore wants to get husband Clay Clement back from Esther Ralston, who is being blackmailed by Sidney Blackmer.
And so forth. The actors put in good performances, particularly the first triangle in a comic plot that suggests the previous year's screwball 20TH CENTURY, but the whole movie has a cobbled-together feeling and the interior of the train is oddly commodious for something that has to fit on a rail line. The overall effect is of an ambitious but cheap-and-hasty production that is too erratic to maintain interest.
And so forth. The actors put in good performances, particularly the first triangle in a comic plot that suggests the previous year's screwball 20TH CENTURY, but the whole movie has a cobbled-together feeling and the interior of the train is oddly commodious for something that has to fit on a rail line. The overall effect is of an ambitious but cheap-and-hasty production that is too erratic to maintain interest.