The Man Who Watched Trains Go By

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
File:The-Man-Who-Watched-the-Trains-Go-By 79713fdd.jpg The Man Who Watched Trains Go By poster (U.S. title The Paris Express)
Directed by	Harold French
Produced by	David Berman Josef Shaftel Raymond Stross
Written by	Georges Simenon (novel) Paul Jerrico Harold French
Starring	Claude Rains Marius Goring Märta Torén
Music by	Benjamin Frankel
Cinematography	Otto Heller
Edited by	Vera Campbell Arthur H. Nadel
Distributed by	Eros Films (UK) MacDonald Pictures (USA)
Release dates	December 1952
Running time	82 minutes
Country	UK / USA
Language	English

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (1952) is a crime drama film, released in the United Kingdom with an all-European cast, including Claude Rains in the lead role. Rains plays the role of Kees Popinga, who is infatuated with Michele Rozier (Märta Torén). The film was released in the United States in 1953 under the title The Paris Express. It was directed by Harold French and based on the novel by Georges Simenon. This was Rains' seventh film in color, his first being Gold Is Where You Find It (1938).

Cast

• Claude Rains as Kees Popinga
• Marius Goring as Lucas
• Märta Torén as Michele Rozier
• Ferdy Mayne as Louis
• Herbert Lom as Julius de Koster, Jr.
• Lucie Mannheim as Maria Popinga
• Anouk Aimée as Jeanne
• Eric Pohlmann as Goin
• Felix Aylmer as Mr. Merkemans
• Gibb McLaughlin as Julius de Koster, Sr.
• Michael Nightingale as Popinga's Clerk

External links

• The Man Who Watched Trains Go By at IMDb